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Seize the pay

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... excessive executive pay at companies that have received government bail-outs. In the US, local newspapers reported US President Obama's missive for the Treasury to block $165 million in bonuses going towards AIG staff.

SimCorp upgrades risk mgmt tech

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... and back that offers our clients the possibility to improve their risk management," said Leen Kuijken, SimCorp vice president of product management.

AIG: 100 per cent GFC proof

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... US$165 million in extra pay. How do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat?' US President Barack Obama might be regretting that he did not nationalise American International Group - which is turning out to be the ...

Developing Asia worst hit

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... countries, by now no region or country is insulated. I am afraid things may get worse before they get better," said ADB president Haruhiko Kuroda. "However, I remain confident that Asia will be one of the first regions to emerge from it, and it will ...

Spring springs on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... profitable in the first two months of 2009 following five consecutive quarters of losses. Is this, in the words of US President Obama, 'the beginning of the end?' Or another sucker's rally? The answer is perhaps somewhere in between. Just as I warned ...

AFA unveils policy committee

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... support consumers, understanding documentation flow, and addressing superannuation and insurance issues. Jim Taggart, AFA president, said the AFA has nominated representation to Government as one of it's key priorities over the coming few years. "It's ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... reportedly was so horrified that it gave them the money. Amid these doom and gloom, market's dismissed European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet's press conference in Basel, Switzerland. Monsieur Trichet stated that, 'We have a number of elements ...

OTC derivative platforms need upgrade: report

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... human resources to support rising trading volumes, according to a new report. Neil Wright, State Street senior vice president and product manager for derivatives servicing, said legacy systems might not be able to adequately provide risk management and ...

Stanford slashes costs to save endowment

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... has laid off staff, instituted hiring freezes and reduced faculty searches. Top administrators, including Etchemendy, President John Hennessy, and the deans of all seven schools, have taken pay cuts of 5 to 10 percent.

Let them have soup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... of 2008 -- the highest since record began in 1972. Loans in foreclosure rose to a record 3.3 per cent. Ironically, US President Obama's new acronym the HASP or Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan would only tend to increase these delinquencies. ...