Sixty-one million households use Internet banking today and two-thirds of those users would switch financial institutions (FIs) for a better online banking solution. Despite the growing importance of Internet banking to attract and retain high-value customers, many FIs still rely on first-generation systems that lack the service levels and features...

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Citigroup and Bank of America return to profits in the latest quarter, providing signs of financial recuperation. ...

good financial system is essential for a well-functioning economy. A good financial system allocates capital to its most productive use, and manages risk in ways that enable higher risk activities to be undertaken for higher return. By reducing risks faced by individuals and firms, e.g. through insurance products, a good financial system contribut...

Finance is powerful. As the last few years demonstrate, financial innovations can be used as tools of economic destruction. But the last few centuries demonstrate that financial innovation is crucial, indeed indispensable, for sustained economic growth and prosperity. ...

A few years ago America,s sophisticated financial system was hailed as a pillar of its economic prowess. The geeks on Wall Street and their whizzy new products symbolised the success of American capitalism just as much as the geeks in Silicon Valley....

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Even as the Obama administration stepped up efforts to aid homeowners facing foreclosure, data released Friday indicated that the housing crisis might finally have stopped getting worse....

WASHINGTON — In raising the interest rate it charges banks for short-term loans, the Federal Reserve set the stage on Thursday for the day when the recovering economy will lead it to begin a broader campaign to tighten monetary policy...

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York has decided to remove his fortune from a private equity firm founded by his longtime friend, 10 months after that firm became embroiled in a scandal involving the state pension fund. ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street could keep rallying after notching its best week this year if Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gives a reassuring assessment of the recovery and retail earnings show improvement....

General Electric,s overall work force fell by about 6 percent worldwide in 2009 as it struggled to deal with the effects of the deep recession and financial crisis, according to a company regulatory filing Friday. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chinese farm exports are set to become a greater source of trade tension as China boosts its production and becomes a bigger player in world markets for labor-intensive crops, a U.S. agricultural economist said on Friday. ...

NEW YORK/SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve on Friday poured more cold water on speculation that a surprise rise in its emergency lending rate signaled it was moving faster to rein in its easy money policies. ...

WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve seems likely to keep interest rates at record lows for several more months after news Friday that consumer prices excluding food and energy fell in January. ...

CONSUMER PRICES: Consumer inflation rose a small 0.2 percent in January, led by a jump in gasoline and other energy products. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Consumer prices edged higher in January, while prices excluding food and energy fell for the first time in 27 years, supporting the Federal Reserves contention it would keep its benchmark interest rate low for an "extended period." ...

NEW YORK – The dollar extended its rise Friday, a day after the Federal Reserve bumped up the rate that banks must pay for emergency loans. Analysts said the rate hike was a sign of the central banks confidence in the financial sector...

ATHENS, Greece — Greece has replaced the head of its debt management agency just as the country finds itself in the spotlight for allegedly hiding the size of its debt problem...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has created a Major Economic Crimes Bureau as he and other high-profile investigators redouble their efforts to fight financial fraud....

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The Greek crisis is about more than the single currency. It may result in wider economic turmoil and greater EU integration...

On a sunny Tuesday morning, Leeds city centre is bustling, giving little indication that the economy is in the doldrums and that unemployment continues to rise. Shoppers criss-cross the pedestrianised streets visiting budget fashion outlets such as Primark and TK Maxx, while others head for the ritzy five-floor Harvey Nichols — the first branch of ...

Bustling market scenes — complete with crowds of buyers and sellers, soothsayers and moneylenders — are the stuff of Shakespeare plays. ...

Japan,s economy grew faster-than-expected in the fourth quarter with a stimulus-fuelled rebound in domestic demand and corporate investment. ...

The cost of insuring Dubai’s debt rose to its highest level in almost a year yesterday after news that Dubai World was considering offering its creditors 60 per cent of their money back, with repayments delayed until 2017...

Property companies are preparing to turn top earners into self-employed partners to minimise the impact of the Governments impending higher tax regime...

The consumer prices index has surged to an annual rate of 3.5 per cent — an increase of 2.9 per cent from December ...

Cazenove, the Queen’s stockbroker, was embroiled in a criminal insider dealing scandal yesterday after it was alleged that a former partner made almost £300,000 trading on confidential leaks from within the 187-year-old company....

Times Online The London Philharmonic Orchestra has won a High Court judgment for £2.3 million against a financial director who allegedly embezzled its funds. The sum initially claimed by the orchestra was £357,000, but that amount was increased to £2.3 million on 3 February...

Honor excellence in the anti-fraud profession by nominating an ACFE colleague and chapter for the following awards: ...

OSLO (Reuters) -– Norway Yara agreed to buy Terra Industries for $4.1 billion to create the worlds...

Toyota Motor Corp. is considering ways to bolster procedures for checking the quality and reliability of cars and to do more to publicize incremental changes to cars already on the market. ...

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Toyota Motor Corp. is considering ways to bolster procedures for checking the quality and...

Islamabad, Oct 17 While the Pakistan Government is struggling with internal strife and numerous economic setbacks, a report submitted to President Asif Ali Zardari portrays a different picture of the country. According to the report submitted by Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP), the Government had spent atrocious amounts of money on some point...

LONDON (AP) -- World stock markets rose Monday after the Group of 20 leading rich and developing countries agreed to maintain their stimulus measures in the wake of weak U.S. employment figures. ...

Portland Public Schools are not meeting state and federal standards for teaching students who don’t speak English at home. Rob Manning reports on the state audit, out today (Tuesday). ...

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XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is a novel way of electronic communication of business and financial data which is revolutionizing business reporting around the world and is immense utility to the capital markets and the investing community. It provides major benefits in the preparation, analysis and communication of business informat...

Celebrating Sixty year of historic run and this year as ICAI’s Diamond Jubilee Year, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) organized a Diamond Jubilee Conference for its members with a theme “Professionalism as a Tool to Economic Growth" at Durbar Hall, Hotel Taj Palace, Sardar Patel Marg, New Delhi on July 11, 2009. ...

The ICAEW questions the complexity of UK tax law following the publication of Finance Act 2009, which includes a record breaking 61 Schedules and is the fifth longest Finance Act ever. ...

In a letter to the European Commission (EC), the ICAEW has supported its decision to spend more time reviewing the Accounting Directives...

The ICAEW has launched their online student community for ACA and Certificate in Finance, Accounting and Business students worldwide....

Confidence among business professionals has moved into positive territory for the first time in two years, providing further evidence of an improving UK economy. The latest ICAEW UK Business Confidence Monitor (BCM) shows a record rise in confidence from -28.2 to +4.8, the highest since Q3, 2007. Based on this, the ICAEW predicts that GDP will rise...

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(New York/July 10, 2009) - The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and its Small and Medium Practices (SMP) Committee welcome the release of the International Financial Reporting Standard for Small and Medium-sized Entities (IFRS for SMEs) by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). IFAC encourages its 157 member organization...

New York/August 3, 2009) - To assist auditors worldwide in implementing the clarified Inte...