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American Express Buys GE's Corporate-Card Unit: If, as some economists are saying, the economic downturn is going to hurt consumer spending more than business spending then American Express is making a good defensive move. AmEx is paying $1.1 billion for a General Electric unit that processes charge cards for corporations. American Express suffered...; Tags: General Electric Co., American Express Co., AmEx, Banking, Financial Services, Kevin Kelleher; Blog posts 2008-03-28
American Express Buys GE's Corporate-Card Unit: If, as some economists are saying, the economic downturn is going to hurt consumer spending more than business spending then American Express is making a good defensive move. AmEx is paying $1.1 billion for a General Electric unit that processes charge cards for corporations. American Express suffered...; Tags: Banking, Operational accounting, Kevin Kelleher, General Electric Co., Amex, American Express Co.; Blog posts 2008-03-28
AmEx to Sell Private Bank Unit Within Weeks: Source: Amex to Sell Private Bank Unit Within Weeks: Sourcesell a bank!Just curious.How do you sell a bank? anyone?yemi; Tags: Financial services, Sell Private Bank Unit, Amex; Discussion threads 2007-06-21
AmEx Approves Proposed Changes to Corporate Governance Rules: On September 13, 2002, the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) announced that its board of governors had approved proposed changes to its corporate governance rules. The rule changes are intended to increase disclosure requirements, strengthen board oversight and audit committee responsibility, and provide for increased shareholder rights for AMEX listed companies.; Tags: Corporate law, Reed Elsevier Inc., corporate governance, board, audit; White papers 2003-05-14
AmEx Approves Proposed Changes To Corporate Governance Rules: The American Stock Exchange (AMEX) announced that its board of governors had approved proposed changes to its corporate governance rules. The rule changes are intended to increase disclosure requirements, strengthen board oversight and audit committee responsibility, and provide for increased shareholder rights for AMEXlisted companies. Before the new rules become...; Tags: Corporate law, SEC, corporate governance, audit, board, Sarbanes-Oxley Act; White papers 2002-10-25

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FIX to CMS Adapter for Large I-Bank: A large investment bank with a presence in over 50 countries worldwide wanted to start trading options on the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), but was unable to do so due to non-compliance of its Financial Information Exchange (FIX) base infrastructure with the Common Message Switch (CMS). Infosys created a FIX...; Tags: adapter, Infosys Technologies Ltd., content management system, IT infrastructure, financial, information technology; Case studies
SEC Adopts New Rules Governing Determination and Disclosure of Audit Committee Financial Experts: This paper provides the description of the new rules that if the company has an audit committee financial expert, then the company must disclose the name of the expert and whether the person is independent of management. In determining whether an audit committee member is independent, domestic companies will need...; Tags: Financial accounting, Reed Elsevier Inc., audit committee, audit, NASD, New York Stock Exchange, independence, SEC, financial, security; White papers 2003-05-30
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: And Current Proposals by NYSE, AmEx and NASDAQ: The paper depicts that in response to the crisis, the U.S. Congress passed legislation, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that establishes many new requirements, including those governing the composition and responsibilities of audit committees. SEC rules implementing many provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley have just been finalized or proposed. Major national securities...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., New York Stock Exchange; White papers 2003-02-26
Code of Business Conduct and Ethics: In view of recent corporate practices that have resulted in a negative impact on the stock market and a loss of investor confidence in corporate America and public company disclosure, Congress passed, and the President signed into law on July 30, 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the "Sarbanes-Oxley Act"),1...; Tags: Policies and procedures, Sarbanes-Oxley, Business ethics, Regulatory compliance, Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corp., code of ethics, ethics, New York Stock Exchange, SEC, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., compliance, code of conduct, director, stock mark; White papers 2003-02-01
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002 And Current Proposals By NYSE, AmEx And Nasdaq: From the executive summary: ‘The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 establishes many new requirements including those governing the composition and responsibilities of audit committees. The paper provides general or summary information about aspects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The current and proposed rules, regulations, or standards of the U.S. Securities...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act; White papers 2003-01-01
Sarbanes-Oxley: What It Means to Nonprofits: More than 4 year has passed since Sarbanes-Oxley became law. While the law applies, for the most part, to publicly traded corporations, the term "Sarbanes-Oxley" has come to stand for much more than just the American Competitiveness and Corporate Accountability Act of 2002, which is the formal name for what...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, nonprofit, accountability, best practice; White papers 2004-05-20
Audit Committee Resource Guide: There were significant developments in the regulatory and legislative environment that will continue to affect management, audit committee members, and independent auditors of public companies during the years to come. The new requirements for audit committees are particularly important as the roles and responsibilities of audit committees and their members...; Tags: Financial accounting, Deloitte & Touche, audit committee, audit, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, board, environment; White papers 2003-02-01
ETFs Are Busting Out All Over: Growth in exchange traded funds (ETFs) as an asset class has exploded in the United States. ETFs are essentially index funds that are listed and traded on exchanges like stocks. ETFs can be used to go long or short an index, even on a down tick; they can be purchased...; Tags: Financial services, ETF, basket, investor, liquidity, mutual fund, commission, U.S., tax, asset, stock, sales; White papers 2001-01-01
Research Report: Real M & A for Real Companies: This paper talks about the Merger and Acquisition process. It states that the words like synergy, profitability, due diligence, discipline, and patience should be at the forefront of the mind of any company preparing to engage in M&A. First, it is vital to perform the necessary background research of both...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, M&A, diligence, merger, financial; White papers 2003-10-16
Mark-Up Pricing in Mergers and Acquisitions: This paper studies the premiums paid in successful tender offers and mergers involving NYSE and Amex-listed target firms from 1975-91 in relation to pre-announcement stock price runups. It has been conventional to measure corporate control premiums including the price runups that occur before the initial formal bid. There has been...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, M&A, stock price, merger, stock; White papers 1999-02-12
The Changing Landscape of the US Equity Options Market: The US Equity Options market is poised at an interesting point in time. The dominance of the traditional floor based options exchanges has been challenged by an all electronic options exchange, International Securities Exchanges (ISE) launched over three years ago. ISE has been growing steadily in a market which was...; Tags: Investment, Wipro Technologies, stock exchange, equity, stock; White papers 2004-01-07
Merrill Lynch Posts First Quarter Loss: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merrill Lynch & Co Inc (MER) on Thursday posted a first quarter loss, after taking several billion dollars of writedowns for subprime mortgages and other risky assets. The world's largest brokerage said the first quarter net loss...; Tags: Mortgages, Asset management, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., mortgage, asset, New York, net income, Thomson Reuters Corp.; News items 2008-04-17
Index Funds: Made from Concentrate: This article states that whether large cap U.S. equity index funds really very different? In this article, three well known index funds: Vanguard Index 500, Schwab 1000, and Vanguard Total Stock Index are considered. As a reminder, the Vanguard Index 500 seeks to replicate the performance of the Standard &...; Tags: Performance management, Investment, FinancialCounsel.com Inc., Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., equity, S&P 500, market capitalization, performance, U.S., stock, job; White papers 2002-08-01
Northwest Leads Airline Shares Higher on Oil Drop: CHICAGO (Reuters) - Airline shares rocketed higher on Tuesday, led by Northwest Airlines (NWA), on a sharp decline in the price of crude oil, which is directly linked to the price of jet fuel. Northwest stock gained 17.5 percent to $8.95 on the...; Tags: Northwest Airlines Corp., Delta Air Lines Inc., New York Stock Exchange, oil, Chicago, Porter five forces, bankruptcy, Thomson Reuters Corp., merger, stock; News items 2008-04-29
SEC Adopts Final Rules Regarding Code Of Conduct For Senior Financial Officers: On January 23, 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released final rules implementing Section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the Act). In general, Section 406 requires the SEC to enact rules requiring public companies to disclose whether they have adopted codes of ethics for their respective senior...; Tags: Policies and procedures, Sarbanes-Oxley, Business ethics, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, financial officer, code of ethics, SEC, ethics, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., code of conduct, corporate governance, compliance; White papers 2003-02-07