Finance Law

Posted on April 16, 2012, Monday Datuk Mohamed Azahari Kamil KUALA LUMPUR: Asian Finance Bank (AFB) has staged a turnaround for its financial year ended December 31, 2011, posting a small profit, said chief executive officer Datuk Mohamed Azahari Kamil. “The profit was contributed by the corporate banking sector and we will announce details of [...]

I’ve long loitered in the shadow of Richard Gardner, the eminent diplomat and professor at Columbia University Law School—not that he or Columbia had any idea about this when the law school invited me to a conference where a hundred of his students, many currently at the controls of international power, returned to the campus [...]

Despite all talks of inclusive banking of the last decade, figures available from the Reserve Bank of India suggest the opposite trend. Banking continues to be the prerogative of urban and semi-urban elite. While the urban elite enjoy the benefits of internet banking, phone banking and mobile banking, the poorer country cousins are still deprived [...]

Mizat Development Company, a Saudi-based real estate group, has entered into a finance agreement with Bank Aljazira to provide Sharia funding for its SR250 million ($66.6 million) Darat Al-Hada residential project in Riyadh. The project at Al-Hada in west Riyadh is one of the finest residential neighbourhoods, exceeding a total area of 40,000 sq.m that [...]

Luanda – The Law Faculty of the state-owned Agostinho Neto University (UAN) will hold on 19-20 April, in Luanda, its fourth International Congress on Law, in partnership with the law faculties of the Lisbon University (Portugal) and Pontifícia Católica of São Paulo (Brazil). According to a note from the UAN’s Law Faculty the congress will [...]

Dear Editor: On March 30, Wright Middle School students took a stand for Trayvon Martin. Nearly the entire student body and staff delivered a message about the dangers of racial profiling and unjust gun laws. Our school stood in solidarity on Fish Hatchery Road with our hoods up and signs in hand. Our eighth-grade language [...]

WASHINGTON — Urging Republicans to reauthorize funding of the Export-Import Bank, Commerce Secretary John Bryson said that losing the institution and its vital role in the economy would be “unacceptable.” Many in the GOP have been blocking the Obama administration’s proposed reauthorization, under which the bank’s total lending authority would increase to $140 billion by [...]

OTTAWA — As the Conservatives sell their latest budgetary plan at home and abroad, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is touting the benefits of five consecutive years of corporate tax cuts on the government’s bottom line. Flaherty told reporters in New York and Edmonton this week that government revenues from corporations continue to rise even as [...]

WASHINGTON — With many Republicans blocking re-authorization of the Export-Import Bank, Commerce Secretary John Bryson called the institution an example of good government that plays a vital role in the economy. “Reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank should be a straightforward, sound, and simple decision,” Bryson said Friday.  “Or put another way, losing Ex-Im at a time [...]

That’s the message of McGeorge School of Law assistant professor Michael Colatrella, who teaches mediation and negotiation skills to lawyers … and anybody else who wants to sharpen their techniques. At $999, his three-day Advanced Negotiation seminars aren’t for every budget, but we asked him to sit down last week and share a few tips [...]