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Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank eyes Asian expansion

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB.AD) plans to develop sharia wealth management opportunities in Asia, with Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore seen as the fastest-growing markets, a top official said yesterday.

“Ethical investing has now become a norm and Islamic banking and wealth management to us is the next level of ethical because there is a spiritual element to that,” Malik Sarwar, the bank’s executive vice president for global wealth management, said on the sidelines of an Islamic banking conference in Bahrain.

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Singapore Exchange chief outlines technology, expansion plan

Singapore Exchange, the operator of the city-state’s securities and derivatives markets, will be able to process trades faster and attract more business as it rolls out services including a new derivatives clearing engine.
 
“These technological enhancements will offer significant improvements,” SGX Chief Executive Officer Magnus Bocker told a conference in Singapore today. “They also support our initiatives to attract the growing pool of algorithmic and high velocity traders, which have doubled in number from the last year.”

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CIT Bankruptcy Means More Social Media

CIT Group, Inc., arguably the largest bank and financier to small business and entrepreneurs, is headed for bankruptcy possibly leaving millions of small businesses, entrepreneurs and startups in the dark. Small firms hoping to leverage the bank for loans on everything from daily operations to expansion just got the rug pulled out from underneath.
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Medvedev on NATO expansion

NATO is starting to realize that Georgia and Ukraine should not be “dragged in”, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said. In an interview for Russia’s NTV, he stressed that it was “not correct to drag other states into military and political alliances against the will of their people”, and that there should be a referendum on NATO membership in Ukraine.

Rob Shapiro: Solving the Problem with Jobs and Wages

The way to ensure the next expansion will create jobs is to make medical cost containment the center of health care reform the development and broad use of alternative fuels the center of energy policy.

Bodies Moved From Cemetery In Crosshairs Of O’Hare Expansion

The only thing standing in the way of new runways at O’Hare were remains at St. Johannes Cemetery. After months of runaround, cemetery officials have finally allowed remains to be moved.

Pakistan Objects To U.S. Expansion In Afghan War

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan is objecting to expanded American combat operations in neighboring Afghanistan, creating new fissures in the alliance with Washington at a critical juncture when thousands of new American forces are arriving in the…

SonicWall Expands TZ Series Appliances Set

SonicWall expands its TZ series with the addition of the TZ 100 and the TZ 200, two appliances aimed at setting a new standard of sophistication for unified threat management.

Network security specialist SonicWall announced the
expansion of their TZ Series product line with the launch of the TZ 200, TZ 200
Wireless-N, TZ 100, and TZ 100 Wireless-N. The expansion also includes the recently
announced TZ 210 and the appliances are aimed at providing small …


SonicWall Expands TZ Series Appliances Set

SonicWall expands its TZ series with the addition of the TZ 100 and the TZ 200, two appliances aimed at setting a new standard of sophistication for unified threat management.

Network security specialist SonicWall announced the
expansion of their TZ Series product line with the launch of the TZ 200, TZ 200
Wireless-N, TZ 100 and TZ 100 Wireless-N. The expansion also includes the recently
announced TZ 210 and the appliances are aimed at providing small t…