Financial Armageddon.
Financial Armageddon Michael J. Panzner Kaplan Publishing 888--7th Avenue, 22nd Floor, New York NY 10106 141959608X, $25.00 www.kaplanpublishing.com FINANCIAL ARMAGEDDON: PROTECTING YOUR FUTURE FROM FOUR IMPENDING CATASTROPHES surveys the main issues affecting the future of money in this nation,...

Greenfield Energy Center Obtains Financing for Electric Plant in Ontario.
ENERGY RESOURCE-5 June 2007-Greenfield Energy Center Obtains Financing for Electric Plant in Ontario(C)2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Calpine Corporation today said that Greenfield Energy Centre LP, which is currently constructing a 1,005-megawatt natural gas-fired, combined-cycle electric generating plant in St. Clair Township, Ontario, Canada, has obtained $650 million...

Private consumption in Thailand declines.
Thailand's biggest commercial bank, the Bangkok Bank, reviewed the country's economic situation for the first half of 2007 and said the following about private consumption. "Private consumption and investment were negatively affected as political instability dampened consumers' and investors' confidences." The private consumption index declined negative 0.2 percent when...

NCB launches new corporate identity.
* The National Commercial Bank (NCB), the first Saudi bank established in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has launched its new corporate identity that matches its vision and drive to be the preferred provider of financial services to consumers and business-and an innovative leader in Islamic banking across the...

Islamic Banking and finance: New Perspectives on Profit-Sharing And Risk.
Edited by Munawar Iqbal and David T Llewellyn Published by Edward Elgar publishing ISBN 1 84064787 6 272 price 59.95 [pounds sterling] hardback It is a well-known fact that conventional commercial banks provide financial intermediation services on the basis of interest rates on assets and liabilities. However,...

The bankers' bankers' bank: the Bank of International Settlements.
'YOU mean to tell me that the success of the program and my re-election hinges on the Federal Reserve and a bunch of --ing bond traders?' This was the response of Bill Clinton, newly elected but not yet inaugurated as US President, when on 7 January 1993 he was...

ARABCOM shifts from Beirut to Doha. (Business & Finance).
Following four successful years in Beirut, ARABCOM -- the IT and telecommunications exhibition, has shifted from Beirut to Doha, where it will be held next month under the auspices of Qatar's prime minister Abdullah Bin Khalifa Al Thani. The fifth ARABCOM -- ARABCOM 2002 -- one of the most...

Hawala: the terrorist's informal financial mechanism.
Since 9/11, investigations into the al-Qaeda financial network have led to several notable successes in the United States and Europe. Much of this achievement in the United States has resulted from strengthening the financial investigatory powers of domestic law-enforcement agencies and coordinating them through the Treasury Department's new Foreign...

Privatisation programme lumbers slowly on: Egypt's privatisation programme, initiated in 1991, aimed at the privatisation of over 300 public sector firms. Simon Brindle reports from Cairo on the achievements and impact of a decade of privatisation and the road ahead. (Egypt).
Following the revolution of 1952, the Egyptian government began to play a more active role in the country's economy. Beginning with the establishment of iron and steel, cement and construction companies and the nationalisation of the Suez Canal and several privately owned companies; the public sector quickly established its...

Insurance and financial services still testing DR waters.
Financial services institutions, mortgage businesses and insurance companies have dipped their toes in the DRTV pool from time to time--financial services companies seeming to prefer the long format and insurance and credit card products most often seen in short-form. With the exception of Bank of America and Fidelity Investment's...