Resources

6591 Resources for

financial services

Subscribe to this listing via:
RSS
Email

Show All Related Tags Did you mean John Hancock Financial Services Inc. (389 results), Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (133 results), Discover Financial Services (114 results), PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (46 results), financial services company (21 results)more...

Show Fewer Related Tags Did you mean John Hancock Financial Services Inc. (389 results), Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (133 results), Discover Financial Services (114 results), PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (46 results), financial services company (21 results), AmTrust Financial Services Inc. (5 results), Provident Financial Services Inc. (5 results), nationwide financial services inc. (5 results)fewer...

BNET Resources

The Miles Bye Club: The airline guys who invented frequent-flier programs almost 30 years ago and then turned them into wildly successful marketing vehicles eventually began calling miles "the nation's second currency." After all, they said with a warranted appreciation for what they had wrought, what else in America was so easily earned,...; Tags: Chase, Mileage, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines Inc., Mile, Continental Airlines Inc., Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales; Articles 2008-08-05
Merrill: Losing the Expectations Game: Dennis Berman looks today at Merrill Lynch's earnings per share. With earnings down and the number of shares up, he concludes, reasonably enough, that, in the words of Sanford Bernstein's Brad Hintz, "it's extremely difficult to get to the earnings-per-share number of 2004 anytime soon". Er, yes....; Tags: Financial Accounting, Berman, Earnings Per Share, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Bank, Game, Financial Services, Finance, Felix Salmon; Articles 2008-08-05
KKR's Big Plans: Henry Kravis is, at long last, taking buyout giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts public but a look at the deal and the firm’s ambitions means management may want it to look more like BlackRock than Steve Schwarzman’s Blackstone. When Blackstone went public last year, it was a spectacle as dollar signs...; Tags: Investment, Blackstone, Henry Kravis, KKR, Wall, Investor, Hedge Fund, Wall Street Journal, Private Equity, Financial Services, Construction, IPO, Finance; Articles 2008-07-28
Why We Can't Stop Making Bad Decisions: Might the bailout of the week strategy in vogue in Washington be simply irrational behavior on an institutional level? I hinted at this in Peeling Away the Economic Onion. I ran across this Shankar Vedantam column in the Washington Post, Taking More Risks Because You Feel...; Tags: Michael Fitzgerald, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Financial Planning, Robots, Financial Services, Investment, Taxes; Blog posts 2008-07-17
Developments In Coaching: The world of Executive Coaching continues to evolve. Two big recent developments are worthy of note: firstly, the emergence of smaller professional service firms focused on coaching and secondly, organisations are pulling together their own ?Benches? of coaches. There is a third movement - not large enough to merit the...; Tags: Marketing, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Financial Services, Business Operations, It Operations, Marketing Research, Outsourcing, Learning Ireland; White papers 2008-07-16

Seven Ways to Escape Your Cell Phone Contract: You know the drill: To get a cell phone on the cheap, you have to sign up for a two-year service contract. But what if you want to get out of that contract (so you can buy, oh, I dunno, an iPhone 3G)? Normally you're subjected to a hefty early...; Tags: Phone, ETF, Cell Phone, Financial Services, Rick Broida; Blog posts 2008-07-16
Top 5 Recession-Proof Jobs: The Find: The economic news may be moving from bad to dreadful, but at least some folks don't have to worry; one recruitment company has identified the top five recession-proof jobs. The Source: A study from Washington, DC based recruitment company, Jobfox. The Takeaway:...; Tags: Jessica Stillman, Workforce Management, Finance, Human Resources, Sales, Financial Services, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Job, Operational Accounting, Sector; Blog posts 2008-07-16
Thinking Through Uncertainty: CFOs Scrutinize Non-Financial Risk: All risk is ultimately financial. Risks can impact the top and bottom line and eventually every risk is expressed in the company's share price. CFOs are increasingly getting involved in the art - and the science - of non-financial risk management. The companies profiled in this paper...; Tags: Financial Services, Security, Financial Planning, CFO, Management, Strategy, Risk Management, Risk, Finance; White papers 2008-07-14
The Budweiser Wars: Where's Lou Dobbs?: Maybe I've missed it, but I have been waiting for CNN pundit Lou Dobbs to weigh in on the foreign invasion of an American icon -- Budweiser beer. After finding its initial $65 a share bid for Anheuser-Busch Companies rebuffed, InBev SA, the Belgian-Brazilian brewer of such...; Tags: Takeover, Peter Galuszka, Internet, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Financial Services, InBev, Corporate Governance, Blogging, Investment, A-B, Financial Accounting, Finance; Blog posts 2008-07-07
What the 'Idea Guy' is Worth at Equity Split: You and your partners in an entrepreneurial venture are about to determine the equity split of your new business -- who gets what percentage. So what's the premium earned byÂ the person who came up with the original idea? Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman conducted a...; Tags: Equity, Investment, Financial Services, Sean Silverthorne, Management, Finance, Entrepreneurship; Blog posts 2008-06-19
Manage Your Money with Free GnuCash Accounting Software (Windows/Mac/Linux): If you run a small business and need a basic accounting package to go with it, here's an open-source (read: free) solution: GnuCash, a money-management application that includes small-business accounting features. GnuCash provides a checkbook-style register, integrated graphing and reporting, support for multiple currencies, and Quicken QIF...; Tags: GnuCash Accounting Software, Financial Services, Quicken, Operational Accounting, Small Business, Accounting, Rick Broida, Finance; Blog posts 2008-06-04
Behind the Ouster of Wachovia's CEO: First they stripped G. Kennedy Thompson of his role as Chairman of Wachovia Corp. Now, they're forcing the CEO of the nation's fourth largest bank to retire. Sounds like another tale of C-Suite woe for major banks. Indeed, financial institutions have been taking hit after hit in...; Tags: Wachovia Corp., Financial Services, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Peter Galuszka, Investment, First Union; Blog posts 2008-06-03
Bank of Hawaii: A Different Kind of Offshore Account: Sure, the locals call it “Bankoh,” but this company is no coconut stand. The Bank of Hawaii came into some unexpected cash recently and now has a new president – hopeful signs for the regional bank.; Tags: britney, nyse, nasdaq, invest, investing, stock stock exchange, stocks, wallstrip, julie alexandria, howard lindzon, analysts, mutual funds, decline, tourism, airlines, ask julie, whale, ho, bankoh, beach, magnum pi, snoop dogg, blood, vacation, lei, bank, hawaii, Dollar, Financial Services, Offshore; Videos 2008-05-30
Junk Your Headquarters: You don't need a headquarters -- you need a federation of autonomous hub offices in different regions. So argue C.K. Prahalad and Hrishikesh Bhattacharyya in their article Twenty Hubs and No HQ in the latest issue of strategy+business registration required. Prahalad, a...; Tags: U.S., Gross Domestic Product, India, Investment, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Finance, Marketing, Michael Fitzgerald; Blog posts 2008-05-30
Engaging with Business Banking Customers: View this on-demand Webcast with Jeanne Capachin, Research Vice President with Financial Insights, as she examines how Rich Internet Applications RIAs can be used to solve some of the online banking problems that financial institutions are having. Learn what to do when the pace of change outside the financial...; Tags: Financial, Actuate Corp., Financial Company, Rich Internet Application, Online Banking, Banking, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Internet, Finance; Webcasts 2008-05-20
Why You Should Use a Credit Card for Airplane Tickets: If you routinely charge plane tickets to a debit card, stop. The New York Times explains why you should always use a credit card for your flight purchases: Under the federal Fair Credit Billing Act, a credit card company is required to return your money for a service not...; Tags: Financial Services, Sales Channel, Debit Card, Credit Card Company, Credit Card, Sales, Rick Broida; Blog posts 2008-05-15
GM's Lender/Borrower Double Standard?: Are the folks at General Motors guilty of a double-standard, or hypocrisy, or possibly even an ethical breach, for the very different ways it's behaving as a lender and a borrower in the mortgage mess? They're at least guilty of not doing unto others as they would have done...; Tags: Business Operations, Capital Structures, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Litigation, General Motors Corp., Mortgages, William Baker, Finance; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Benefit or Threat?: Just when CEOs thought they had a handle on secretive and powerful hedge funds, they must consider a quieter but even bigger monster -- Sovereign Wealth Funds. These government-owned funds, including ones in China, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Singapore, represent more than $2.5 trillion in global assets,...; Tags: Software, Peter Galuszka, U.S., Fund, Hedge Fund, Government, Investment, Financial Services, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Finance, Benefit; Blog posts 2008-05-05
Make Your Business Loan-Worthy: Borrowed money is often the key to building and growing a successful small business. For independent business owners, however, courting lenders isn't always easy. This paper explains how to make a strong case and win over even the choosiest banks. "If you have a good business plan, you know what...; Tags: Financial Services, Bank, MasterCard International; White papers 2008-04-30
6 Tips to Protect You from Hedge Fund Predators: Feel terrorized by hedge fund activists? The Conference Board can help. The group's Governance Center is in the final stages of issuing a report explaining the threats and offering CEOs and directors ways to avoid unwanted takeovers. About 9,000 hedge funds controlling $1.8 trillion in assets are...; Tags: Financial Services, Investment, Hedge Fund, Finance, Peter Galuszka; Blog posts 2008-04-30