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Deutsche Bank announces executive appointments

2008-03-12T09:03:00.001-07:00

12th March 2008

By Staff Writer

Deutsche Bank has appointed Tim Ryan and Hugh Macdonald as co-heads of its real estate investment banking team in Australia and New Zealand.

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Mr Ryan joins the team in Sydney from New York where he was managing director of the real estate investment banking team working in the global mergers and acquisitions group. With over a decade of experience, Mr Ryan's focus for the last six years has been on large cap M&A transactions on behalf of many of the bank's real estate clients.

Mr Macdonald joins Deutsche Bank from Citigroup where he was a director in the mergers and acquisitions team in the real estate investment banking division. Prior to his role at Citigroup, he spent five years in London with Morgan Stanley working in capital markets. Mr Macdonald brings with him valuable in-depth market knowledge and relationships with many of the important players in Australia's real estate sector.

Monte Koche, global head of real estate investment banking at Deutsche Bank, said: "The combination of Tim and Hugh offers experience that covers the full spectrum - M&A, capital markets, local market knowledge and global connectivity."

UPDATE: Deutsche Bank Hires 6 Private Bankers From JPMorgan

2008-03-12T09:01:00.001-07:00

March 10, 2008: 11:34 PM EST

(Adds details on Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan's private banking operations.)

HONG KONG -(Dow Jones)- Deutsche Bank AG (DB) said Tuesday it hired a team of six private bankers from JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s (JPM) Hong Kong private banking unit, including the head of its Hong Kong office, Margaret Kwong.

Also joining Deutsche are Wendy Kong, Alice Chow, Wilfred Ng, Wayne Wai and Frederick Fong. They all start at Deutsche on Wednesday.

Deutsche Bank said its private banking unit increased its assets under management by 19% in 2007. It now manages about US$33.8 billion on behalf of clients in nine Asia Pacific markets.

Deutsche's private banking operation in Hong Kong "has grown rapidly by leveraging the bank's strong investment banking platform and offering unique services for entrepreneurs," Ravi Raju, head of Deutsche Bank private wealth management in Asia Pacific, said in a statement.

JPMorgan's private banking unit focuses on ultra-high net worth clients with liquid assets of over US$25 million. It is generally assumed in the private banking industry that 40% of clients move along with their banker.

-By Ellen Sheng, Dow Jones Newswires; 852-2832-2336; ellen.sheng@dowjones.com

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BANKING GIANTS: THE OVERVIEW; BANK OF AMERICA AND FLEETBOSTON AGREE TO MERGER

2008-03-12T09:01:00.000-07:00

By RIVA D. ATLAS

Published: October 28, 2003

Bank of America and FleetBoston Financial announced yesterday that they would combine to create a consumer banking giant with branches from Maine to California.

Bank of America, which is based in Charlotte, N.C., but has a strong California franchise, will pay an estimated $48 billion in stock for FleetBoston's robust presence in the Northeast and for access to some of the wealthiest households in the country. Combined, the institution would be the nation's second-largest bank in assets and would control nearly 10 percent of the nation's deposits, the maximum that can be gained by acquisition. All told, it would have 5,700 branches in 29 states.

The announcement comes as Bank of America is being investigated for its role in a widening examination of improper trading in mutual fund shares. The bank recently fired several top executives, and one former broker faces criminal charges by the New York attorney general. The head of its asset management business with oversight of mutual funds was left without a job in the new organization. [Page C1.]

For FleetBoston, itself the product of dozens of acquisitions, the deal ends an institution with roots in 18th-century New England and removes another corporate titan from Boston. The bank has been described as a takeover candidate since it incurred heavy losses after the merger of Fleet Financial and BankBoston in 1999. For customers of Fleet and its predecessors -- who have already changed hands many times -- the combination is sure to produce some anxiety about changes in fees, accounts and service.

Bank of America's chief executive, Kenneth D. Lewis, said yesterday that the addition of Fleet would make Bank of America ''truly a national bank.''

Still, the bank's stock fell sharply yesterday, as analysts questioned the cost of the deal.

The acquisition, announced on the same day as other big deals in health care and tobacco, may suggest that corporations are beginning to take a more offensive posture after a quiet period for mergers amid corporate scandals and economic torpor. Mr. Lewis predicted that his acquisition would put pressure on other banks to combine, and stocks of several banks viewed as takeover candidates rose yesterday.

The combination, which was reported yesterday in The Boston Globe, will bring together banks that are products of a dizzying list of deals. Each bank struggled to overcome unexpected losses after its last round of mergers -- Bank of America's approximately $60 billion merger with NationsBank in 1998, and Fleet Financial's combination with BankBoston for $16 billion.

Bank of America, under the leadership of Mr. Lewis, reduced its exposure to corporate lending and shed risky businesses like subprime lending and auto leasing. FleetBoston, under it chief executive, Charles K. Gifford, also shifted its emphasis to consumer banking, reducing its exposure to Latin America and slashing the corporate loans on its books -- but not before suffering heavy losses in both areas.

The combined institution will retain the Bank of America name and its headquarters in Charlotte, the former home of NationsBank. Mr. Lewis, 56, will be the new chief executive, and Mr. Gifford, 60, will become chairman and remain in Boston.

Bank of America will control 12 of the 19 seats on the new board. Because the banks do not have much geographic overlap, regulatory and antitrust issues are not expected to pose significant problems.

Mr. Gifford's tenure at FleetBoston was marred by losses. He became chief executive in 2001, having earlier been chief executive of BankBoston. From the beginning, he battled rumors that he was about to sell FleetBoston, as the promised turnaround was slow to materialize. ''It is not our intention to sell the company,'' he said in an interview in March.

Yesterday, he said that the lure of Bank of America was too hard to resist, although he admitted to feeling ''a lot of emotion'' about FleetBoston giving up its independence.

The generous purchase price swayed his decision, according to people briefed on the negotiations. Under the terms of the deal, each FleetBoston share will be exchanged for 0.55 share of Bank of America. Based on Friday's closing prices, each Fleet share is worth $45 -- 40 percent more than before the deal was announced. That premium is the biggest among the top 20 bank deals of the last decade, according to SNL Financial.

Banking on Zoellick

2008-03-12T08:59:00.003-07:00

Will Robert Zoellick be able to get the World Bank back on its feet after the failed presidency of Paul Wolfowitz?

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Will newly anointed World Bank president Robert Zoellick be able to get the organisation back on its feet after the catastrophic failed presidency of Paul Wolfowitz? Although hardly a megawatt star of the Bob Rubin category, he certainly brings some positive attributes to the job.

First, as a key player in bringing China into the World Trade Organization, Zoellick is a proven internationalist in an American administration where internationalists have sometimes seemed like an endangered species. Second, he is a firm believer in the power of markets and free trade, which have clearly done far more to alleviate poverty over the past half-century than any aid program. Third, he seems to have been a consistent behind-the-scenes supporter of the Bank, whereas many of his Bush administration colleagues would be just as happy to see it shut down and its Washington headquarters turned into private condominiums and offices. So presumably he has a constructive vision for the Bank's future.

But Zoellick is not without his weaknesses. First and foremost, his appointment extends the embarrassingly outmoded practice of always installing an American in the job. With the Bank tirelessly preaching the merits of good governance, its failure to adopt democratic principles undercuts its own legitimacy. The claim that the World Bank needs an American president to ensure that the US keeps donating money is ridiculous. The annual cost of the US contribution to the World Bank, even taking into account off-the-books loan guarantees, is relatively minor. Any number of developing countries, from China to India to Brazil, could easily step up if the US foolishly stepped down.

Zoellick's background as a lawyer hardly makes him perfect for the job, either. The World Bank presidency is not about negotiating treaties, as Zoellick did when he was US trade representative. The Bank's most important role in development today is as a "knowledge bank" that helps aggregate, distil, and disseminate best practices from around the world. In this respect, the Bank's technical assistance to governments is very similar to what private consultants offer to companies.

Moreover, many of the World Bank president's most important decisions involve economics in an essential way. Wrong economic decisions, such as in the 1970's, when Robert McNamara pushed grandiose, but environmentally devastating, infrastructure projects, have haunted the Bank for decades.

The biggest question mark, though, is whether Zoellick will be able to hit the ground running and implement desperately needed reforms. Reform number one, of course, is to ensure that the next World Bank president is not an American. Rodrigo de Rato, Zoellick's counterpart at the European-dominated International Monetary Fund, has already suggested that his successor should be chosen in a more inclusive process. The World Bank should be ashamed that its president has not yet offered a similar proposal.

Second, Zoellick should ask why the Bank spends only 2.5% of its budget on the "knowledge bank" research function that it trumpets so proudly in its external relations materials, while it spends three times that amount on maintaining its executive board.

Third, Zoellick should use his formidable negotiating skills to cajole rich countries into greatly increasing the grant component of World Bank aid. The idea that a big government-guaranteed global bank is needed to fill holes in private capital markets is laughable nowadays. True, the Bank's poorest clients have little access to private capital markets. By and large, however, the poorest countries need grants, not loans that they still won't be able to pay in 20 years.

As the Bank switches from loans to grants, it can use some of its massive retained earnings to endow its "knowledge bank" function and related technical advice. But all this knowledge shouldn't be free. A lot of technical advice falls on deaf ears, with countries listening only long enough to get their hands on Bank money. Instead of merely pushing its agenda, the Bank should start charging for its technical advice on a graduated scale so that more of its engagements are client-driven.

Last but not least, the Bank needs to play a much bigger role in environmental issues and, in general, in promoting good international citizenship by both rich and poor countries. (Some of us have been proposing this for almost two decades.)

Of course, Zoellick could just attempt to fill the role symbolically and do little or nothing, as some of his predecessors have done. Or, less likely, he could embrace some megalomaniacal and over-reaching vision of government intervention, as others have tried. In any case, let's wish him luck. The world needs the World Bank a lot more than it needs another condominium.

In cooperation with Project Syndicate, 2007.

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Job Career Vacancy Resources

2008-03-12T08:59:00.001-07:00

Indonesia Job Employment and Career Vacancy

Lowongan Kerja Bank Panin
Job Category : Engineering, Science, Sastra Budaya, Social Science, Seni Desain, Kesehatan, Agriculture, Economics, Jasa Layanan, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Architectur Engineering, Geology/Geography, Computer/Informatics Engineering, Biology, Chemical, Mathematic, Fisika, Ilmu Politik Pemerintahan, Hubungan Internasional, Communication, Sosiologi/Sosiatri, Administration, Education, Law, Ilmu Agama, Sastra Indonesia, Sastra Inggris, Sastra Asing (non Ingris), Philosophy, Antroplogi/Arkeologi, Ilmu Sejarah, Jurnalism/Writer, Budaya Daerah, Graphic Design, Seni Rupa, Teater/Pertunjukan, Sinematografi Perfilman, Kedokteran dan Spesialisasi, Nursery, Pharmacy, Veterinary, Psychology, Peternakan dan Perikanan, Forestry and Plantation, Management, Accounting, Secretarial, Tax, Sales/Marketing, Hotel/Tourism, Pelayaran, Agency, Entertainer, Officer, Industrial Engineering

challenge for qualified bankers

Panin Bank, the fastest growing bank which experiences significant growth and has a successful reputation as one of the leading bank in Indonesia, is currently seeking a good professional people with high integrity to compete our challenge as:

1. Customer Service (CS)
Requirements:
• Hold Bachelor Degree (S1) from a reputable university with IPK min 2.75
• Fresh Graduate are welcome
• Female, Single with maximum 25 year of age
• Attractive and good appearance
• Excellent selling and networking skill
• Highly motivated, hard worker, and disciplined
• Ability to speak foreign language (English / Mandarin) will be an advantage
• Computer literate ability to work in computerized environment

2. Teller (TL)
Requirements:
• Hold Diploma Degree (D3) or Bachelor Degree (S1) from a reputable university with IPK min 2.75
• Fresh Graduate are welcome
• Female, Single with maximum 25 year of age
• Attractive and good appearance
• Highly motivated, hard worker, and disciplined
• Highly accuracy and excellent administration
• Computer literate ability to work in computerized environment

3. Relationship Manager (RM)
Requirements:
• Male or Female
• Maximum 27 year of age
• Bachelor or Master Degree from any reputable university
• Attractive and good appearance
• Minimal 2 years experienced in banking industry as Relationship Manager / Personal Banker / CSO / AO and has customer base
• Ability to speak foreign language (English / Mandarin / Hokien) will be an advantage
• Have the ability to undertake heavy workload,
• Have a through knowledge off all the bank products & service
• Have an excellent selling & networking skills, target oriented, excellent interpersonal relationship skill

4. Programmer (PG)
Requirements:
• Diploma Degree (D3) or Bachelor Degree from a reputable university in IT or Computer Science
• Male or Female with maximum 27 year of age
• Minimal 1 years experience as IT Officer in Banking Industry
• Fast learner, hard worker and able to work under pressure
• Familiar with database and able to create program

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• Maximum 40 year of age
• Bachelor or Master Degree from reputable company
• Minimal 2 years experience in banking industry as Sub Branch Manager or Senior Account Officer and has customer base
• Good command in English and Mandarin
• Able to undertake heavy workload (responsible in achieving sub branch target, maintain service quality and the operation of sub branch)
• Have a strong marketing & strong leadership
• Have excellent interpersonal relationship skill
• Have a good analytical thinking and problem solving

To apply, send your resume and necessary documents with recent photographs to:
Human Resources Department
Gedung Bank Panin
Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav.1- BS Floor
Jakarta Pusat 10270

Email: hrd.paninsny@gmail.com

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Cole Taylor Bank Announces Sale of Woodlawn Branch

2008-03-12T08:57:00.002-07:00

		Cole Taylor Bank logo. (PRNewsFoto/Cole Taylor Bank) ROSEMONT, IL UNITED STATES

      Bank streamlines operations in fulfillment of strategic mission

   ROSEMONT, Ill., March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mark A. Hoppe, Chief
Executive Officer and President for Cole Taylor Bank, recently announced
the sale of the bank's branch office located at 824 East 63rd Street,
Chicago, Illinois, to Highland Community Bank. The deal is expected to
close on March 31, 2008.

   (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20061010/CGTU045LOGO)

   The sale represents a critical step in the streamlining of Cole
Taylor's banking center operations, enabling it to focus on its niche
market of closely-held businesses. Announcing the sale, Paul W. Kogol,
Group Senior Vice President and Director of Banking Centers for Cole Taylor
Bank said, "Cole Taylor has worked in recent years to realign its
operations to better support its commercial banking strategy. The sale of
the Woodlawn office, coupled with the closing of our Orland Park banking
center in October, 2007, will enable us to sharpen our focus on our niche
market and truly concentrate our efforts on fulfilling our mission to be
Chicago's bank for closely-held businesses."

   Highland Community Bank, a community bank serving Chicago's south side
for more than 38 years, believes the banking center is a good fit for their
business plan. It will allow them to strengthen their base in the Woodlawn
/ Englewood area and afford them the opportunity to reach more area
residents and businesses with products for home and auto purchases, home
repairs, and loans for churches and other not-for profit organizations.

   According to Kogol, "We took great care in identifying the right buyer
for our Woodlawn office and believe that the sale is in the best interest
of customers, the Woodlawn neighborhood, Highland and Cole Taylor.
Highland's business strategy is very well-aligned with the banking needs of
the office's clientele. Our Woodlawn customers will begin receiving
information soon from Highland on the types of accounts it offers and I
believe they will be pleased with what they see."

   About Cole Taylor Bank

   Cole Taylor Bank, a subsidiary of Taylor Capital Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:
TAYC), specializes in meeting the unique financing, cash management and
wealth management needs of the owners of Chicago's closely-held companies.
One of Chicago's largest independent banks with more than $3 billion in
assets, Cole Taylor Bank has supplied sound financial guidance to
Chicago-area businesses for more than 75 years. Cole Taylor Bank is a
member of FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender.

SOURCE Cole Taylor Bank

http://www.coletaylor.com
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FEATURE-In Italy, bank mergers scant benefit to customers

2008-03-12T08:57:00.001-07:00

03.11.08, 9:04 AM ET

By Lisa Jucca and Deepa Babington

MILAN/ROME, March 11 (Reuters) - While turmoil in the financial markets threatens profits of banks worldwide, Italian lenders face an altogether different headache: growing pressure to share some of their fat profits with angry consumers.

A frenzy of mergers worth $159 billion in three years has turned the long-protected Italian banking industry from a ragtag bunch of small lenders into a more dynamic system boasting two of Europe's top 10 banks: UniCredit and Intesa Sanpaolo.

Bank of Italy chief Mario Draghi, the country's top banking regulator, had hoped the merger wave would push down Italy's notoriously high bank fees. But the emergence of local giants and the entry of major foreign lenders such as France's BNP Paribas (other-otc: BNPQY.PK - news - people ) and Credit Agricole have yet to trigger sharp changes.

Italians pay the highest fees of 25 EU countries to manage their bank accounts, according to a European Commission survey: consumer groups and regulators are ratcheting up pressure on banks to spread the benefits of the mergers to ordinary folk.

Being able to churn out high profit margins from simple retail banking services -- and the conservative outlook of their clients -- have helped Italian banks sidestep the credit crisis triggered by U.S. banks' exposure to subprime mortgages.

Some investment analysts argue Italian banks are better placeed than peers to tackle a slowing global economy.

"They mainly operate in the domestic market and their business mix is largely focused on the domestic retail business," Dresdner Kleinwort analysts said in a February note.

"This business model has reduced exposure to risky investment banking revenues ... and critically, has limited the impact of the recent liquidity squeeze."

Just over half of analyst recommendations on banks globally are neutral or bearish, according to Reuters Estimates data: on Intesa only around a third recommend investors hold or sell the shares, and for Unicredit that proportion sinks to 15 percent.

"Consolidation has brought more competition in banking services for companies. There is less evidence that competition has increased much for retail bank clients," said Marcello Messori, professor at Rome's Tor Vergata University and author of a recently published book, "The Power of Banks".

Indeed, foreign banks, lured by the prospect of high margins, have tended to charge the same high fees that have made banking one of Italy's most profitable domestic sectors, said economic analyst Anna Vizzari of consumer group Altroconsumo.

Italian banking group ABI says banks are forced to charge high fees because their own costs are high, while customers buy fewer financial products than in other countries.

"It's true that they (banking fees) are among the highest in Europe but we also have the highest number of front-office transactions," UniCredit CEO Alessandro Profumo said in January, partly blaming Italy's still widespread use of cash.

PRICEY BUSINESS

Italian banks have long been known for high fees and poor service. Forget more complex transactions like buying or selling foreign stocks, just opening a bank account means endless forms.

Until recently, closing an account was worse. Some customers paid as much as 450 euros for the privilege, says Altroconsumo.

Online banking is popular in many other countries, but Italians often can carry out basic transactions like cashing in cheques only at the branch where they opened their bank account. Fees of as much as 2 euros are slapped on each statement sent.

The Bank of Italy says completing a payment by cheque still takes an average of seven days, pointing out that Italy, one of the Group of Seven most developed nations, is considerably behind in the use of electronic payments.

Banks can refuse to accept certain payments by cheque if issued by another bank, forcing customers to carry out a bank transfer or use cash.

In all, Italians pay an average of 90 euros a year to maintain an account -- more than six times the EU average of 14 euros, the European Commission's Consumer Scoreboard 2008 shows.

"Every month I spend a whole lot on ATM fees and maintenance fees -- much more than any interest I ever get," says Cosimo Fanfani, a store manager aged 28, who for years left money idle in an account for fear of being hit with a closing fee. "Putting money in the bank seems to do more for the bank than for me."

Even interest rates charged for home mortgages and consumer credit are both higher than the euro area average, the Bank of Italy has said.

KEEPING THE HEAT ON

But pressure from consumers and regulators is starting to yield results. The outgoing centre-left government in 2006 made it illegal to impose fees to close accounts and in 2007 allowed customers to switch mortgages without paying a penalty.

Consumer groups hope the next government, due to be elected in April, will continue with reforms -- but they plan to keep up their fight. One group, Adusbef, plans to use newly introduced class action lawsuits to target banks charging a type of compound interest on loans that it likens to "usury".

Top Italian regulators have stepped up the pressure as well.

Draghi has repeatedly called on banks to boost transparency and cut fees. He has lauded recent improvements on the consumer front but called for swifter progress.

Italy's antitrust regulator Antonio Catricala has been even more vocal. He says his agency has seen a number of banks not applying new laws on fees, complaining that he too was once slapped with a large fee for paying off a mortgage early.

"It's clear that competition is possible only if there is transparency," said Catricala. "Banks can still do more to produce savings."

(Editing by Sara Ledwith)

Citigroup to merge Japan brokerage, banking units

2008-03-12T08:55:00.000-07:00

Tuesday March 11, 7:15 am ET
By David Dolan

TOKYO (Reuters) - Citigroup said on Tuesday it would merge its brokerage and investment banking units in Japan, as the faltering U.S. bank looks to bulk up in the world's second-largest economy, despite cutbacks elsewhere.

Citigroup, which lost $9.8 billion in the fourth quarter due to soured U.S. subprime loans, said it still planned an initial public offering of its fund management unit Nikko Asset Management, but no timing has been set.

Even as the U.S. firm continues to falter under massive losses from subprime investments, Citigroup's chief executive in Japan, Douglas Peterson, said it would not alter its plan to build a united banking and securities group in Japan.

"This commitment comes from the top of the organization, from our new CEO, Vikram Pandit," Peterson told a news conference.

After more than 100 years as a niche player in Japanese banking, the U.S. firm is now hoping to tap into the country's $13 trillion in household financial assets, most of which sits in low-yield savings accounts.

Citigroup said it would reshuffle its Japan organization over the next two years, bringing brokerage Nikko Cordial and investment bank Nikko Citigroup together as Nikko Citi Holdings.

The bank completed its acquisition of Nikko Cordial, Japan's third-largest brokerage, earlier this year, giving it full control of about 100 brokerage outlets and a name well-known to domestic investors.

After its big fourth-quarter loss, the bank has been on a push to improve its finances. In addition to raising $14.5 billion from foreign investors, the firm announced 4,200 job cuts.

JOB CUTS

A spokeswoman for Citigroup, Chikako Oki, declined to say how many of those cuts, if any, were in Tokyo. She also would not say whether or not the bank was considering cuts in the future.

Goldman Sachs analysts have said they expect the firm to cut jobs by up to 7 percent in coming months. That would work out to about 26,000 people, based on Citigroup's year-end total of 375,000 employees.

As part of its reorganization, Citigroup said it would focus on three areas: retail businesses such as securities and banking, institutional businesses such as investment banking, and alternative investments such as private equity and hedge funds.

The bank said it was still planning an IPO for Nikko Asset Management, and that it expected to transfer merchant banking unit Nikko Principal Investments to another Citigroup affiliate.

The reorganization plans come after the bank said last week it aims to cut its home loan exposure by $45 billion, and save $200 million a year in an overhaul of its U.S. residential mortgage business.

The bank also said last month it had completed the sale of its Japanese headquarters to Morgan Stanley, a deal the local press said was worth about 48 billion yen ($469.8 million).

Shares of Citigroup ended down 4.5 percent at 2,030 yen on the Tokyo exchange's market for foreign companies.

(Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)

Abu Dhabi Group buys Georgian bank

2008-03-12T08:49:00.001-07:00

United Arab Emirates: 12 hours, 7 minutes ago

The Abu Dhabi Group has purchased Georgia's Standard Bank for $42m, reported Reuters. as it seeks to tap economic growth in the former Soviet state. The Abu Dhabi Group is an investment company owned by a member of the ruling family of the emirate. Bashir Tahir, the group's CEO, said there is also a lot of interest in the former Soviet state from Europe and the US, and some neighbouring countries. He said the group's investment in the Georgian bank is long-term.

Dick Bove Says Banking Is Sound - Time to Buy Financials?

2008-03-10T06:24:00.000-07:00

Punk Ziegel's bank analyst Dick Bove has issued another strikingly rational report that provides tasty food for thought. This one is entitled "Wait! Stop! Think!". In it he argues that the media is fomenting hysteria about the situation in the banking industry, which in reality remains quite sound.

Bove's been around long enough to have seen this before as an analyst during the 1990 bank debacle. While the media and government figures continued to predict dire outcomes and questioned the viability of the banking industry, bank stocks actually bottomed in late 1990 and appreciated smartly thereafter.

Is today's crisis worse than 1990? Bove points out several issues that were present then that aren't now:

Developing countries were nearly bankrupt

LBO's were failing
Commodities were deflating
Commercial real estate was in over-supply due to a change in the tax laws
The credit derivatives market was in dire straits mainly due to the junk bond fiasco.
THOUSANDS of banks and thrifts failed.

The only direct parallel today is the credit market implosion. The other conditions don't exist. Only 76 of 8233 banks are on the FDIC watch list. Hence, it would be up to the credit market collapse to take the system down, which Bove says requires an implosion in the single-family mortgage market.

He estimates that if 50% of the sub-prime mortgages behind the credit derivatives market fail, and the collateral value of these loans is reduced to the land only (the houses are worth zero), that the total write down might be about $500B. Although painful, this would represent only 1% of the total debt outstanding in the US economy. It would easily be absorbed by the system.

There are other issues weighing on bank stocks:

A recent accounting change requires banks to value assets based on "comparables" rather than predicted cash flows. A variety of indexes were created to support this pricing requirement, yet the indexes lack liquidity and can be (and Bove believes are being) manipulated. The index which represents Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities is reflecting a default ratio of 6%, while actual defaults are at 0.27%. Yet banks must mark some of their assets to these indexes whether they reflect reality or not, deflating their balance sheets for no good reason.

Bank cash flows and true capital (as opposed to accounting entries which reflect a variety of non-cash adjustments) are actually in good shape. The current liquidity crisis is being caused by institutions unwilling to lend to one another, not by a true lack of funds. As opposed to a crisis where funds simply don't exist, a "fear of risk" based crisis will cure itself as interest rates adjust. Bove believes this is underway and may resolve itself soon.Bove picks apart yesterday's article in the Journal entitled "New Spasm Jolts Credit Markets" which made the following statement:"Rates banks charge each other remain elevated" - false because 3-month LIBOR has dropped (from 5.34% to 3% over the past 12 months) faster than Fed Funds signaling banks' willingness to lend to each other.

"The Price of insurance against bank debt default is soaring" - The point the journal makes here is that such insurance costs 20x what it did last summer. As Bove points out, that means it was one lousy forecaster of default last summer, so why should we believe it is a good indicator now? It is in fact a lagging, not a leading, indicator.

Interest rates on a variety of instruments are being "pushed up" - Then why is it that six months ago, 30 yr mortgages were 6.46% vs. 4.88% now, and AAA bonds were at 5.73% vs 5.48% today?"Banks are constrained for capital" - actually, common equity+reserves as a percentage of assets is just below an all time high. Bove believes the Journal (much like other media outlets, as I have previously commented) wants to sell bank panic just as it did in 1990. He notes that when he is quoted by reporters lately they highlight the negatives and ignore the positives. Bove concludes: "There is a financial panic underway fed by a definable problem; a steady flow of misinformation; bad accounting rules; manipulated indices; a lack of understanding of bank cash flows and capital; a demand for higher risk-adjusted returns; and a lack of financial leadership."

He believes that bank stocks in general should be bought. None other than Warren Buffet agrees, as he bought shares of Wells Fargo (WFC) last quarter (I own WFC in some of my managed accounts). I know that when most everyone is leaning one way and sentiment becomes extreme in one direction, my gut instinctively tells me it's overdone and that the smart thing to do is be a contrarian. At the very least, be wary of taking media reports and market zeitgeist at face value. Conversely, I pay close attention to the few rational intelligent voices willing to go against the herd.

KVB to launch new schemes by this June

2008-03-10T06:22:00.000-07:00

TIRUCHIRAPPALLI: The Karur Vysya bank will be launching two new schemes by June Bank At Your Doorstep (BATD) and Quick Cash Remittance (QCR), its Chairman P T Kuppuswamy said on Monday.

Under BATD, if a customer wants to deposit money in the bank, he can call up the branch manager and the money would be collected from his home, the Chairman said here at the inauguration of the 285th branch of the bank at Suriyur.

As per the QCR scheme, the customer would have to put the cash he wants to deposit in a cover and give it to the manager and it will be remitted into his account, Kuppuswamy said, adding the handing over of the money to the manager would be recorded on video.

The QCR scheme was under trial at the main branch at Karur and Coimbatore.

Bank's business would touch Rs 21,000 crore Rs 12,000 in deposits and Rs 9,000 advances by March end this year, said Kuppuswamy.

It also plans to open three branches including one at Chennai and Hyderabad.

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2008-03-10T06:18:00.001-07:00

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US Congress Opens Fire on Banking 'Fat Cats'

2008-03-10T06:10:00.000-07:00

Money – Stan O'Neal and Charles Prince were forced to defend themselves against allegations that they greedily enriched themselves even as their shareholders were forced to bear the collapse of investments as their banks wrote off billions of dollars of sub-prime losses.

Computer Business for Sale - $35000

2008-03-06T23:45:00.000-07:00

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Date: 2008-03-05, 9:02PM EST

Operating Computer Business for sale, includes physical assets, goodwill, existing customer base and existing customer contracts (monthly revenues). Potential is unlimited. 1 person can easily make 75,000 per year.
Sale price advertised is based on the existing business revenues, not on the potential.
Sale price right now is $25,000 and is firm, terms (down payment and balance) can be negotiated. Owner is retiring and has other obligations. Price will keep going up by 2,500 per week until sold. Owner will supply close support, provide marketing plans for expansion, and help with re-originization for period of 3 months and then support will continue over Internet for 6 months. All that is required is an interest in the computer field, good technical knowledge of computer software and hardware, good customer relations attitude and a little cash. This is a business that can be operated from your home.

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Computer science graduating class of 2007 smallest this decade

2008-03-06T23:43:00.000-07:00

But turnaround possible as new enrollments show signs of leveling off

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March 5, 2008 (Computerworld) Enrollments in computer science programs, which plunged after the dot-com bust, may have leveled off, according to new data from the Computing Research Association (CRA). The group follows year-over-year enrollment and graduate trends at 170 Ph.D.-granting institutions.

But this leveling is happening only after the number of bachelor's degree graduates has apparently hit a trough. In the 2006-'07 academic year, only 8,021 students graduated with computer science degrees from these schools -- the lowest number of graduates this decade.

By contrast, in 2003-'04 -- the high point of this decade -- 14,185 students were awarded bachelor's degrees in computer science, according to CRA data.

This sharp decline in graduates may be about to level off. In the fall of 2006, new computer science enrollments were at 7,840, and the CRA said new enrollments are now at 7,915 for the fall of 2007. The organization measures the numbers of students who have recently declared computer science as their major.

"It's too early to say if it's going to be a turnaround," said Jay Vegso, a CRA staff member who prepared the analysis and developed charts showing the trends, but he says the enrollment data over the last three years is showing a leveling off.

Interest in computer science soared during the late 1990s and in early 2000, but with the dot-com collapse and the increasing use of offshore outsourcing, it slumped. Vegso said the enrollments in computer science may be affected by interest in IT programs that aren't part of a computer science program.

What lies ahead for those grads? The CRA doesn't look at how well computer science students are doing upon graduation, but the general enrollment trend is often cited as an argument for increasing the H-1B visa cap, which is used by skilled workers. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has cited declines in computer science enrollment as a reason for opening up the U.S. to more skilled workers and will likely make that argument when he appears March 12 before the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee.

Vegso says students should be able to find job opportunities, based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projections showing IT jobs increasing by double digits.

The CRA, founded in 1972, is focused on research policy. Its board members include academic members from Indiana University, North Carolina State University, Dartmouth College, MIT, Carnegie Mellon University and other institutions, as well as corporate members including Microsoft, Intel, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.

Now a computer that can sense and feel

2008-03-06T23:40:00.001-07:00

Washington: Computers may now enable people to experience the most realistic sense of touch, perceiving textures or feeling hard surfaces, with the help of a radical new touch-based interface.

The interface, called haptic interface, relies on magnetic levitation and uses a single, lightweight moving part, unlike most other existing ones based on motors and bulky mechanical linkages and cables.

Although haptic interfaces have applications in engineering design, entertainment, assembly, remote operation of robots, and in medical and dental training, their full potential has yet to be explored.

"That's particularly the case for magnetic levitation haptic interfaces because so few have been available for use by researchers," said Ralph Hollis of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute.

Working on the prototype since 1997, Hollis fine-tuned its performance, enhanced its ergonomics and lowered its cost.

The team also built 10 copies, six of which are being distributed to haptic researchers across the US and Canada.

Nigeria: Columbia Business School Reviews Computer Warehouse

2008-03-06T23:38:00.000-07:00


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Computer warehouse Group, on Monday, February 18, 2008 brought joy to millions of Africans and African Businesses when on page 10 of the Financial Times Europe; she received very positive reviews from the Business Education Editor, Della Bradshaw.

A statement made available to THISDAY stated that Della Bradshaw had been following the progress of some students of the Columbia Business School who had travelled to Africa to identify companies on whom they could develop business case studies for MBA courses.

Austin Okere, the entrepreneur co-founder of the Computer Warehouse Group, a foremost Systems Integration company, being a graduate of IESE in Barcelona, understood how case studies were used in Business schools. But an academic study of a Nigerian company, he believes, would be different from US or European case studies. He believes that putting the story of the Computer Warehouse Group out there would correct the stereotype that the Nigerian business environment was characterized by corrupt practices.

Professor Murray Low, the Director of the entrepreneurial ship programme at Columbia Business School could not agree more. He believed that the lack of teaching materials about African companies has been a pitfall.

Ryan Petersen, who led the team studying Computer Warehouse in Lagos reported that while there is generally very little information and historical records to accurately value a company in Africa, he was very pleasantly surprised at the depth of professionalism in maintaining Financial records at Computer Warehouse and the corporate governance structures instituted in the 15 years running of the company.

Okere seems to have achieved precisely what he set out to do with the CBS case study on his company.

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The boom in the Nigerian economy coupled with very little investments in education over the years has brought about an acute shortage of skilled resources. The major multinationals who troop into the country have very deep pockets with which they attract the best staff from the local companies. This has not been the case with Computer Warehouse.

When Okere asked Ryan Petersen and his team to act as independent consultants to get feedback on the morale of his staff, he emphatically reported that the employees are very happy with the independence and entrepreneurial spirit in the organisation and the opportunity to grow. Petersen says wistfully "I wish I could have a business where employees were so motivated"

Petersen's blog has generated a lot of debate on the internet as well as appreciation to Columbia Business School and the Computer Warehouse Group for helping to correct the age long negative stereotype of business on the continent and to Financial Times Europe for the exposure.


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Computer-age injuries decline

2008-03-06T23:34:00.000-07:00

By ELLEN SIMON

The Associated Press

ORLIN WAGNER / AP

Nurse Terri Janda, at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas, assists Sara Browning at a training session to avoid carpal tunnel.

NEW YORK — Can a workplace epidemic be cured?

With the personal-computing boom of the 1990s came thousands of "repetitive stress injuries" or "repetitive strain injuries." RSI became the hip medical acronym of the keyboard era, with subset carpal-tunnel syndrome the diagnosis of the day.

"At its height of diagnosis, anybody showing up at a doctor's office with wrist pain or hand pain was being diagnosed with carpal tunnel," said Carol Harnett, vice president of insurer Hartford Financial Services Group's group-benefits division.

Since then, carpal-tunnel cases have plummeted, declining 21 percent in 2006 alone, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Among workers in professional and business services, the number of carpal-tunnel-syndrome cases fell by half between 2005 and 2006.

What changed?

First, it may not have been the white-collar epidemic it appeared to be.

Mayo Clinic study

A 2001 study by the Mayo Clinic found heavy computer users (up to seven hours a day) had the same rate of carpal tunnel as the general population. Harvard University headlined a 2005 news release "Computer use deleted as carpal tunnel syndrome cause."

"Clearly, if keyboarding activities were a significant risk for carpal tunnel, we should have seen, over the last ten to 15 years, an explosion of cases," said Dr. Kurt Hegmann, director of the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational & Environmental Health.

Blue-collar workers, especially those doing assembly-line work such as sewing, cleaning and meat or poultry packing, have a far greater incidence of carpal tunnel than white-collar workers, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Artificially high number?

That doesn't mean white-collar workers don't get carpal tunnel and related disorders. But it may mean such disorders were overdiagnosed, resulting in an artificially high number of cases by the late 1990s. Most doctors have dropped the term "RSI," calling them "musculoskeletal disorders."

Now, some experts think some of those patients had "referred pain" from trouble elsewhere, such as the neck.

Other theories claim attention to ergonomics has prevented injuries or that they have become underreported.

Clay Scott, now an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, developed severe wrist pain during college at Harvard University.

His recovery started with physical therapy. It took three or four years for him to recover, he said.

"I was hurting myself for about two years before figuring it out and realizing I needed to change my work habits."

Some businesses have been focusing on prevention, part of a growing effort by employers to keep their workers healthy.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas started a program in 1991, when costs of the injuries to its employees passed $500,000.

It bought ergonomic chairs and desks, introduced ergonomic assessments for new employees during their first two weeks of work and hired two full-time registered nurses to work with employees.

Since the program started, the company's workers' compensation costs have fallen by 62 percent, said Terri Janda, a nurse who leads the Blue Cross program.

Said Barbara Silverstein, research director at the Washington state Department of Labor and Industries, "People have gotten the message about how to design work, so people aren't as at risk as in the past."

California is the only state with an ergonomic standard, according to Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

But Hegmann sounds a note of caution.

As carpal tunnel is strongly linked with aging, obesity and diabetes, "It means we should have more cases than we have," Hegmann said.

Some of the reduction in cases, he said, "may be due to the realization that it's a common situation; there's no rush to do anything about it."

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Oregon farmers turn to automation, computer technology

2008-03-06T23:33:00.004-07:00

by Eric Mortenson, The Oregonian
Tuesday March 04, 2008, 6:53 PM

Vision Robotics Corp.A technician monitors a scout robot that uses stereoscopic cameras to digitally map the location of apples in an orchard row. The information would be downloaded to a second harvester robot that would pick the fruit.

Robots won't be replacing capable farmhands anytime soon, but as Oregon's farmers begin working their fields and crop rows this spring they're increasingly turning to automation and computer technology to save fuel, time, expensive fertilizer and labor.

Stahlbush Island Farms in Corvallis, one of the state's pioneers in organic and sustainable agriculture, replaced nine conventional tractors with four equipped with ground positioning system technology, allowing them to operate faster, straighter and with much greater precision. The farm's goal is to reduce chemical and fertilizer use through mechanization and computer technology,

Precision farming, as it's called, allows for that substitution, owner Karla Chambers said. "Typically the first exchange for chemicals is labor and the second is technology. If you want to get away from herbicides, you have a human labor solution or a technology solution."

Simply reducing the amount of tractor overlap by using a guidance system while working a field saves fuel and time and lessens soil compaction. Technology has allowed Stahlbush Island Farms to reduce what are called inputs -- such as seed, fertilizer, water -- by 2 or 3 percent, Chambers said. "Just run the math on that over 2,000 to 10,000 acres, and that's pretty huge."

When Dave Kauer of Amity put in a new 40-acre blueberry field last summer, a crew from a farm implement dealership used a GPS-guided tractor to mark where to plant each bush, in a perfect checkerboard pattern. Straight rows are crucial to efficient care and harvest of permanent bushes or orchard trees, and a crew using the old manual method of stringing cable at right angles might have taken several days. One man and a tractor did it in eight hours.

Blueline Manufacturing, based outside Yakima, Wash., builds self-propelled, self-steering harvest platforms that transports workers down apple orchard rows at a level where they can prune, thin or pick fruit. The device can eliminate ladders, and it stemmed from a time-motion study that showed pickers weren't picking 42 percent of the time: They were moving, setting or climbing up and down ladders and lugging fruit to bins instead.

Vision Robotics Corp.With the fruit locations mapped, now comes the hard part: Developing harvester arms with the dexterity to pick apples or pears without bruising them.

Company President Gregg Marrs said he's sold 30 to 40 of the platforms, which cost $35,000 to $60,000. They can pay for themselves in labor savings within a year and a half, Marrs said.

"As time goes on, it's an accepted fact that there will be more and more technology entering into agriculture," he said. "A big change is coming."

Fisher Implement, a farm equipment and supply chain with eight Oregon stores, now has three employees assigned solely to precision farming sales and service.

Technology is available now to create a "prescription" map of fields, said Fisher salesman Eric Wavra, who works out of the company's Salem store. Compiling data from ground nutrient sampling, farmers can determine the fertilizer needs of field sections. That data can be downloaded to a GPS system. When the tractor reaches an area that's been mapped, it signals the applicator to deliver more or less fertilizer as required.

The savings can add up quickly. Urea fertilizer, prized for its high nitrogen content, costs $600 per ton -- and the standard application on an expansive wheat field may be 325 pounds per acre. If that can be reduced because the soil's in good shape, the farmer saves money.

"It's not in the financial best interests of our customers to be over-applying," Wavra said. "That's where these systems pay back very quickly."

Wavra said farmers often ask him what change technology will bring next. "I always tell the guys, 'You tell me,' " he said. "All the farmers out here are a bunch of troubleshooters and test engineers -- a giant think tank, basically."

More technology is spreading. Infrared identification of weeds allows spot application of herbicides, reducing the amount used around crops. Center-pivot or drip line irrigation systems use 25 percent to 50 percent less water than older sprinkler systems.

Large retailers -- beginning with WalMart in 2005 -- are responding to food safety concerns by encouraging or even requiring growers to use radio frequency identification to track the harvest, handling and shipment of fruits and vegetables.

Electronic product code tags attached to crops or livestock can store information about the variety, where it came from and when it was harvested. The radio frequency identification technology also can track and record temperatures in shipping containers, important to ensuring quality.

Meanwhile, the Internet now allows farmers to do direct marketing to customers, said Brent Searle, special assistant to the director of the Oregon Department of Agriculture. "That's their storefront, which wasn't possible 10 years ago. People all over the world can access one little farm."

Technology will result in farm management decisions increasingly being made on a "data-centric" basis, said Derek Morikawa, chief executive officer of Vision Robotics Corp. in San Diego, Calif. Data overlaid with GPS mapping could provide "tree by tree, vine by vine" information on pest detection, water or fertilizer needs, fruit quality, harvest timing and yields.

Even more stark changes may be on the way. Morikawa looks down the row several years and sees robots picking the Northwest's apples and pears.

His company is working on a pair that would work in tandem: A scout robot, loaded with stereoscopic cameras, would creep down a row and map the location of each piece of fruit. The information would be transmitted to a trailing harvester, which would send multiple arms into the foliage and gently pick the crop with humanlike mechanical hands.

Vision Robotics has built a robot grapevine pruner and is perhaps three to four years away from developing a fruit picker for field testing, Morikawa said. Washington fruit growers and California citrus growers are working with the company.

Morikawa said he can imagine, within 10 years, a field supervisor sitting in a trailer in the middle of a large orchard or vineyard, monitoring the work of five to 10 robots. "You can see this is going to happen. It may not be us, but it's definitely going to happen."

Labor -- or the lack of it -- is driving the interest in robotics, Morikawa said. Fruit picking and other farm labor crews are largely made up of Hispanic workers, and by some estimates 75 percent of them have what's delicately called "documentation issues," meaning they may be in the country illegally. Farmers worry that immigration policies may wipe out a crucial labor source.

"If labor continues to be cheap and plentiful, there's not going to be much of a demand to have us come in and help out," Morikawa said. "I think the writing's on the wall that (farmers) need technological partners and they need to look for something to fill in the gap."

That's what Clark Seavert wants to tap into. Seavert hopes to build an agriculture technology center at Oregon State University's North Willamette Research and Extension Center in Aurora. As he envisions it, the center would not develop new technology but would work with the private sector to adapt technology to agricultural uses.

Seavert, the research station superintendent, estimates a technology center would require two or three faculty positions and cost $350,000 to $400,000 per year to operate. He plans to host an agricultural technology summit this summer to get the idea off the ground.

-- Eric Mortenson; ericmortenson@news.oregonian.com

Computer Sciences sells $1.7B in notes

2008-03-06T23:33:00.003-07:00

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) - Technology consulting and outsourcing company Computer Sciences Corp. said Monday it sold $1.7 billion worth of senior notes.

The sale includes $700 million worth of senior notes due 2013, which carry 5.5 percent interest, and $1 billion worth of senior notes due 2018, which carry 6.5 percent interest.

The proceeds will be used to repay borrowing used to finance the purchase of Conansys Corp. and for general corporate purposes.

Computer Sciences shares fell 22 cents to close at $43.23.

UK-Manchester: computer hardware

2008-03-06T23:33:00.000-07:00

2008/S 46-063122

CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE

Supplies

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S):

Address: Organisation: The University of Manchester,

Kilburn Building

, Contact: Research Computing Services, Attn: Ms Joyce Dodson, Country code: UK-Manchester Postal code: M13 9PL. Tel. +44 (0)161 275 6095. E-mail: joyce.dodson@manchester.ac.uk. Fax +44 (0)161 275 0637.

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: www.manchester.ac.uk.

Address of the buyer profile: www.manchester.ac.uk/researchcomputing.

I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:

Other: University.

Education.

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes.

SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT

II.1) DESCRIPTION

II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:

NW GRID - 2.

II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance:

Supplies.

A combination of purchase, lease, rental and hire purchase.

Main place of delivery: University of Lancaster and University of Liverpool

NUTS code Location: "Lancashire">UKD4.

II.1.3) The notice involves:

II.1.4) Short description of the contract or purchase(s):

A consortium of the Daresbury Laboratory, the University of Lancaster, the University of Liverpool, and the University of Manchester, has been awarded funds by the North West Development agency for a project entitled NW-GRID. The aim of this project is to develop a computational grid in the north west of England, and to promote its use both within and outwith the consortium The consortium invites tenders for the provision of 2 HPC Systems (in 2 lots) for Lancaster and Liverpool to enhance the current infrastructure. The decision on the successful tenderer will be made on the basis of the information in the tender documentation.

II.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):

CPV code: "Computer hardware">30230000 , CPV code: "Computers">30231100 , CPV code: "Computer software">30241000 .

II.1.6) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):

No.

II.2) TOTAL FINAL VALUE OF CONTRACT(S)

II.2.1) Total final value of contract(s):

SECTION IV: PROCEDURE

IV.1) TYPE OF PROCEDURE

IV.1.1) Type of procedure:

Open.

IV.2) AWARD CRITERIA

IV.2.1) Award criteria:

The most economically advantageous tender in terms of

1. Fitness for purpose, including evaluation of benchmarks. Weighting: 35 %.

2. Value for money, cost effectiveness (including total cost of ownership aspects). Weighting: 30 %.

3. Technical merit, including aesthetic and functional characteristics. Weighting: 15 %.

4. After-sales service and technical support. Weighting: 10 %.

5. Support towards achieving the aims of the North West Grid. Weighting: 10 %.

IV.2.2) An electronic auction was used:

No.

IV.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the Contracting Authority:

2007/264/NWGRID/TH.

IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:

No.

SECTION V: AWARD OF CONTRACT

CONTRACT NO: Liverpool/Lancaster NW-Grid 2

TITLE: NW-Grid 2

V.1) DATE OF CONTRACT AWARD:

1.2.2008.

V.2) NUMBER OF OFFERS RECEIVED:

V.3) NAME AND ADDRESS OF ECONOMIC OPERATOR TO WHOM THE CONTRACT HAS BEEN AWARDED:

Address: Organisation: Streamline Computing,

The Innovation Centre, Warwick Technology Park, Gallows Hill

, Country code: UK-Warwick Postal code: CV34 6UW.

V.4) INFORMATION ON VALUE OF CONTRACT

V.5) THE CONTRACT IS LIKELY TO BE SUB-CONTRACTED:

No.

SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

VI.1) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY COMMUNITY FUNDS:

No.

VI.2) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

VI.3) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL:

VI.3.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures:

Body responsible for mediation procedures:

VI.3.2) Lodging of appeals:

Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: This authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the contracting authority before the contract is entered into. Applicants have two working days from notification of the award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before expiry of the standstill period. Such additional information should be requested from the address in section 1.1.

If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the (for Public Sector) Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5)(for Utilities) utilities contracts Regulations (SI 2005 No6) (delete where appropriate) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3 months). Where a contract has not been entered into the court may order the settling aside of the award decision or order the authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into the court may only award damages.

VI.3.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:

VI.4) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:

4.3.2008.

Government tender content courtesy of TED / European Commission

Computer virus exposes Ore. donors data

2008-03-06T23:24:00.000-07:00

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A computer virus attack may have exposed the personal information of more than 11,000 people who donated to a Central Oregon hospital system.

Cascade Healthcare Community says a computer virus attack hit its system in December, and the company noticed suspicious activity in the system in February. A computer forensics expert confirmed the virus had caused the breach.

This hospital system says the names, dates of birth and potentially the credit card numbers of the donors were exposed. It says no patient information was compromised.

Hospital officials say they are working with Bend police for further investigation.

Gates no longer world's richest man

2008-03-06T23:23:00.001-07:00

Gates no longer world's richest man

Thursday 6-Mar-2008 5:43 PM Ring of Death takes its toll?

Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man, according Forbes magazine's annual ranking of the world's wealthiest people.

Gates, who had held the position since 1995, fell to third place on the list, which was released Wednesday.

He was beaten by investment tycoon Warren Buffet and Carlos Slim, a Mexican telecoms expert.

The drop is speculatively due to Microsoft's stock fluctuations this year and his decision to step away from full-time work in order to focus on charity. Not really anything to do with Three Red Lights then.

Still, it doesn't exactly mean he's out on the streets. His personal fortune is estimated to be around $58 billion, which is approximately fourteen times the amount of money the entire Star Wars saga has grossed since 1977. Not bad at all...

Chris Hicks

Taiwan's High Tech Computer Feb parent sales 9.63 bln twd vs 6.60 bln

2008-03-06T23:21:00.003-07:00

TAIPEI (XFN-ASIA) - High Tech Computer Corp (2498.TW) said its parent-level sales rose to 9.63 bln twd in February from 6.60 bln achieved in the same month last year.

For the two months to February, parent sales stood at 21.66 bln twd against 14.50 bln a year earlier.

High Tech Computer shares today closed up 25.00 twd or 3.76 pct at 690.00.

(1 usd = 30.80 twd)

adela.lin@afxasia.com

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local council

2008-03-06T23:21:00.001-07:00

Fancy asking the local council? Well, according to the survey, only one in seven councils could say what would happen with the computer after it was recycled and only two fifths of councils who said they'd recycle a computer could say with certainty that equipment would actually be recycled. One council worker said: 'They just literally go into the landfill; they get smashed apart.' You really don't want to know what they said about your personal data.

According to Which?, you should use specialist software to remove your data, then take your PC to a recycling point. PC retailers also offer free 'take-back' facilities for customers and some charities take old PCs - some councils do have details of this.

[Via Tech Digest]

Saving money on computer purchases

2008-03-06T23:21:00.000-07:00

by Peter Harrington

Everybody knows how fast technology can lose its value. It only takes a couple months before you brand spanking new computer is considered a lower end model. And nobody wants to spend their hard earned cash on something that has peaked after such a short time of ownership.

The solution? You really have a couple of options, but the first thing you need to do is to evaluate what you really need a from a computer. It is very possibly that you purchased a high end video card last time that was never fully utilized. Once you have figured out exactly what you need from a computer you should know whether you need a high end model or a lower end model.

If you don’t put a lot of pressure on your machine and think that a lower end model is for you. I would suggest shopping around for a used machine. Don’t go out a buy a 3 year old machine, but find somebody who purchases a new computer every 6 months and try to buy their old one. That way you can have a good computer without the giant price tag.

A second option, this is probably better for users who want a higher performance, is to build your own computer. Go online and build a list of parts or find a computer you like and copy the list of parts. You can build the computer yourself for a lot cheaper then what you would pay if you bought the whole package from retail. If your not sure how to build a computer try asking some of your friends. Tech people love putting things together and they would probably be more then willing to help you out.

Good luck and happy computing!

http://www.moneymanagementandyou.com/

NSW police to seize computer networks

2008-03-06T23:17:00.000-07:00

NSW police will be given new powers enabling them to seize entire computer networks to help track child pornography traders and terrorist suspects.

Police Minister David Campbell said legislation would be introduced to NSW Parliament to allow authorities to search networked computers where criminals may have hidden incriminating material.

Civil libertarians have called the move an unreasonable, invasive expansion of police powers, with small-time copyright pirates likely to be the big losers.

Currently, police are able to search only computers found in homes and offices named in a search warrant.

Mr Campbell said he had been advised that an increasing number of criminals were using computer networks to commit and conceal crimes, prompting the extended powers.

"Under these proposed new powers, police would be able to go beyond computers located in criminals' homes and offices and infiltrate networked computers where criminals have hidden incriminating material," Mr Campbell said.

"With these extended powers, police would be able to go a step further, accessing and searching other networked computers regardless of their physical location."

Mr Campbell said giving police seven days to search the seized hardware would allow them time to decode encrypted information.

The new legislation would ensure police kept "pace with ever changing technology", he said.

"Organised crime operations and paedophile rings are using sophisticated techniques to perpetrate and conceal their crimes," he added.

However, the NSW Council for Civil Liberties said police presently had adequate powers to crack down on those types of serious illegal activities.

Council president Cameron Murphy said it was unreasonable for police to seize an entire network which may include large numbers of computers not related to a crime.

"It means that people who have nothing to do with the crime under investigation, people (who) have done nothing wrong, may have their computers taken," Mr Murphy said.

"For example, police may be investigating intellectual property crimes at a university, this sort of power would also allow them to seize other computers at the university."

Mr Murphy said police already had the power to obtain a warrant to monitor or gain access to computers involved in organised crime.

He said it also could lead to an increase in the number of people charged over minor crimes such as using pirated software or illegal downloads.

"You may also end up with a number of people who have had their computer seized being charged because police then discover that some offence has occurred and history has proven that in those cases its usually minor cases," Mr Murphy said.

Last November, after the government made permanent the additional police powers granted following Sydney's Cronulla riot, Mr Murphy said more, not less police accountability was required.

http://news.smh.com.au/

News

2008-03-06T23:16:00.000-07:00

News

Elusive iMac slowly turning up online

You might have to search a bit, but you can find Apple Computer's new iMac online--and you might not have to pay much more than the retail price.
iMac supply dwindling, dealers report

Apple Computer seems to be phasing out the current generation of iMacs by "dumping" the consumer systems through retailer warehouses. Is the company clearing the decks for a new generation of the consumer desktop system?
How Apple could fight Cisco

A mobile phone is to an Internet phone as an airplane is to a faucet?
Is Apple stocking its own shelves first?

Shortages of a hot new product have Macintosh dealers grumbling that Apple Computer is showing preferential treatment to company-owned retail stores--something the company promised would not happen.
Think different: Tests to iMac claims

Two days before the iMac went on sale, Apple interim CEO Steve Jobs said the new system "toasts the fastest PC money can buy at any price -- the Pentium II 400."
iMac hitting Apple's wall of China?

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan, home to most of the world's PC components, has long been a double-edged sword for Apple and its users.
New Power Macs break 1GHz barrier--twice

Apple Computer has broken the 1GHz barrier not once but twice with the delivery of new Power Macs.
Jobs: Jaguar, new iPods, new iMac and. . . Windows?

As the Mac faithful gather in New York, Apple CEO Steve Jobs rallies to the defense of the Mac OS X operating system and trots out new hardware, including a bigger iMac and iPods for Windows.
New Macs hitting retail shelves

In the past, Power Macs have actually reached customers weeks after the expected date, but this season's lineup of new models seems to be moving smoothly through the sales channel.
Apple agrees to some OS X refunds

Apple Computer has reached a tentative settlement in a class-action lawsuit that alleged the company had failed to fully support Mac OS X on some G3-based Macs.

School Computer Roll-Out Begins

2008-03-06T23:07:00.001-07:00

More than 900 high schools will be the first to receive new computers from the federal government, after an audit found their existing equipment was not up to scratch.

But federal Education Minister Julia Gillard is refusing to say which schools have made the shortlist.

Initial results from a government audit show there is an average of one computer for every five students in years nine to 12 across Australia.

Computers more than four years old were not included in the audit.

Ms Gillard said the 937 schools in greatest need had a ratio of one computer for every eight students, or worse.

Those schools will receive the first $100 million, to be delivered by June, of the government's overall $1 billion package to give every student in years nine to 12 access to a computer at school.

http://news.smh.com.au/audit-finds-937-schools-lac k-computers/20080305-1x3p.html

Of the 937 schools invited to apply for priority funding, about 70 per cent were public, 20 per cent Catholic and 10 per cent independent, Ms Gillard said.

Rudd's computer pledge unplugged

2008-03-06T23:07:00.000-07:00

By Sue Dunlevy

March 06, 2008 12:00am

THE nation's neediest high schools will get money to buy 100,000 computers before June 30 but the Rudd Government cannot say who will pay for the powerpoints to plug them in.

The schools who benefit from the first instalment of the $1 billion program will not get the promised ratio of one computer for every senior student.

Instead, the ratio will be one computer for every two students in Years 9 to 12.

These schools will have to wait till 2010 to get one computer per student.

The first round of funding will go to the nation's neediest 937 high schools.

Public schools will get 70 per cent of the funding, Catholic schools 20 per cent and independent schools 10 per cent.

While the $1 billion program has been widely welcomed, Labor backbenchers have warned ministers that schools are not equipped to handle the extra technology.

Most do not have enough powerpoints in classrooms to plug in the new computers. And a survey of teachers this year found two-thirds needed more training on using computers in the classroom.

Education Minister Julia Gillard yesterday refused to say who would pay for the computers to be installed.

"We are working with our state and territory colleagues to make sure computers are in settings in which they can be used," Ms Gillard said.

http://www.news.com.au

DIARY - U.S Meetings for week ahead

2008-03-06T23:04:00.000-07:00

Source: Reuters

Posted: 03/06/08 4:08AM

Filed Under: Investing

11 Mar DRI Corp Investor Conf 11 Mar 12:40 Entravision Comm.s Corp at Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. Media Conf 11 Mar Epic Bancorp at Sandler O'Neill West Coast Conf 11 Mar 16:00 Equitable Resources Inc Security Analyst Conf 11 Mar 14:00 EW Scripps Co at Bear Stearns Media Conf 11 Mar 18:00 F5 Networks Inc Annual Shareholders Meeting 11 Mar 21:30 Frontier Financial Corp at Sandler O'Neill Financial Conf 11 Mar 13:40 Gaiam Inc at Bank of America Consumer Conf 11 Mar 19:40 Gray Television Inc at Bear Stearns Media Conf 11 Mar 18:15 Heritage Financial Corp at Sandler O'Neill Financial Conf 11 Mar 20:15 Hi/fn Inc at Montgomery Tech. Conf 11 Mar 17:40 Hormel Foods Corp at Bank of America Consumer Conf 11 Mar Humana Inc at Credit Suisse On-Site 11 Mar 19:20 Iconix Brand Group Inc at Bank of America Consumer Conf 11 Mar 19:00 Idearc Inc at Bear Stearns Media Conf 11 Mar 15:30 Itex Corp at Montgomery Tech. Conf 11 Mar 15:00 Lamar Advertising Co at Bear Stearns Media Conf 11 Mar 18:20 Liberty Media Corp at Bear Stearns Media Conf 11 Mar 15:40 LIN TV Corp at Bear Stearns Media Conf 11 Mar 12:00 Lowe's Co. Inc at Bank of America Consumer Conf 11 Mar 19:20 Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc at BOA Consumer Conf 11 Mar 13:00 MasterCard Inc at JPMorgan Payment Processing Day 11 Mar 15:40 McGraw-Hill Co. Inc at Bear Stearns Media Conf 11 Mar 21:00 Microtune Inc at Montgomery & Co Tech. Conf 11 Mar 13:20 Moody's Corp at Bear Stearns Media Conf 11 Mar Network Appliance Inc Analyst Day 11 Mar 13:20 New York Times Co at Bear Stearns Media Conf 11 Mar 18:20 Nexstar Broadcasting Group Inc at Bear Stearns Media Conf 11 Mar 12:40 Outdoor Channel Hldngs Inc at Bear Stearns Media Conf 11 Mar 21:30 Pacific Continental Corp at Sandler O'Neill Financial Conf 11 Mar 18:30 Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc at Bank of America Consumer Conf 11 Mar PeopleSupport Inc at Montgomery Tech. Conf 11 Mar 13:40 Phillips-Van Heusen Corp at Bank of America Consumer Conf 11 Mar Piper Jaffray Co. & ChinaVenture Investment Conf 11 Mar 16:25 PremierWest Bancorp at Sandler O'Neill Financial Conf 11 Mar 16:30 Qualcomm Inc Annual Shareholders Meeting 11 Mar 18:20 RealNetworks Inc at Bear Stearns Media Conf 11 Mar 14:00 RH Donnelley Corp at Bear Stearns Media Conf 11 Mar 21:30 Riverview Bancorp, Inc at Sandler O'Neill Financial Conf 11 Mar 18:30 Sanderson Farms Inc at Bank of America Consumer Conf 11 Mar 17:40 Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc at Bear Stearns Media Conf 11 Mar Sonus Networks Inc at Credit Suisse Comm.s Conf 11 Mar 20:45 Sterling Financial Corp at Sandler O'Neill Financial Conf 11 Mar 19:00 TiVo Inc at Bear Stearns Media Conf 11 Mar 13:40 Tupperware Brands Corp at Bank of America Consumer Conf 11 Mar 15:50 UCBH Hldngs Inc at Sandler O'Neill West Coast Financial Conf 11 Mar 14:40 Under Armour Inc at Bank of America Consumer Conf 11 Mar 18:20 ValueClick Inc at Bear Stearns Media Conf 11 Mar 11:00 Veraz Networks Inc at Credit Suisse Boston Comm.s Conf 11 Mar 20:10 Weight Watchers Intl. Inc at Bank of America Consumer Conf 11 Mar 21:30 West Coast Bancorp at Sandler O'Neill WestCoast Financial Conf 11 Mar 14:40 Winn Dixie Stores Inc at Bank of America Consumer Conf 11 Mar 17:40 Zions Bancorp at Sandler O'Neill West Coast Financial Conf 12 Mar ACCO Brands Corp at Lehman Bros High Yield Bond Conf 12 Mar 18:30 Advance Auto Parts Inc at Bank of America Consumer Conf 12 Mar 18:30 Applied Biosystems Inc Investor Meeting 12 Mar 14:40 Bankrate Inc at Bear Stearns Media Conf 12 Mar 18:30 Bon-Ton Stores Inc at Bank of America Consumer Conf 12 Mar 19:20 Brunswick Corp at Bank of America Consumer Conf 12 Mar 19:45 Carrols Restaurant Group at Lehman Bros High Yield Conf 12 Mar 20:00 Celera Group Investor Meeting 12 Mar Collective Brands Inc at Banc of America Securites Conf 12 Mar 12:30 ConocoPhillips Analysts Meeting 12 Mar 13:40 Dick's Sporting Goods Inc at Bank of America Consumer Conf 12 Mar 13:40 Dress Barn Inc at Bank of America Consumer Conf 12 Mar El Paso Electric Co at Goldman Sachs Investor Tour 12 Mar 19:45 Ferro Corp at Lehman Bros.High Yield Bond Conf 12 Mar 22:30 First Financial Bankshares Inc Investor Meeting (Weatherford) 12 Mar 12:30 Freddie Mac Investor Conf 12 Mar 20:10 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co Inc at BOA Consumer Conf 12 Mar 18:30 Hain Celestial Group Inc at Bank of America Consumer Conf 12 Mar 16:00 Iconix Brand Group Inc at Lehman Bros High Yield Bond Conf 12 Mar 18:00 Intl. Game Tech. at at Deutsche Bank Securities HospitaltyConf 12 Mar 12:50 Jack in the Box Inc at Bank of America Consumer Conf 12 Mar 12:00 Kohl's Corp at Bank of America Consumer Conf 12 Mar 13:40 Kroger Co at Bank of America Consumer Conf 12 Mar 14:40 Liberty Global Inc at Bear Stearns Media Conf 12 Mar 12:00 Life TimeFitness Inc at Banc ofAmerica SecuritiesConsumer Conf 12 Mar 19:20 Macy's Inc at Bank of America Consumer Conf 12 Mar 17:40 Mattel Inc at Bank of America Consumer Conf 12 Mar 19:20 McCormick& SchmickSeafood Restaurants Inc at BOA Consumer Conf 12 Mar 12:30 MDU Resources Group Inc Analysts Meeting 12 Mar Neenah Paper Inc Special Meeting of Shareholders 12 Mar Newmont Mining Corp at Reuters Global Mining and Steel Summit 12 Mar 15:30 Nordstrom Inc at Banc of America Securities Consumer Conf 12 Mar 15:30 ON Semiconductor Corp Special Shareholders Meeting 12 Mar 16:00 PAETEC Hldng Corp at Lehman Bros.High Yield Bond Conf 12 Mar Range Resources Corp at Lehman Brothers High Yield Bond Conf 12 Mar Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc at Lehman High Yield Conf 12 Mar 13:20 Sirius Satellite Radio Inc at Bear Stearns Media Conf 12 Mar 12:40 Sprint Nextel Corp at Bear Stearns Media Conf 12 Mar 14:00 Time Warner Cable Inc at Bear Stearns Media Conf 12 Mar 14:00 Time Warner Inc at Bear Stearns Media Conf 12 Mar TXCO Resources Inc at Dahlman Rose& Co.EnergySupply Chain Conf 12 Mar Unit Corp at Dahlman Rose & Co. 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