Women and finance: a hot market to tap? (at Fortune)
Venture capitalist Theresia Ranzetta, who wrote Tuesday's Guest Post about how Silicon Valley can best enable entrepreneurs, did some serious enabling herself this week. Her firm, Accel Partners, announced a $4.5 million investment in LearnVest, a start-up aimed at women who control household purse strings but are fairly flummoxed by the challenge. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Former Moody's exec didn't know Paulson shorted ABACUS (Reuters)
A former senior official at Moody's Corp on Friday said he did not know hedge fund manager John Paulson was shorting a Goldman Sachs derivatives product when he was rating it. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Longevity and mortality risk market takes shape (at Financial Times)
Plans to create a tradeable, liquid market in longevity and mortality risks will take a step forward on Monday when a group of banks and insurers launches the methodology and governance framework for a longevity index. us.rd.yahoo.com |
HSBC faces thorny issues in hunt for new chairman
[Reuters] - For a bank that prides itself on smooth successions, HSBC is suddenly scrambling to pick its next chairman. us.rd.yahoo.com |
SBA Component Beneficial in Small Business Bill, Newtek Says
[GlobeNewswire] - NEW YORK -- Congress has completed passage of the Small Business Jobs Bill, H.R 5297, continuing higher government guarantees and lower fees on Small Business Administration 7 loans which will be highly beneficial for small business, according to Barry Sloane, President and CEO of Newtek Business Services, Inc. us.rd.yahoo.com |