Finance News Archive

01-Oct-2005

• 'Starting trade in Japan harder than Pakistan: IFC MEHMUD AHMEDISLAMABAD (October 02 2005): The International Finance (Business Recorder)
ISLAMABAD (October 02 2005): The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has said that New Zealand is the easiest place in the world to do business and deal with licences, while UK is the easiest to get credit.
• 'Finance chief warns against deferring VAT law (INQ7money.net)
INTERNATIONAL credit-rating agencies emphasized to Philippine economic officials at their meetings last week that implementation of the value-added tax (VAT) law was crucial to prevent a further erosion of the country's credit ratings, Finance Secretary Margarito Teves said Friday.
• 'International Centre To Be Set Up For Islamic Finance Education (Bernama)
PETALING JAYA, Oct 1 (Bernama) -- Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) governor, Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz, says that Malaysia is undertaking an initiative to establish an international centre for education in Islamic finance.
• 'Finance and Commerce (Finance and Commerce)
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• 'University investing in finance professor (The Scotsman)
A LEADING finance expert has joined Edinburgh University's Management School as its first investment professor.
• 'A Raft of Defendants, Thousands of Victims (New York Times)
Almost two years after the Metropolitan Mortgage and Securities Company collapsed, leaving nearly 10,000 investors with huge losses, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice filed criminal charges or civil suits against four executives at the company, a finance and real estate firm in Spokane, Wash., as well as two business partners and two stockbrokers who sold its
• 'Punjab gets third instalment of NFC Award ITRAT BASHIRLAHORE (October 02 2005): The federal government has released the (Business Recorder)
LAHORE (October 02 2005): The federal government has released the third instalment of Rs 12 billion to Punjab government under the Fifth National Finance Commission (NFC) Award for FY 2005-06.
• 'Mortgage Finance Authority expands home renovation program with $2.6 million (BizJournals)
The New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority has garnered funding to expand a pilot program that provides funds for home renovations on tribal lands and colonias.
• 'Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Wisconsin Antiabortion Group's Appeal of Federal Campaign Finance Law (Medical News Today)
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear an appeal by the antiabortion group Wisconsin Right to Life that challenges the constitutionality of a Wisconsin campaign finance law known as McCain-Feingold, Bloomberg/Philadelphia Inquirer reports (Stohr, Bloomberg/Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/28). The Supreme Court in December 2003 voted 5-4 to uphold key provisions of the law, and the ruling prohibits
• 'Dawson proposes changing finance department of school district (Benton Courier)
In his first school board meeting since becoming interim superintendent of the Benton School District, Dr. Fred Dawson recommended a reorganization of the district's Finance department, which he says will save the district about $20,000 annually.