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19 unusual facts about Finance


BiblioVault

Development began in late 2001 under the auspices of the University of Chicago Press, with financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Certificate in Financial Studies

The Certificate in Financial Studies is produced by the Institute of Financial Services (IFS) and can be followed by the Diploma in Financial Studies if desired.

Complex and adaptive systems laboratory

Groups in this cluster develop and apply methods to a broad range of problem domains including Finance, Computer Science, Design, Architecture, Music, Sound Synthesis, Bioinformatics, Engineering and Telecommunications.

Diploma of Financial Studies

The Diploma in Financial Studies is produced by the Institute of Financial Services (IFS).

EFPConsulting

EFPC was formed by the amalgamation of two organisations, one, specialists in Framework Program technical aspects, and the other, experts in Framework program financial aspects.

Ekonomikum

The Ekonomikum serves the Uppsala University a multidisciplinary centre specialized in economics and financial studies, information science, and human geography.

Florida Atlantic University College of Business

The college's Department of Finance was ranked 35th in the world based on a compilation of published research in 16 core financial journals and 2nd in the nation for published research in financial education.

Gustave Sap

Sap was Minister of public work and of agriculture and tradespeople (1932–1934), Minister of Finance (1934), Minister of economy and tradespeople (1939–1940) in the government of Hubert Pierlot.

Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton

Lord Congleton was also the author of several volumes and pamphlets on matters connected with financial questions, the most important being that On Financial Reform, published in 1830.

Hong San See

Called Nan Ming School, it was closed after ten years when it ran into financial difficulties.

Keith Jayne

Typecasting (often as a yokel) persuaded Keith to study for a certificate in Finance and Investment.

Nikolay Alexandrovich Milyutin

After the revolution Milyutin held various executive appointments in Communist Russia related to social security, central planning and finance; reaching that of Commissar of Finance of the RSFSR in 1924–1929.

Rajasthan Accounts Service

Balveer Singh Gothwal is presently GM Finance Rajasthan State Food and Civil Supply Corporation

RTL Z

RTL Z is a Dutch business and financial news television channel broadcast on RTL 7 during the workweek from 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM (CET).

Sprott School of Business

To earn a Bachelor of Commerce degree students must demonstrate proficient knowledge in the following base level courses: Marketing, Human Resources, Information Systems, Statistics, Finance, Economics, Ethics, Strategic Management, Organizational Theory, Organizational Behaviour, and Financial and Managerial Accounting.

It covers Investments, Corporate Finance, Mergers and acquisitions, Derivatives, and a prep course for writing finance based research reports.

Suchart Chaovisith

He transferred to the Ministry of Finance in 1972, where he held a number of positions.

Warner, Queensland

Post-2000 establishments in Warner include the Warner Lakes housing estate on 206 hectares of land previously used for potato farming, and a retail and commerce estate on the corner of Samsonvale Road and Old North Road which is the location of the first financial institution established in Warner, The Bank of Queensland.

Westmount, London, Ontario

The top three occupations of Westmount residents are: Sales and Service occupations, Business & Finance, and Administration.


A. Ralph Mollis

Mollis attended St. Anselm College and the Southern New England School of Law, but he left law school to pursue a career in finance with LAMCO Pension and Investment Advisory Firm, simultaneously serving as Town Councilman of North Providence from 1986 until 1996.

Abdul W. Haqiqi

Upon completing his studies in the United States, Haqiqi served in Afghan government positions including senior adviser to Mohammad Daoud Khan's Vice President and assumed the role of the President of State-Owned Enterprises in the Ministry of Finance.

Abel Guobadia

Later in 1986, the Colonel John Mark Inienger military administration appointed him the Bendel State Commissioner of Finance and Economic Planning.

American Society of Military Comptrollers

Today, the organization promotes professional development in general financial management, accounting and finance, budgeting, resource management, auditing, statistics and cost analysis, management analysis, manpower management, program analysis, acquisition management, and comptroller related administrative support activities.

Argentine legislative election, 1918

Congress rejected Yrigoyen's policy of neutrality, and approved a series of measures in support of the Allied Powers; indeed, the only significant presidential bill supported by Congress during the 1916-18 term was a modest, 5 percent export tariff enacted to finance needed rural public works.

Banking in Vietnam

In 1987 the bank also agreed to establish a finance company in Tokyo in partnership with a Japanese bank.

Barefoot Investor

A CNBC produced program, The Barefoot Investor is a half hour show about finance, hosted by Scott Pape.

Border Security: Australia's Front Line

The show follows the work of officers of Australian Customs and Border Protection, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship as they enforce Australian customs, quarantine, immigration and finance laws.

Buchtel Community Learning Center

Buchtel High School opened in 1931 and is named after Akron industrialist and philanthropist John R. Buchtel, who helped to organize and finance a number of early Akron firms, including the Goodrich Corporation.

Capital Fund Management

Founded in 1991 by Jean-Pierre Aguilar, CFM merged in 2000 with Science & Finance the research company founded in 1994 by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud.

Central Financial Work Commission

Its operations were supervised by Executive Deputy Secretary Yan Haiwang, and it regularly reported directly to its head, CFCW Secretary Wen Jiabao, who concurrently served as a member of the Politburo and as vice-premier in charge of work on finance.

César Batiz

On February 10, 2012, Batiz reported that Jose Rojas, former Venezuelan finance minister and former Venezuelan representative to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, had denied any connection to a “fraudulent scheme” engineered by Venezuelan-American financier Illaramendi Francisco and involving funds from Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA).

Chalongphob Sussangkarn

Chalongphob Sussangkarn was the President of the Thailand Development Research Institute and later served as Minister of Finance in Surayud Chulanont's military junta.

Colin Meads

He is a frequent public speaker at events, and still appears in a number of television spots, endorsing Honda ATVs, Bob Charles' Deer Velvet, lifejacket safety awareness, Provincial Finance and Mastercard.

Colm Kearney

After serving as an economic advisor to the Australian government he took up the position of Professor of Finance and Economics at the University of Technology, Sydney, and continued with his research supported by a number of Australian Research Council awards.

Kearney has broad policy and consulting experience, serving as Senior Economic Advisor to Australian Federal Treasurer (Ministers for Finance) John Kerin and Federal Finance Minister Ralph Willis in the early 1990s.

Damianos Kyriazis

He was a Member of Parliament and in 1932 he briefly became Minister of Finance.

Economy of Istanbul

Levent and Maslak financial districts are home to the headquarters of Turkey's largest companies and banks, as well as the local headquarters of global giants of the financial sector such as Citibank, Merrill Lynch, J. P. Morgan, HSBC, ABN Amro, Fortis, ING Bank, BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Banca di Roma, UniCredit, WestLB, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, and many others.

Erwin Planck

In August 1939, a group including Prussian Finance Minister Johannes Popitz, Planck, and Reichsbank president Hjalmar Schacht approached General Georg Thomas, head of the Defence Economy and Armament Office asking him to do something to thwart the outbreak of the forthcoming war.

Fair Credit Reporting Act

Typically, these are creditors, with which a consumer has some sort of credit agreement (such as credit card companies, auto finance companies and mortgage banking institutions).

Frances Lankin

Previously a defender of universal free drug coverage for senior citizens, she now supported Finance Minister Floyd Laughren's introduction of user fees.

George Mavrikos

He received international attention in February 2012 when during the parliamentary debate he threw his copy of the draft of the austerity bill at the finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos.

Henry C. Morrison

Morrison could not finance his own education, but because he showed success in his academic work, a local banker raised money and financed his education at Dartmouth College.

Indian Institute of Banking and Finance

The Institute is having collaboration arrangements with reputed international bodies like Canadian Institute of Bankers; Securities Institute, Australia; World Bank, Washington; American Bankers Association and Asian Institute of Management, Manila and IIMs / XLRI, India for offering courses and CPD programmes to banking and finance professionals.

Jacek Rostowski

From 1989 to 1991 during Poland’s great economic transformation following the fall of communism, Vincent-Rostowski was an advisor to the Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Leszek Balcerowicz.

Jeanne Sahadi

She has been with CNNMoney.com since 1998, and has been a frequent guest on its business and personal finance shows as well as on CNNRadio and its affiliates.

Jules Regnault

Murad Taqqu 2001 "Bachelier and his Times: A Conversation with Bernard Bru", Finance and Stochastics 5: 3-32.

LIBT at Brunel University

LIBT students complete a one or two-year university transfer programme and, subject to meeting the required progression criteria, transfer into the second year of Brunel University’s three-year undergraduate BSc degree programmes in Business & Management, Information Systems & Computing and Economics & Finance.

Lipper average

Lipper Average also known as Lipper Index are a series of indices that establish benchmarks to measure the performance of a portfolio, or of various mutual funds and exchange-traded funds produced by Lipper Analytical Services.

Master of Business Systems

Important application domains of Business Systems may be investigated in courses like enterprise resource planning, E-Commerce, SAP and e-business networking, industrial information systems, or electronic finance/electronic banking, web security, simulation models etc.

Matt Othick

With his brother, Trent, Othick helped finance the Magnolia Pictures film Yonkers Joe, on which he is listed as an executive producer.

Mayuri Kango

She later moved to New York with her husband and got an MBA in marketing and finance from City University of New York-Baruch College - Zicklin School of Business.

Nelson George

He first got involved in film when, in 1986, he helped to finance director Spike Lee's debut feature She's Gotta Have It.

Old Scona Academic High School

Numerous student-run clubs are available at Old Scona Academic, such as Multicultural Club, Speech & Debate Club, Go Club, Business/Finance Club, Hip Hop Club, Bollywood club, Reading Buddies, and Discussion Club.

Patrick Honohan

Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Finance Minister Michael Noonan, Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore and Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin were reportedly furious with Prof Honohan's failure to close the deal as had been expected.

Paul Bernd Spahn

After retirement in 2005 he served as Macro Fiscal Advisor to the Minister of Finance and Treasury of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and became the founding Executive Director of the House of Finance of Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

Przegląd

It has been critical of the policies of all post-communist governments, and is opposed to the monetarist policies that were instituted by Polish economist and finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz.

Richard John Brandes

He was the founder and CEO of Belgravia Capital, a middle market commercial finance and real estate mortgage bank which was acquired by the Finova Group (ticker symbol: FNV) in 1997.

Short squeeze

Short squeezes are more likely to occur in stocks with small market capitalization and small floats, although can involve large stocks and billions of dollars, as happened in October 2008 when a short squeeze temporarily drove the shares of Volkswagen on the Xetra DAX from 210.85 to over €1000 in less than two days, briefly making it the most valuable company in the world.

Skymark Airlines

On 8 November 2010 Skymark announced negotiations with Airbus for an order of four Airbus A380 aircraft and two options, making it the first Japanese airline to order the type.

Socialism in India

Elected in 1991, the government of Narasimha Rao introduced economic liberalisation with the support of finance minister Manmohan Singh, the current prime minister of India.

Susan Hutchison

Hutchison serves as an officer of the following boards: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC), Finance Chair (present) of Young Life International, Vice Chair (present) All-Star Orchestra, Vice President (present) and Chair (2006-2009) Seattle Symphony, and on the following boards: Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Children's Hospital Foundation, Discovery Institute, and Salvation Army.

United States Senate Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth

The Senate Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth is one of the six subcommittees within the Senate Committee on Finance, having been created on February 16, 2011, during the 111th Congress.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund

(VVMF), was a non-profit organization established on April 27, 1979, by Jan Scruggs, Jack Wheeler, and several other Vietnam War veterans, finance the construction of a memorial to those Americans who died or were killed during the Vietnam War.

Washoe County School District

Prior to his service in the field of education, Mr. Martinez served as a director of finance and technology at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago and as an audit manager at both Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Wayne Ormond

Ormond has now expanded into other services including Refund Financial Planning, Refund Real Estate, Refund Property Investment and Refund Finance & Leasing.

Wenner-Gren Center

The Center is named after the businessman Axel Wenner-Gren, who donated funds to finance its construction, after Nobel Prize winner Hugo Theorell had lobbied for having the housing need of visiting scientists addressed.