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  • Telstra, the Australian telecommunications company, today announced plans for a possible $A500 million ($392 million), eight-to-nine year long term bond issue in early March, targeted at domestic and offshore institutional investors.
  • UK corporates that don't complete acquisitions before April 5 2005 could face increased pension costs under new TUPE regulations, according to a warning from law firm Withers LLP.
  • NMS Communications, the US mobile provider, has appointed D'Anne Hurd as its new CFO. Hurd was previously CFO of rival communications provider StarBak Communications. Also in the U.S., Michael Robinson, CFO of US Lec, the internet technology company based in Charlotte, is moving to New York to become CEO of Broadview Network Holdings, the communications provider. He will leave US Lec on March 4.
  • The cost of complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in most cases appears to be matched by the effectiveness of improving risk management, according to a survey by RevenueRecognition.com and International Data Corp.
  • The announcement of twelve IPOs in the last week and a survey that finds more investors ploughing money into equity are tentative but definitively positive signs for the UK equity market.
  • A survey by The Hackett Group has revealed that finance officers who operate the most effective procurement systems spend more on technology, yet manage to spend less on operations overall.
  • European default and recovery rates in 2004 show Europe is experiencing the benign credit environment that prevailed across much of the globe last year, reports Moody's Investors Service. During 2004, there were only five European bond defaulters, two rated by Moody's. The total volume of defaulted bonds in Europe was €1.9 billion, of which Moody's rated defaulters accounted for €1.4 billion. Both rated defaulters, Avon Energy Partners and Equitable Finance, are located in the UK.
  • With FDs’ budgets continually under pressure, fewer and fewer organisations are replacing their existing accounting software systems. Instead, they are wringing as much as possible out of their existing accounting systems by implementing add-on modules which have minimal impact on their existing accounting systems but have a fast ROI. So which modules are in demand?
  • World-class procurement executives spend 27% more than their peers on technology, despite the fact that they spend dramatically less on procurement operations overall, according to the latest Book of Numbers research into procurement practices and performance metrics from The Hackett Group, a business process advisory firm.
  • Fitch Ratings has announced a new proposal designed to provide greater transparency into the interplay between default risk and loss given default than heretofore has been available to the market:
  • A raft of new CFOs were announced this week in the US, including an interim officer at optics company Uniphase and a CFO at exploration company Energy Partners.
  • On February 10 2005, the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Regulators (IOSCO) issued a "Statement on the Development and Use of International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS] in 2005".