Finance Law

International diversified resources company, Astra Resources PLC (FWB Code: 9AR), continues to develop at rapid speed – with the company now signing a $750 million corporate financing agreement with New York City based MidOil USA.  The agreement, which will be carried out over five years via investment banking programs conducted by MidOil USA, will also [...]

The University of Queensland’s Law School will build on its research strengths as well as enhance its student experience, says UQ’s new Dean of Law, Professor Gerard Carney. Professor Carney, who was also appointed to the Sir Gerard Brennan Chair in Law, will begin his new role on January 30, 2012. He says he is [...]

PARKERSBURG – West Virginia is one of only nine states without charter schools, according to a national survey on charter school laws. A report released today by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a charter schools advocacy group, ranks 42 states on the quality and accessibility of their charter school programs. West Virginia, Alabama, [...]

Central Banking Central Banks are institutions are utilized by nations around the world to assist in managing their commercial banking industry, interest rates and currency. The idea of a Central bank is not a new one though. The first examples of a central banking authority were seen in China with the first issuance of paper [...]

CHICAGO, Jan. 16, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ – Fieldglass, Inc., the leading technology provider to procure and manage contingent labor and services, today announced proven business executive John Jennings will serve as the company’s chief financial officer (CFO). With more than 20 years of fiscal management experience, Jennings has a solid track record of leading and supporting [...]

The New York Times’s Adam Liptak reports on an Eighth Circuit decision reinstating a lawsuit by Teresa Wagner, now a part-time employee at the University of Iowa College of Law, alleging that the law school violated her First Amendment right to political belief and association by passing her over for a full time position as a Legal Analysis, Writing, [...]

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Thousands commemorating the holiday honouring African-American icon Martin Luther King Jr. Monday outside South Carolina’s state capitol heard a message that wouldn’t have been out of place during the halcyon days of the civil rights movement a half-century ago: the need to protect all citizens’ right to vote. A similar tone was [...]

Barbara Shecter  Jan 16, 2012 – 8:52 AM ET | Last Updated: Jan 16, 2012 9:13 AM ET Norm Betts/Bloomberg News The Bank of Nova Scotia logo sits at a branch in Toronto. Comments Email Twitter Analysts at National Bank Financial have downgraded expectations for Bank of Nova Scotia, suggesting the bank’s successful international and [...]

Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) — Credit-default swaps insuring the bonds of SAS AB signal there’s a 78 percent chance of the Nordic region’s largest carrier being unable to meet its commitments, making it the world’s riskiest airline debt. It now costs 3.6 million euros ($4.6 million), or 36 percent, in advance and 500,000 euros annually to [...]

(PressZoom) – COLUMBIA, Mo. ­— The co-chairs of the University of Missouri’s School of Law Dean Search Committee, Joan Gabel, dean of the Trulaske College of Business, and Thom Lambert, associate professor of the School of Law, have announced the finalists for the School of Law’s dean position. The five finalists are (listed in order [...]