While there are a number of ways in which eLance can reduce disintermediation, it must face the reality that there will always be revenue leakage and the cost of minimizing it will very likely outweigh the benefits. This point has significant implica While there are a...
Although relatively small revenue gains last year show that consolidation among the world's largest property/casualty insurance brokers has subsided, brokers' most sweeping evolutionary changes may still lie ahead. Against a backdrop of mediocre q Although relatively small revenue gains last year show that...
OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A Excellent and issuer credit ratings of "a" for RBC Life Insurance Company RBC Life (Mississauga, Ontario) and RBC Insurance Group's RBC Insurance U.S. life insurance entity, Liberty Life Insurance Company Liberty Life (Greenville,...
DALLAS -- eGistics, Inc., a leading provider of hosted document management solutions, announced that Executive Vice President Gary Provo will deliver a presentation on the evolving payments landscape at the FSTC Annual Conference this morning. In addition, Provo will participate on a panel of banking industry experts...
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- Westamerica Bancorporation (Nasdaq:WABC) is scheduled to participate in the Fox-Pitt Kelton Small & Mid-Cap Bank and Insurance Conference to be held June 17-18, 2008 at the Omni Berkshire in New York City. David L. Payne, Chairman, President and CEO, will make...
OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating FSR to B Fair from B+ Good and issuer credit rating ICR to "bb+" from "bbb-" of Polish Roman Catholic Union of America PRCUA (Chicago, IL). The outlook for both ratings has been revised to...
Moody's Investors Service has today assigned a C- bank financial strength rating ("BFSR") to Faroese bank P/F Foroya Bankias well as A3 long-term and Prime-2 short-term local and foreign currency deposit ratings. The outlooks on all ratings are stable. Foroya Banki's C- BFSR,...
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has affirmed the Issuer Default Rating IDR of Protective Life Corp. (NYSE:PL) at 'A' and its senior debt ratings at 'A-'. In addition, Fitch has affirmed PL's trust preferred ratings at 'BBB+' and the insurer financial strength IFS at 'AA-' and other ratings of PL's...
Byline: Jonah Bloom Agencies have long fantasized about owning their intellectual property. Instead of simply handing over a potentially business-changing idea to a marketer, shops imagine that they might own and continue to profit from it. ...
Byline: Pete Burtonshaw Many readers will have attended the same conferences as I in the past couple of years, where there has been much discussion around wrap platforms. Interestingly, if you google 'wrap platform' it will return around 26,000 references;...
RockBlocks Group, Inc.: [TABLE OMITTED] About RockBlocks Group, Inc. RockBlocks[R] is the leading global trade management solution for retailers serving the largest, most profitable and fastest growing retailers worldwide. RockBlocks' Web-based, collaborative platform enables retailers to disintermediate, accelerate, automate, and optimize their supply chain, from product...
Byline: Steve Rubel It wasn't the most-talked-about session at the Interactive Advertising Bureau Annual Meeting last week in Phoenix, but it should have been. In a series of fascinating frames peppered with statistics, Christopher Vollmer from...
Byline: Simon Dumenco Last week, once again, I found myself wondering why I like what I like-why any of us likes what we like. Part of it had to do with Super Tuesday-a referendum, of course, not...
Byline: Peter Guest Given their merger's rocky beginning, the meshing of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's systems with those of its partner, the Chicago Board of Trade, perhaps should have been more complex. Although it was more than nine months between...
Byline: Henry Smith Large asset managers face a future as uncertain as present market conditions. Recent investment industry reports predict that they will lose out to a growing number of specialist fund groups over the next decade as institutional investors...
According to a recently published report from Moody's Investors Service, 1H08 will be the most challenging funding period for Korean banks. While the report acknowledges that liquidity in the system appears to be sufficient, refinancing costs will be substantially higher thereby...
Moody's Investors Service has today assigned a C bank financial strength rating ("BFSR") to the Danish regional bank Fionia Bank A/S as well as long-term and short-term local and foreign currency deposit ratings of A1/Prime-1. The outlooks on all ratings are stable. Fionia...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At a time when credit cards are still a big source of bank revenue despite waning consumer confidence, a vexed Congress, and other pressures, some in the industry are looking at a public MasterCard and soon-to-follow Visa and...
OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength ratings FSR of A++ Superior and issuer credit ratings ICR of "aaa" of United Services Automobile Association USAA (San Antonio, TX) and its property/casualty and life/health subsidiaries. Concurrently, A.M. Best has affirmed the debt rating of...
It has been 10 years since management guru John Naisbitt coined the term "megatrends." His research found that throughout history many successful companies, and even entire industries, had been derailed by their failure to spot major trends in the marketplace that threatened their business model. A disconcerting number of megatrends...
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