Sentences with phrase «of infrastructure sector»

Attorneys from various practice groups at the firm offer their take on issues ranging from permitting reform to financing to litigation, and share their insights from working with clients in a variety of infrastructure sectors, from water infrastructure to energy development to infrastructure development on tribal lands.

Not exact matches

CNBC's Michelle Caruso - Cabrera takes a look at the state of our nation's crumbling infrastructure, and whether there's a role for private sector investment.

In 2012, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security responded to approximately 200 «cyber incidents» across critical infrastructure sectors, nearly half of which attacked the electrical grid.

More news below — including the President's new infrastructure plan, which would put much more of that responsibility into private sector hands.

What will come of Trump's promise to turn a $ 200 billion federal government investment into $ 1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending, with the rest coming from the private sector?

For consumers looking to purchase products or services across a number of sectors, customer service counts, and managing this delicate and instrumental infrastructure can make a business or bring it to its knees.

For example, after a cyberattack hobbled Estonia's communications network in 2007, the government and private sector joined forces to create a state - of - the - art security system known as keyless signature infrastructure.

So much of our computer networks and critical infrastructure are in the private sector, which means that government can not do this alone,» Obama said during his speech at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection Summit.

«As a nation, we have been under - investing in infrastructure for the last two decades,» Mills said, adding that investment in the public sector has dropped to 3.6 percent of U.S. output, compared to 5 percent after World War II.

«I wanted to set up a long - term business, on an extensive scale and found a sea of opportunities in the infrastructure sector,» told Kailas.

An indomitable spirit of bootstrapping the business led Ravi Kailas, the Chairman of Mytrah Energy, into an entrepreneurial journey that would cater to the needs in the infrastructure sector.

The new announcement, which comes in the context of tensions over Syria, relates to attacks on government and private - sector organizations, as well as critical infrastructure providers.

«Infrastructure development will help improve connectivity within the city and bodes well for the real estate projects coming in the suburbs and MMR region which will further spur growth of the sector», according to Chintan Sheth from Sheth Corp..

Among the sectors they identify that stand to benefit most: transportation and infrastructure — the transport of people, the movement of water, the means of keeping back the sea.

The push by the tech sector piggybacks on years of state - driven Chinese investments in infrastructure in Latin America, with a pool of 2,000 companies pouring more than $ 200 billion in the region as of January.

Some ETFs seek to replicate the performance of specific sectors, such as infrastructure or healthcare, while others track particular commodities such as gold, oil or natural gas.

As usual there is plenty of backlash, with environmental deregulation and attempts to save jobs in energy sectors that may be superseded, to protect old habits and infrastructures from change.

The civil engineers and project managers who do the infrastructure building are less skeptical about the role of the public sector than privatization advocates.

Markets refused to take comfort from a more upbeat assessment of China's services sector, or from an unconfirmed Bloomberg report that Beijing will speed up $ 1 trillion of infrastructure projects in order to sustain growth.

A BRI study published last February by two German business associations — Germany Trade & Invest and Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce — highlights «cooperation opportunities between German and Chinese businesses in sectors of infrastructure, energy and consulting.»

For example, private sector infrastructure builders may not see the benefit of building roads and bridges that we need, instead preferring a project that may not be necessary but offers a greater profit.

She supported the department's mission of strengthening the security and resilience of the nation's critical infrastructure, working with all areas of the department, government agencies, law enforcement, and the private sector.

It's a bunch of tax incentives meant to get the private sector to invest in infrastructure, rather than a more traditional program of direct government spending.

• WestView Capital Partners acquired a minority stake in Abacus Group, a New York - based provider of managed IT solutions and infrastructure for the financial services sector.

Innovative minds and persistent efforts have led to unprecedented collaboration between the public and private sectors, resulting in the successful completion of important infrastructure projects that otherwise would have been unaffordable.

Paul Black lists out three big trends to watch for in health IT this year, namely: a continuing shift to value - based care models (rather than the fee - for - service, volume - oriented paradigm which still dominates the sector); digital health infrastructure interoperability that makes it possible for different systems to talk to each other and coordinate care; and an increased focus on precision medicine and «genomically aware care» that can help take a lot of the guesswork out of medicine.

Private sector sponsorship of public infrastructure has frequently caused controversy, and the sale of naming rights to Perth's new stadium is no exception.

For Canadians the SkyDome became a monument to the inability of the public sector to deliver large scale infrastructure projects on time and on budget.

Although Toronto's SkyDome was a marvel of structural engineering, it is an all too familiar reminder of flawed financial and project planning for major infrastructure in the public sector.

«We need a continuing and increasing investment in public transportation,» says Angela Iannuzziello, chair of the Board's infrastructure committee and a private sector transportation planning consultant.

The financial sector constitutes the infrastructure of commerce; financial intermediation is also the mechanism that facilitates risk - sharing and risk mitigation, as well as regional and intertemporal exchange of financial assets and obligations.

The proposals of Trump advisors Peter Navarro and Wilbur Ross to rely on tax credits to augment infrastructure investment are a textbook case of the dangers of knee - jerk private sector reliance.

Retail spending remains subdued following the large increase last year, and commercial construction is weak outside of the boost from public - sector infrastructure spending.

Chinese foreign direct investment in Europe has soared from under $ 1 billion in 2008 to $ 35 billion in 2016.2 Examples of Chinese economic activities include: acquisitions of European companies in a variety of strategic fields, most notably in the technology sector; sustained investment into existing critical infrastructure; and the provision of funding for new infrastructure projects.

An aging global population in the developed world, coupled with the emergence of a more robust healthcare services infrastructure in the developing world, will keep demand growth in the healthcare sector on a steady upward trend for decades.

After the years of breakneck infrastructure investment, urbanization and industrialization that created the supercycle in commodity demand, Beijing is now shifting focus of policy to the services - orientated sectors of the economy.

While at Lazard, he worked on a variety of transactions in the power, energy, and infrastructure sectors, including strategic advisory and merger and acquisition assignments totaling over $ 35 billion in aggregate transaction value.

Information infrastructure for the industrial world is now more important than ever, so we offer our congratulations to the OSIsoft team and look forward to the company's next phase of growth as sensor data continues to proliferate and the sector rockets toward a future of 50 billion connected endpoints.

China has overinvested in infrastructure and manufacturing capacity to such an extent that in the aggregate the cost of additional public sector investment exceeds the present value of future increases in productivity generated by the investment.

The Bank of Canada will continue to focus on what it does best: supporting the economic and financial well - being of Canada by achieving low, stable and predictable inflation; by keeping core financial market infrastructure safe; and by giving sound advice on financial sector policies so that vulnerabilities do not get in the way of sustainable, productive growth for all Canadians.

There are significant parallels between water and electricity infrastructure in the 20th century and high bandwidth internet connectivity in the 21st century, with both exhibiting the type of network externality problems that lead to under - investment by the private sector.

After two - and - a-half years of giving income investors false hopes of a recovery, the energy infrastructure sector is now ready to stage a sustained positive price trend.

These include the economy's lack of diversification away from the non-oil sector and high operating costs as a result of bureaucracy and a lack of competition, as well as low productivity due to relatively weak infrastructure and poor human capital development.

Our analysis of digital health investment in the third quarter of 2015 revealed that just under $ 3 billion was invested in the sector and more than half of that went to infrastructure providers.

Banks and other financial services sector organizations need to pay more attention to their security infrastructure and defenses and apply application security safeguards to monitor all of their data - as well as individual files, says Terry Ray, CTO of Imperva.

EverStream focuses on infrastructure projects with energy off ‐ take contracts, proven and reliable technology and strong visibility into revenues and cash flows in sectors where the team has a demonstrable edge by virtue of its experience and its sponsor base.

It suggests that it would be confidence enhancing for a broad range of sectors of the economy for there to be a pipeline of infrastructure projects; projects that would then unleash potential benefits for the wider population.

«The Developers» Den competition provides an important opportunity for the best students to develop and showcase their analytical, creative and presentation skills as emerging talent in front of leaders within the real property sector,» says Jim Clayton, who was recently appointed to the Timothy R. Price Chair at Schulich's Brookfield Centre in Real Estate and Infrastructure.

«Part of this spending is designed to support still - fragile private sector confidence, but the overarching aim is to improve and expand civil infrastructure, investment in which lagged for much of the 1980s and 1990s,» he says.

AIWM India primarily focuses on broader and strategic role of developing a more robust and forward - looking training infrastructure for private banking and wealth management sector and to promote more active industry involvement and collaboration in training and continuing education matters.