Finance Law

Thu May 31, 2012 4:31pm EDT

“Strained” would not begin to describe the relationship between the New Haven, Conn., school and Thomas, Class of 1974. For years, the 63-year-old justice has avoided his alma mater, writing that it was a mistake for him to have attended the school and declining to have his portrait hung in its halls, as is the [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa will continue its effort to get a waiver from the federal government’s No Child Left Behind Act even though state laws governing teacher evaluations are likely why it hasn’t received one, the state’s education director said. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on Tuesday granted exemptions to eight more [...]

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said policy makers will keep focusing their crisis support on solvent euro area banks as he reiterated it’s not the ECB’s job to fix the cause of the region’s turmoil. “The ECB will continue lending to solvent banks and will keep the liquidity lines active and alive with solvent [...]

DUBUQUE, Iowa, May 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – In a move to increase available office space for its expanding operations, approximately 90 Heartland Financial USA, Inc. employees in Dubuque will relocate from two Dubuque locations to the third floor of the historic downtown Roshek Building. The move is contingent on City Council approval of certain [...]

HONOLULU, May 30, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ – The Hawaii School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University, Hawaii is pleased to announce that it has been granted an award of five years continued accreditation for its Doctor of Psychology in the Clinical Psychology Program (PsyD) by the American Psychological Association (APA).  “Accreditation by the APA is the [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa will continue its effort to get a waiver from the federal government’s No Child Left Behind Act even though state laws governing teacher evaluations are likely why it hasn’t received one, the state’s education director said. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on Tuesday granted exemptions to eight more [...]

NORFOLK, Va., May 30, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hampton Roads Bankshares, Inc. (Nasdaq:HMPR) (the “Company”), the holding company for The Bank of Hampton Roads (“BHR”) and Shore Bank (“Shore”), today announced that James D. Barr has joined Shore as its Delaware Market President, effective May 29, 2012. Barr brings three decades of lending experience in [...]

Dennis Watson is taking over from Alex Brown who has moved to other sectors. Barclays plc (LON:BARC) has appointment Dennis Watson as its new Head of Asset Finance within the Corporate Bank. Watson is already responsible for the bank’s real estate, project finance and mezzanine debt origination teams and will assume control of the Asset [...]

BEIJING, May 31, 2012 — /PRNewswire-Asia/ — The law firm Jones Day, through its non-profit foundation funded by donations from attorneys and staff, has announced the establishment of the Peking University – Jones Day Chair Professorship for Globalization and Rule of Law to support the university’s efforts in recruiting and retaining world-leading academicians. Stephen J. [...]