assets of $170.8 billion on March 31, 2011, is one of the nation’s largest financial services holding companies. Through its flagship subsidiary, SunTrust Bank, the company provides deposit, credit, trust, and investment services to a broad range of retail, business, and institutional clients. Other subsidiaries provide mortgage banking, brokerage, investment management, equipment leasing, and investment banking services. Atlanta-based SunTrust enjoys leading positions in some of the most attractive
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sluggish the industrial growth as well as economic growth of the country. Inspite of all these hindrance the growth of leasing companies is a significant indication of our bright prospects. The traditional sources of funds of our country in the financial market are – the Commercial Banks, DFIs and the stock exchange. But these sources are not enough to effectively meet the growing demand of capital investments for industrialization of the country. And the backdrop of such scenario, leasing companies
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categories, brands are generally pretty keen to represent their own products or services in advertising. Apple, for one, seems set on demonstrating its wares in creative work. Even at the more functional end of the IT category, Dell is also keen to get its product in front of consumers. However, in financial services, the rules are different. Before the credit crunch, a high proportion of UK-based financial services providers were happier to tell people what they weren’t like and what they didn’t
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and Their Money An essay about financial services for poor people Stuart Rutherford Institute for Development Policy and Management University of Manchester January 1999 The Department for International Development will be publishing this work in New Delhi during 1999. For further information contact Sukhwinder Arora at the Department for International Development, New Delhi, India. ii PREFACE Over the last 15 years initiatives to provide financial services to poor people (the ‘microfinance
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Citigroup is dramatically expanding its Internet presence in an effort to approach its target of 1 billion customers By Bob Violino | | | | itigroup, the financial-services giant formed by the merger last fall of Citicorp and Travelers Group, wants to be the leader in online banking and E-commerce in the financial-services industry. It wants a piece of the major portals on the Internet. And these are part of an even bigger goal: expanding its customer base from 100 million to 1 billion
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with the Secretary of Finance as chairman. * In 1988, LANDBANK became the financial intermediary for the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) * February 23, 1995, LANDBANK's charter was once again amended. Its authorized capital was increased to nine billion pesos and it became an official government depository. LANDBANK OF THE PHIL; * The Land Bank of the Philippines is a government financial institution that strikes a balance in fulfilling its social mandate of promoting
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students make an informed choice and staff act as student advisers. * Quantitative Finance This stream was introduced in response to the demand from merchant banks, investment managers and other financial organisations for graduates able to use analytical and numerical techniques to price financial derivatives and to manage portfolio risks. The BCom and BBusSc (Quantitative Finance) degrees cover much of the material included in the actuarial stream but courses specific to life insurance and pension
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job’ true to its title, is an exasperating documentary about the actual causes and consequences of the financial crisis of 2008. Directed by Charles Ferguson and narrated by Matt Damon, the movie is not a piece of muckraking or breathless support. It rests its infuriation on proper reason, research, figures and careful argument. Several interviews of eminent personalities from political, financial and academic backgrounds, along with news clips and aerial shots of New York, Iceland, London and other
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1 CHAPTER 21 VALUING FINANCIAL SERVICE FIRMS Banks, insurance companies and other financial service firms pose particular challenges for an analyst attempting to value them for two reasons. The first is the nature of their businesses makes it difficult to define both debt and reinvestment, making the estimation of cash flows much more difficult. The other is that they tend to be heavily regulated and the effects of regulatory requirements on value have to be considered. In this chapter, we begin
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