Top 10 M&A Deals in insurance Sector
Britain's Prudential said it would buy AIG's Asian life insurance arm for $35.5 billion, in a deal set to make the insurer the undisputed leader in one of the world's fastest-growing financial services markets.
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Deal Makes Strategic Sense, But Pru-AIA Marriage Has Risks
Prudential Plc's $35.5 billion offer for American International Group Inc's Asia business marries the UK insurer's fast-growth strategy with AIA's mature business profile -- a logical, strategic coupling.
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Hana Daetoo Securities Selects Numerix for Derivatives Valuation, Risk and Structuring
Hana Daetoo Securities is the investment banking arm of the Hana Financial Group, which owns Hana Bank, the third largest bank by asset value in Korea.
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Senate Financial Reform Bill Hits Snag
Marathon weekend negotiations in the U.S Senate on financial reform failed to result in a bipartisan breakthrough, with disagreement over how much power to give a consumer watchdog office still a key hurdle.
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A2iA, Chesapeake Use Character Recognition to Detect Check Fraud
Software automatically reads the payee name and checks it against a positive pay list.
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Analysis: AIG's Derivatives Trades Go Back Decades
The year was 1990 and Barack Obama was elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. The first Gulf War against Iraq began. And a Brookfield Asset Management unit entered into a complex derivative deal with AIG.
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Morgan Stanley Traders Had Fewer Days of Trading Losses in 2009
Morgan Stanley's traders cut in half the number of days they lost money in 2009 as opportunities reappeared after the financial crisis soured markets in 2008, according to a regulatory filing.
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BTIG Launches Equity Research Group
The research group will focus on the media, cable, satellite, and telecom industries and assist institutional clients in making strategic investment decisions.
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Visa and DeviceFidelity Collaborate on Mobile Contactless Payments
Alliance seeks to turn mobile phones into Visa mobile payment devices.
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Ancerno Migrates Trade Compass Pre-Trade TCA to Web
The former unit of Abel Noser Corp. will migrate all of its TCA products and services to the Internet by early 2010.
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Symantec Warns Of Online Census Scams
The U.S. Census Bureau has no plans to collect any information over the Internet.
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Google Says Microsoft Waging Proxy War
The search giant sees Redmond's hand behind a series of antitrust actions in U.S. and Europe.
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AP Targets iPad, E-Readers
An application from the news organization will incorporate a paid subscription model for putting content on mobile devices.
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Dell Forges E-Health Partnership With AMA
The American Medical Association and Dell will offer physicians one-stop-shopping for electronic health products.
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Baidu Lands $50 Million From U.S. Investors
The deal will help China's largest search engine launch an online video business.
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Twitter Drops MySQL For Cassandra
The social networking site opts for the open source Cassandra data management system in what's becoming a not-uncommon move.
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Q&A: Why CIOs Must Pay More Attention To Their Support Desks
It comes down to both perceptions and operational priorities, says Craig Baxter, managing director of HDI.
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Guerra On Healthcare: Meaningful Use Proposal Has Some Seeing Red
The more health IT pros look at draft rules, the less they like them.
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Global CIO: Microsoft Slams Oracle For Limiting Choice But Seeks x86 Hegemony
Column about comments from Microsoft's Bob Muglia claiming that Oracle's integrated systems will limit customer choice but Oracle should kill Sparc to reduce competition for the x86 platform.
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Senate Working on Financial Reform, But No Bill Expected Today
Marathon weekend negotiations in the U.S Senate on financial reform failed to result in a bipartisan breakthrough, with disagreement over how much power to give a consumer watchdog office still a key hurdle.
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Brightcove Scores European Gains
Virgin Media and Conde Nast Digital Spain are among new users of Brightcove's video platform.
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