Investment: pour it on, now! Follow the Golden Rule of Accumulation--Start Early!
Retirement begins in your 20s or 30s--or, better yet. at birth. That's when you should start investing to build a big enough nest egg so that you can live off income and capital gains from stocks and bonds, rather than off the sweat of your brow and your brain....

Retail payment systems: what can we learn from two-sided markets?
Abstract: Some retail payment systems can be modelled as two-sided markets, where a payment system facilitates money exchanges between consumers on one side and merchants on the other. The system sets rules and standards, to ensure usage and acceptance of its payment instruments by consumers and merchants respectively. Some...

Economic indicators.
Market Rates and Bond Yields--% Mar. Sept. Mar. 2005 2004 2004 Reserve Bank Discount 3.58 2.58 2.00 Prime Rate (monthly average) 5.58 4.58 4.00 Federal Funds Rate 2.63 1.61 1.00 3-Month Treasury Bills 2.74 1.65 0.94 6-Month Treasury Bills 3.00 1.87 0.99 3-Month Certificates of Deposit 2.97 1.86 1.03...

BIR asks BAP's help in tax filing.
Byline: LEE C. CHIPONGIAN The Bureau of Internal Revenue has asked the Bankers Association of the Philippines to persuade accredited banks to accept the filing of taxpayers income tax returns and to comply to the Memorandum of Agreement with the BIR. BIR Deputy Commissioner Kim...

Early To Ri$e.
Early To Ri$e Michael Z. Stahl Silver Lake Publishing PO Box 29460, Los Angeles, CA 90029 www.silverlakepub.com 1563437910 $19.95 1-888-663-3091 Now in an updated second edition, Early To Ri$e: A Young Adult's Guide To Saving, Investing, And...

ROUNDUP.
Luzon Guard killed in robbery IMUS, Cavite A bank security guard was killed and an undetermined amount of money was lost to four motorcycle-riding men who held up an armored van in the premises of a Japanese manufacturing firm in this town at noon yesterday....

Small Savings Mobilization and Asian Economic Development: The Role of Postal Financial Services.
Small Savings Mobilization and Asian Economic Development: The Role of Postal Financial Services. Edited by Mark J. Scher and Naoyuki Yoshino. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. 265 pp. $74.95 (cloth). Mark J. Scher and Naoyuki Yoshino have compiled a helpful reference volume on what used to...

Fidelity's BrokerageLink[R] adds another vehicle for retirement savings.
Since retiring from NTCA in June 2004, my wife and I have been very pleased with our decisions to take a monthly annuity from the NTCA Retirement & Security (R&S) Program and draw our Social Security benefits at age 63, rather than waiting until age 65 or later. The...

ATM Interface Module.
Dedicated Micros Inc. introduces the DV-IP ATM Interface Module (ATMi). The ATMi is designed to offer integration between Automatic Teller Machines (ATM's) and the Dedicated Micros range of DVRs, including the DV-IP Server and DV-IP ATM. Each module allows transaction data from up to eight individual ATMs to be...

She just wants her $4,213.44, plus interest.
Byline: Bob Welch The Register-Guard You know that saying, "You can bank on it?" Well, sometimes you can't. In 1982, soon after her husband died, Velma Ritchie of Eugene deposited about $4,000 in an IRA at what was then First Interstate Bank in Santa Clara....