Executive moves.
AGL Resources Inc., an Atlanta-based regional holding company for energy and infrastructure-related businesses in the Southeast, has named Gene Rozgonyi vice president and chief risk officer. He will be responsible for measuring and monitoring risk throughout AGL Resources and its subsidiaries, including financial risk, weather risk, and risk related...

Books, articles and letters by Harry Gunnison Brown.
"The Basis of Rate-Making as Affected by Competition Versus Combination of Railroads." Yale Review, 16 (May 1907): 79-86. "Competitive and Monopolistic Price Making." Quarterly Journal of Economics 22 (August 1908): 62 5-639. "Review of Gold, Prices and Wages under the Greenback Standard by Wesley C....

Where have all the $$$ gone? Millions of dollars worth of Arab investment capital are claimed to have left the US since President Bush declared his war on terror. London was considered the likeliest recipient but the evidence is inconclusive. (Business & Finance).
The private wealth of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member nations held abroad is reckoned at well over $1 trillion and, understandably, competition for a slice of the lucrative GCC pie is intense. The private wealth abroad of Saudi Arabians alone is conservatively estimated at $700bn. Arab investment abroad...

African Americans and the financial services industry.
Introduction and Background Before 1970, there were relatively few African Americans employed in professional positions in the financial services industry. Commercial banks, brokerage houses and investment banking firms recruited African Americans for the first time. Most of these institutions were unaware that their decisions would have a lasting effect...

Syria moves to accelerate pace of Islamic banking: John Dagge reports from Damascus on the new drive to stimulate Syria's Islamic banking sector, which opened locally back in 2005 but has, so far, failed to establish a credible niche.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A NEW BREED OF financial institution is emerging in Syria; one that complies with Islamic law. In the past six months the country's first two Islamic banks opened for business, while another six have received licences and are in the process of setting up shop....

Will Arab banks go global? While highly successful in a regional context, the time has come for the leading Arab banks to look more closely at the global picture and make some essential adjustments. (Business & Finance).
The health of Arab finance is largely dependent upon a sustained high level of oil revenues. Hence, the financial sector's continuing vulnerability to events in the international oil market. During the past 15 years, depleting oil revenues and domestic economic problems have combined to produce an entirely different operating...

Arab banking.
In the first of a two-part special report, MOIN SlDDIQI examines the performance of regional banks. In this month's issue the concentration is on financial institutions in the Gulf states. The Arab banks, as a consequence of a rapid environmental changes in the 1980s, have had to adjust to...

When the banks went off the rails: a war memoir from the eighties.
A new administration is in place and one of its nagging problems will be the condition of our banking system. Although current banking news tends to the upbeat, we are still living with the consequences of a major debacle. How could there have been such massive failures of both...

Learning from failures in microfinance: what unsuccessful cases tell us about how group-based programs work.
Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more. The great difficulty is to get that little. - Adam Smith(1) The success of microfinance programs as agents of poverty alleviation are well known to students of development.(2)...

PROCEEDING WITH CAUTION.
Buoyed by excellent profits and increased lending opportunities in 1997, banks in the Gulf are preparing for a spate of changes that are likely to dramatically affect the sector during the next few years. Opportunities are growing for the well managed institutions to take a larger regional...