UAE - Nov. 6 - Unofficial Cash Transfers To Be Restricted.
A report in The FT says: "The United Arab Emirates is to tighten regulations for the hawala remittance system, the unofficial method of transferring money home used by millions of Asian and other expatriate workers in oil-rich Gulf states. Hawala is widely regarded by Western law enforcement agencies as...

A Web portal exclusively for corporate clients. (Marketing News).
Corporate clients of FleetBoston Financial can now access a variety of the bank's services through a single Web portal. By going to www.corporatefleet.com, customers can conduct cash management, foreign exchange, trade finance and fixed-income transactions and can access a range of commentary and research reports from Fleet economists and...

TATA LAUNCHES BRANDED SOFTWARE FOR INTERNATIONAL BANKS.
India's Tata Consultancy Service (TCS) is to launched its own brand software for custodian services for banks on the international market. Although India's software exports were worth $1.75bn last year, and are targeted to reach $9.35bn by 2001, they are mostly in low-end software development for international clients. Only...

Small business with big future.
Byline: Cerge M. Remonde THE Small Business Guarantee and Finance Corporation (SBGFC) is one of our major partners in promoting entrepreneurship. Also known as the SB Corp., its main function is to source and adopt for small and medium enterprises globally competitive finance technology, production, management, and...

Be a patriot, buy a home: re-imagining Home owners and Home ownership in early 20th century atlanta.
In a 1945 review of John Dean's Homeownership: Is It Sound?, real estate analyst Helen Monchow observed that Dean had set himself an unpopular task in examining "an institution so long established, so deep seated, and so widely accepted as a principle or ideal of the so-called American way...

EXPANDING HOUSING MIX.
Byline: Andrea Damewood The Register-Guard Two new federal grants - and one more potential award - will give homeless veterans and low-income families a big lift and help St. Vincent de Paul add to its rapidly expanding affordable housing programs, officials announced Monday. The Federal...

SB Corp. to hit P4-B target lending to SME sector.
Byline: BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT State-owned lending agency Small Business Corporation (SB Corp.) is confident it could breach the P4-billion mark in credit lending to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as the government moves to perk up entrepreneurial activities especially in the countryside. Small Business Corp. chairman...

Business briefs.
COLUMN: Business briefs Local $447K to SMOC WORCESTER - The South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc. received more than $447,000 in grant funding through the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston to build affordable housing in the city. Statewide, the bank awarded...

Francis M. Metterville, 79; Retired President & CEO of Fidelity Co-operative Bank.
FITCHBURG Francis M. Metterville, 79, retired President and CEO of Fidelity Co-operative Bank, of 65 Carriageway Drive, and 13720 Southampton Drive, Bonita Springs, Florida, died Friday, Nov.2, surrounded by his loving family, in his home in Fitchburg, after a courageous battle with lung cancer. He leaves his...

ABA Financial Marketing Awards: eight-one entries honored.
Eighty-one banks and marketing agencies have been honored by the 2007 ABA Financial Marketing Awards. The awards were presented in September during the ABA Marketing Conference in Baltimore. The competition, which is sponsored by the ABA Marketing Network, recognized outstanding bank marketing creative work in 10 categories:...