Sentences with phrase «global financial infrastructures»

The irony here is that for the first time ever individual entrepreneurs working in garages and community work spaces around the world are being empowered through blockchain to build technologies with the power to disrupt a variety of global financial infrastructures.

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Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Based in our London office, Marcus Treacher will apply his extensive background in payments and banking infrastructure to help implement and commercialize Ripple's distributed financial technology on a global scale.

Ultimately, the United States needs to invest in its financial infrastructure to remain a global economic power.

Ripple's distributed financial technology modernizes global infrastructure, so funds settle in real time.

Chanticleer Spark Infrastructure's purchase of a 14 per cent stake in Duet Group is further proof that Australia's infrastructure market is the middle of the sort of sizzling boom that occurred before the global finInfrastructure's purchase of a 14 per cent stake in Duet Group is further proof that Australia's infrastructure market is the middle of the sort of sizzling boom that occurred before the global fininfrastructure market is the middle of the sort of sizzling boom that occurred before the global financial crisis.

Take Ivory Coast.I find it difficult understanding why an academician or to be more specific, an accomplished economist of Dr Bawumia's calibre.Let me quote here a statement made by Madam Christie Lagarde the IMF director «Mediocre economic growth could become the new reality leaving millions stuck without jobs and increasing the risk to global financial stability» she said this after she has explicitly stated the global economic challenges and how certain structural reforms in Ghana including infrastructure investment as well as trade reforms were going to impact positively on Ghana's economy.

Given that dismal assessment — and given the great influence of economists on financial institutions and regulation — it's a wonder the global economic infrastructure is not in far worse shape.

I have confirmed that the Company has substantial strengths that can be further leveraged to improve our financial performance, including RIM's global network infrastructure, a strong enterprise offering and a large and growing base of more than 77 million subscribers.

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The risks of investing in infrastructure entities were highlighted during the global financial crisis.

Tassoultante (shown above), from the series Riad Mirage Club, investigates the impact of the 2008 global financial crisis on the region's urban landscape, traversing ghost towns, abandoned tourism projects and unused infrastructures to point towards wider human and economic narratives.

As a report from the Global CCS institute points out, financing this new infrastructure will be difficult to accomplish using debt because of uncertainty as to CO2 revenues — the report suggests that the World Bank and international lending institutions could finance CCS projects, and «the role of national governments can be as guarantors, equity partners or financial supporters.»

The fact that they aren't is yet another indication that the global financial sector is in need of reform far more drastic than has been contemplated so far * The policies «demanded» by S&P to keep the rating (drastic cuts in infrastructure spending) would have been economically disastrous

BLP has a clear strategy based on: building a leading global real estate capability, an internationally recognised litigation and corporate risk practice, a strong corporate and finance practice; building Real Estate, Infrastructure and ENR, Financial Services, and Private Wealth teams; continuing to invest in and build its Enterprise businesses such as LOD and Streamline.

Kiran's experience includes advising a FTSE 100 energy company on its global HR and payroll outsourcing, advising a FTSE 100 financial institution on a framework agreement for procuring IT services from a single supplier (including applications development and support and maintenance services), advising a central government department on the procurement of financial advisory services, advising a multinational infrastructure group on the procurement of its treasury management system using a cloud hosting solution, advising an international supplier of insulation, roofing and construction products on its procurement of an ERP system and advising an international packaging business on its terms and conditions for online selling to consumers.

Main areas of work Mergers and acquisitions, securities, domestic and international tax, employee benefits, financial institutions, global sourcing and technology, government relations, real estate finance and capital markets, real estate investment and development, chemistry and life sciences, patent litigation, trademark and copyright, electronics and software, medical and mechanical devices, bankruptcy and financial restructuring, complex commercial litigation, construction and infrastructure projects, environmental and sustainable development, government enforcement and investigations, insurance recovery, labor and employment, native american affairs.

We are particularly strong in the mid-market and handle all types of ECM transactions, from niche AIM listings in the UK to migrations from AIM to the Main Market and global equity offerings for large multi-nationals across our key industry sectors: financial institutions: energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and life sciences and healthcare.

His career began in sales with IBM, matriculated to Pepsi Cola where he headed its world - wide infrastructure, consulting and network applications and, from 1996 — 2015, bourgeoned through senior executive roles with Cisco that included Global Director of Financial Services, Vice President of New York Metro Area, Vice President of Americas Vertical Sales, Senior Vice President of U.S. Federal Organizations and Senior Vice President of U.S. Public Sectors.

Governments, major multinationals and global financial institutions rely on Linklaters» experience in significant corporate and finance transactions and energy, natural resources and infrastructure projects throughout the region.

The Global Projects group includes our energy projects practice (representing sponsors in the development of upstream oil and gas, LNG, pipeline, petrochemical, refinery and electric power projects, as well as in the acquisition and divestiture of interests in such projects), our project finance practice (representing both sponsors and lenders on energy and infrastructure projects), our energy regulatory practice (representing regulated entities; investors and customers / ratepayers of regulated entities, including electric generation, transmission and distribution; and LNG and natural gas production, gathering, transportation and distribution companies on U.S. federal and state regulatory and permitting issues), our real estate practice (representing developers and lenders on real estate projects, and acquisitions and divestitures of interests in such projects) and our international trade practice (representing clients in matters involving U.S. federal regulation of exports, imports, overseas investment and financial transactions).

To address fragmentation issues within the crypto market, CRYPTALGO has developed its Galaxy «backbone» infrastructure which connects global cryptocurrency exchanges and consolidates liquidity to offer financial institutions solutions such as «best price» and «best execution» uniquely designed for high - volume trading.

Nicolò Romani, Head of Innovation SIA, talks about the extraordinary variety of business applications a permissioned blockchain infrastructure could lend itself to, the impact it will have in the financial sector and whether it represents a revolution at global level.

The Valorem Foundation is an online financial infrastructure built on the blockchain technology to provide a platform for multi-party transactions across multiple industries in the global marketplace.

The pair is hoping to play a disruptive role in the global payments space with Lightyear by aggressively pursuing a global mission of creating an open and public financial infrastructure, enabling greater access for individuals, lowering costs for banks and increasing revenue for businesses.

In order to address the most pressing cyber security concerns of our time — cyber attacks, extreme vulnerabilities in cyber infrastructure, financial and other online crimes, and the lack of effective education and prevention methodologies — the Global Cyber Alliance seeks to foster international, coordinated collaboration to reduce and prevent malicious cyber activity.

On November 22nd, City and Financial Global is hosting a conference «Blockchain Technology: The Future for Financial Services Infrastructure Summit» in London to discuss the future of the blockchain in the financiaFinancial Global is hosting a conference «Blockchain Technology: The Future for Financial Services Infrastructure Summit» in London to discuss the future of the blockchain in the financiaFinancial Services Infrastructure Summit» in London to discuss the future of the blockchain in the financialfinancial system.

To find some answers, I turned to a recent event at the NASDAQ Innovation Center in downtown San Francisco that featured father and son Don and Alex Tapscott, followed by a panel discussion with John Wolpert, Global Blockchain Products Director at IBM; Haskell Garfinkel, Partner and FinTech co-lead at PricewaterhouseCoopers; and Ryan Smith, co-founder and CTO of Chain, a startup building blockchain infrastructure for financial institutions.

Estimates show that if Humaniq achieves its aim of successfully global financial inclusion process it would also free up approximately USD 4.2 trillion dollars of capital for investments and market growth of the world's poorest countries which could be used for infrastructure development, education, stimulating entrepreneurship, and enhancing the access to greater opportunities given the newfound financial empowerment.

These include traditional nature of infrastructure investments, limitations of traditional providers, lack of perfect global financial marketplace, cross-border latencies and so on.

From supporting a global financial services provider to meet new regulation requirements, to delivering a consistent and efficient approach to staffing multiple service centres and clients for a leading IT infrastructure service provider.

But Seltzer's long tenure ended last spring, when she was laid off from her job as the IT infrastructure director of financial services company IHS Global Insight.

Extensive experience with solutions - focused IT Business Services Management with expertise in technical solutions for major global clients large systems design, infrastructure deployment, financial management, operations management enterprise management and information technology system management.

CAREER SUMMARY * Experienced 20 years + (global) consultant and senior executive (C - Suite) in financial services, retail, fulfillment, telecommunications, BPO, and call center services with proven capabilities in developing and implementing corporate strategies, enterprise architecture and infrastructure, Cloud Computing, planning, budgeting, BPO, outsourcing, application and product development, governance, policies & proc...

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Globeop Financial Services, LLC (Harrison, NY) 2005 — 2007 Manager Enterprise Infrastructures Group • Designed and implemented disaster recovery system for Reuiter's Kondor 3.0 on Solaris 10 and Sybase 12.0 — 15.0 • Installed, configured, and managed Reuiter's Kondor 3.0; Solaris 10 (LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, ZOANS, CONTAINERS); AIX 4.3 - 5.3, Red Hat Enterprise — RHEL 3.0 — 4.0, Sybase 12.0 — 15.0, Oracle 10g, MYSQL 2.7.1, Sun One Directory Server (LDAP), SUN IDM, Solstice Disk Suite, Sun Cluster 3.0 - 3.2, Veritas Storage Foundation 4.1 — 5.0, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas NetBackup 5.0 — 7.0, Storage Array A1000 — A3500, EMC SAN, HITACHI SAN, 3 PAR, Brocade switch 40K, Cisco switch 6309, SSH, SSL, RSA encryption, Emulex LPFC, NaviSphere, EMC, and Power path • Automated processes utilizing shell scripts (Bourne, Korn, C Shell, Bash, AWK, SED and Perl) • Strong technical expertise in all major server technologies (SUN / HP / IBM / Linux / Microsoft) experiment in managing mission critical, low latency, high availability and clustered IT systems and familiar with FIX protocol • Performed massive installation of Solaris servers using both Jumpstart and Blade Logic and Red Hat using both PXE boot and BladeLogic servers to global distributed network of more than 2500 servers • Conducted disaster recovery tests • Managed and supervised four technicians ensuring continuity of service and efficient operations • Coordinated effort among Development, System, Networking, Application Support, Backup and recovery team to ensure maximum up time and effective issue resolution • Planned & developed projects, performed user acceptance tests, and applied patches to repair bugs • Developed shell scripts for Bourne shell, Korn shell, C Shell, AWK, PL / SQL and PERL • Managed DNS, NIS, NIS +, LDAP, jump start, Send Mail, SFTP, FTP, HTTP, SSL, SSH, Telnet and HP Open View • Coordinated effort between Development, QA, Production, DR, Systems, DBA, Production Support and Network Administration, Applications group for project completion ahead of time and under budget • Managed DNS, NIS, NIS +, DHCP, LDAP, SFTP, jumpstart, Apache, Tomcat, Websphrer and HP Open View.