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Japanese work environment

Those earning the highest wages are permanent workers in firms having more than thirty employees and those workers in finance, real estate, public service, petroleum, publishing, and emerging high-technology industries earned the highest wages.


Aga Khan Development Network

The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development with its affiliates, the Tourism Promotion Services, Industrial Promotion Services, and Financial Services, seek to strengthen the role of the private sector in developing countries by supporting private sector initiatives in the development process.

Financial Ombudsman Service

The United Kingdom's Financial Ombudsman Service is an ombudsman established in 2001 as a result of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to help settle disputes between consumers and UK-based businesses providing financial services, such as banks, building societies, insurance companies, investment firms, financial advisers and finance companies.

FNB Corporation

FNB Corporation is a financial services corporation based in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, which operates banks under the name First National Bank in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Fung Chi-kin

He was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for Financial Services in 1998 and 2000, substituting for Chim Pui-chung who was jailed for conspiring to forge documents and was impeached and disqualified as a legislator by Legco.

HSBC Finance

The techniques and experience of HSBC Finance Corporation are being increasingly exported to other HSBC markets, for example, the establishment of Proa by HSBC Bank Argentina, and new business being established in Poland by HSBC Bank Polska.

ING Unsung Heroes

The program is run by the U.S. Financial Services division of global financial services company ING Group (ING).

MF Global

MF Global traces its roots to the sugar trading business started by James Man in England in 1783, which evolved into broader commodities trading before its later transformation into a financial services business during the 1980s focused on commodity futures trading.

NASDAQ OMX Group

is an American multinational financial services corporation that owns and operates the NASDAQ stock market and eight European stock exchanges in the Nordic and Baltic regions and Armenia under the NASDAQ OMX banner.

OpenPages

OpenPages was a Waltham, Massachusetts-based company providing Governance, Risk, and Compliance software and services to enterprise customers primarily in the financial services industry.

Permira

Permira specialises in five sectors: Consumer, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrials and TMT (Technology, Media, Telecommunications).

Relationship-based pricing

Financial services industry analysts like Celent and TowerGroup endorse relationship-based pricing to improve profitability.


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ABCH

The trading symbol for BancABC, a financial services provider in Central and Southern Africa, on the Botswana Stock Exchange and Zimbabwe Stock Exchange

Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development

Its major investments include the Financial Services, Industrial Promotion Services (IPS) and Tourism Promotion Services (TPS).

Albert Isola

He later became a Government Minister for Financial Services and Gaming after becoming elected to Parliament in the 2013 by-election.

BANIF

Banif Financial Group a Portuguese financial services company originally from Funchal

Benjamin P. Ablao, Jr.

While working in a financial services company in 2001, Ablao met director Anthony Spadaccini.

Broker Dealer Exchange

BDX is mostly involved in Mergers and Acquisitions in the small to middle market Broker-dealer space, although it does have a business of introducing buyers and sellers of other financial services assets, e.g. individual brokerage and financial planning practices, books of business, trading platforms, and "shell" Broker Dealers.

California Bank and Trust

The bank has been recognized by Greenwich Associates, a leading global financial services research and consulting firm, which has awarded California Bank & Trust 13 Excellence Awards for small business and middle market banking as a part of Zions Bancorporation.

Country Calendar

Previous sponsors have included The National Bank, financial services company AMP and Tux dog biscuits.

Databank Group

Databank is a financial services provider and a brokerage ffirm with its headquarters in Accra, Ghana.

David Schweikert

In December 2012, Schweikert learned from news reports that he was going to lose his seat on the Committee on Financial Services for the 113th United States Congress; he joined Justin Amash of Michigan and Tim Huelskamp of Kansas in a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, demanding to know why they had lost their "plum" committee posts.

Digital Insight

On August 1, 2013 Thoma Bravo completed the acquisition of Intuit Financial Services ($1.025 billion) and it has returned to its old name of Digital Insight.

Finance Secretary

The Ministry of Finance is composed of five departments: the Department of Economic Affairs, the Department of Revenue, the Department of Expenditure, the Department of Financial Services and Department of Disinvestment.

First National Bank of Tanzania

The bank is a subsidiary of the First Rand Group, a large financial services provider, with headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa.

FirstMerit Corporation

FirstMerit Corporation is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Akron, Ohio, with assets of approximately $24.1 billion as of close of business September 30, 2013, and 412 banking offices and 440 ATM locations in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Pennsylvania.

Foster School of Business

Yoshihiko Miyauchi, chairman and CEO of Japanese financial services group ORIX Corp

G. Ware Travelstead

Travelstead managed to persuade the London Docklands Development Corporation and the Government of Margaret Thatcher that a new financial services district of ten million square feet, located at the old West India Docks, was viable.

Gilbert Licudi

In 2013, after the by-election, the Financial Services and Gaming portfolios were transferred to the new elected minister, Albert Isola.

GNW

Genworth Financial, an international financial services organization (GNW on the NYSE)

Hamilton Mall

Financial services include an Executive Cash Service Center and various Bank of America ATMs.

Hanzawa Naoki

The hotel suffered a loss of 12 billion yen and with an FSA (Financial Services Agency) inspection coming up, the bank may potentially have to provide a loan loss provision of 150 billion yen should Iseshima Hotel be labelled bankrupt.

Harish Fabiani

It is behind some of the successful names in the Indian corporate circle in as varied sectors such as IT, financial services and media – investments include Nimbus, AsiaNet Satellite communicartions, TV18, Edelweiss Capital and Indiabulls.

HFC Bank

HSBC Finance - A financial services company and a member of the HSBC Group.

HSBC Bank Egypt

HSBC Bank Egypt SAE is a multinational bank in Egypt, providing a wide range of banking and related financial services through a network of 100 branches and 20 mini bank units in Cairo, Alexandria, Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada, Borg El Arab and 6th of October City.

Infinity Business School

Some companies that visit campus include Deutsche Bank, HDFC Ltd., CB Richard Ellis, McCann Erickson, Heidrick & Struggles KMC, ICICI Prudential Asset Management, Kotak Group, Cox & Kings, and Emkay Global Financial Services.

Irreligion in Australia

Fifteen declined to comment, ten said they were "Christian" and three stated that they were atheists: health minister Nicola Roxon, defence personnel minister Greg Combet and financial services minister Chris Bowen.

John Hancock Insurance

In 2000, led by David F. D'Alessandro, the company "demutualized", meaning that "John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company" formally ceased to exist, and a new company named "John Hancock Financial Services, Inc." came into existence.

Ken Dulieu

Upon invitation, from 2002 to 2010, he acted as non executive Director and chair of the Remuneration and Nominations Committees of previously Alternative Investment Market listed Vantis plc, an accountancy and financial services business.

Leeds Building Society

On 1 August 2006, following approval by the Mercantile members and confirmation by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), Leeds Building Society merged with Mercantile Building Society.

Lloyd Dorfman

Following the £440m acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services business in March 2001, the Travelex Group became the world's largest non-bank foreign exchange business.

Malcolm Knight

He currently serves on the Boards of the International Valuation Standards Council and of the Global Risk Institute in Financial Services (Toronto), and he is a member of the International Advisory Councils of the Risk Management Institute of the University of Singapore and the International Centre for Financial Regulation (London).

Margarita Prentice

In a series of articles attacking Prentice, the Seattle Stranger dubbed her "Senator MoneyTree" because of her acceptance of contributions from Moneytree, a financial services company founded and headquartered in her district.

Maria Ramos

She would later become chief executive of that country's state-owned transportation company Transnet, and in 2009 was appointed Group CEO of the Barclays PLC subsidiary Absa, one of South Africa's largest financial services companies.

Mark Loughridge

He was also financial services manager for IBM's lab in Hursley, England.

Mawarid Finance

Mawarid acquired Al Jazeera Financial Services, a private equity company specializing in financial intermediation and investment in Shari'a-compliant stocks on both ADX and DFM.

Merchant service

Merchant services, a category of financial services relating to business

Myeong-dong

Major insurance, securities, financial services companies, and investment firms with headquarters in Myeongdong include Citibank, SK Corporation, Kookmin Bank, Korea Exchange Bank, Lone Star Funds, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, AIG Korea Insurance, Hana Bank, and HSBC.

Nathan Kirsh

Nathan Kirsh left South Africa permanently for Swaziland in 1986 after a business partnership between his company, Kirsh Industries, and Sanlam, one of South Africa’s leading financial services groups, unravelled.

Never Stop Doing What You Love

Never Stop Doing What You Love is a not-for-resale compilation of various Paul McCartney and Wings songs created for the employees and clients of Fidelity Investments, a company in the financial services industry.

Peter Dawkins

Pete Dawkins, Vice Chairman of the CitiGroup Private Bank and former Chairman/CEO of Primerica Financial Services, Inc.

Representative example

The representative example must be provided when any financial services provider advertising a product, whether it is a credit card, loan or mortgage.

Until 2010, any financial services provider advertising a product in the UK, whether it is a credit card, loan or mortgage, have had to comply with the Consumer Credit (Advertisement) Regulations 2004 (2004 Regulations).

Scott Rothbort

Prior to working at Merrill Lynch, within the financial services industry he worked for County Nat West Securities and Morgan Stanley, where he had international assignments in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and London.

SHUAA Capital

SHUAA Capital (DFM: SHUAA), is a Dubai-based financial services provider.

SolarEdge

The company is venture capital backed and investors include GE Energy Financial Services, Lightspeed Venture Partners, ORR Partners, Genesis Partners, Walden International, Vertex Venture Capital, JP Asia Capital and Opus Capital Ventures.

Synovus Centre

Synovus Centre is an office building in Downtown Columbus, Georgia which serves as the headquarters of regional banking and financial services company Synovus.

Walburg, Texas

The former bank now houses another financial services organization, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.

William C. Stone

Examples include: optimization of portfolios which are subject to constraints; defining technology solutions to the fiduciary responsibilities in financial services; efficient organizational platforms; adroit uses of cutting edge technology; identifying and acting on market inefficiencies; and employing dynamic financial analysis in the property casualty industry.