Sentences with phrase «year institutions by»

The HMP objective is to significantly increase college completion rates for students attending both two and four - year institutions by 20 %.

Not exact matches

The 81 - year - old government - run financial institution, known as the Ex-Im Bank, provides much - needed to support to exporters through guaranteed loans and credit insurance, and by its own reckoning, it has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury over the last 20 years.

An institution of Desjardins» size would not function without codified processes, and while the co-operative has plenty — 143 distinct ones when it counted a few years ago — it is now looking to give employees more leeway to act on the front lines by, say, allowing a caisse teller to offer an additional incentive at the counter.

Despite more than paying for itself — by its own reckoning, Ex-Im Bank has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury in the last two decades through interest on guaranteed loans and credit insurance — the 80 - year - old government - run financial institution is a sunset agency.

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The study, by Yusuke Tsugawa and colleagues at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and other institutions, examined the record of a large random sample of Medicare patients, 65 years or older, who were hospitalized from January 2011 to December 2014.

Wang Yiming, deputy head of the Development Research Centre of China's State Council, said at the forum that although many belt and road projects were funded by major financial institutions — including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, New Development Bank, China Development Bank (CDB), the Export - Import Bank of China and the Silk Road Fund — there was still a huge funding gap of up to US$ 500 billion a year.

For the past 40 years, the institution has compiled an annual list of words — culled from nominations made through the university's website and ultimately finalized by a committee — which should be «banished from the Queen's English for mis - use, over-use and general uselessness.»

From Uber to Equifax, this was the year the world's most powerful institutions got schooled by hackers.

That's unclaimed property — or accounts held by companies or financial institutions that haven't had contact with the owner for one year or more.

The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer, the annual global study often considered the gold standard in trust data measurement recently stated that, «In a year marked by turbulence at home and abroad, trust in institutions in the United States crashed, posting the steepest, most dramatic general population decline the Trust Barometer has ever measured.»

Comments received by the Department and media reports also indicate that many financial institutions already had completed or largely completed work to establish policies and procedures necessary to make the business structure and practice shifts required by the Impartial Conduct Standards earlier this year (e.g., drafting and implementing training for staff, drafting client correspondence and explanations of revised product and service offerings, negotiating changes to agreements with product manufacturers as part of their approach to compliance with the PTEs, changing employee and agent compensation structures, and designing conflict - free product offerings), and the Department believes that financial institutions may use this compliance infrastructure to ensure that they meet the Impartial Conduct Standards after taking the additional Start Printed Page 16910sixty days for an orderly transition between June 9, 2017, and January 1, 2018.

Total investment by Israeli financial institutions in ETFs worldwide rose by over NIS 4 billion last year.

Earlier this year, the CFPB issued a new rule to make it easier to mount a class action against banks and financial institutions by banning forced arbitration.

But in recent years, the city has experienced encroachment on its independence, and investors have raised concerns that its strong regulatory and legal institutions are slowly being eroded by Beijing.

«If you continue just to add institution - by - institution guidelines, you will not create enough of an umbrella to protect anybody from the social consequences of a cyber event and, therefore, almost definitionally there will be one,» said Poloz, who expects the issue to feature prominently on the G7 agenda when Canada plays host next year.

Altogether, under the package proposed by the institutions to the Greek authorities, these needs are projected to reach about $ 50bn from October 2015 to the end of 2018, requiring new European money of at least $ 36bn over the three - year period.»

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) may issue a bond on a blockchain platform by early next year, according to Sophie Gilder, the institution's head of blockchain.

In doing so, we have turned a page for this storied institution, which has been known by the same name since it was first founded 129 years ago «by a small group of merchants, lumbermen, bankers, and manufacturers.»

In the coming months and years, as a recovery takes hold, financial institutions defined by long - term business strategies, strong balance sheets and especially by disciplined risk management principles will be rewarded.

The report: Years ago, when many advisors may have joined the industry, insurers sought to grow by casting a wider net building and acquiring capabilities to amass large product or geographic footprints in the mold of a full - service financial institution.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

After years of development and flickering just outside of mainstream consciousness and acceptance, record high prices for the most popular blockchain - based cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and newcomer Ethereum and an embrace of the technology's core principles by some of the world's largest institutions may mean that blockchain technology is ready for its close up.

It is here to stay and it has proven itself during the last couple years, being adopted by traditional and modern banking institutions, corporate titans and multiple governmental organizations.

Thanks in part to falling interest rates and less stringent loan requirements by the country's major lending institutions, small business loans jumped from $ 584.1 billion in September 2012 to $ 586 billion by the end of the year.

Through Zelle — a P2P payment network under development for six years — 30 financial institutions will offer the service on their mobile banking app, making it easier for more than 86 million consumers to split restaurant bills and pay the dog - walker by phone.

In recent years, about two - thirds of nonfinancial credit market debt has been held by nonbanks, which includes market - based funding by securitization vehicles and mutual funds as well as by institutions such as insurance companies and finance companies.

«Dix explained that the non-repayable grant program - eliminated by the Liberals in the 2004 - 05 fiscal year — should be financed through reinstating a minimum tax on financial institutions.»

Last year, the member - owned network of banks and other financial institutions revealed a successful proof - of - concept aimed at reimagining the nostro - vostro accounts used by companies to store cash around the world, and in January, it signed an agreement with seven central securities depositories to evolve the way the centralized organizations might leverage blockchain.

In recent years, highly regulated institutions such as Bank of America — burned by billions of dollars in fines — have shied away from the mortgage business.

On Tuesday, CME Group announced that the platform, which includes technology from companies AlphaPoint and BitGo, is being tested by a select few «major financial institutions» and will be available later this year.

For 81 years, the stodgy, if steadfast, San Diego institution was owned by the Copley family.

It would also prohibit gun sales to Floridians who were committed to mental institutions or deemed mentally incompetent by a judge, and would allow the police — with judicial approval — to bar a person deemed dangerous from owning guns for up to a year.

The Royal Mint, a 1,000 - year - old institution owned by HM Treasury, has partnered with CME Group to build and launch a digitised gold offering called Royal Mint Gold (RMG).

The RBA had been accepting bank bills in its operations for a number of years, so it was a sensible progression to accept highly rated asset - backed paper sponsored by the same institutions.

Over the last 5 years, Sid has won multiple global investment research awards, judged by over 70 global fund managers and allocators by institutions like SumZero, Ira Sohn, Value Investing Congress and Factset.

At this point, the vast majority of people my age — being honest, the dividing line seems to be around 45 years old — roll their eyes and, in a perfectly rational manner, argue that a currency is usually boring and backed up by meaningful institutions such as central banks.

The surge in Ripple's price over the two years is largely attributable to the adoption of the Ripple blockchain by Japanese banks and increased interest by other global finance institutions as it provides suitable settlements platform that is far more reliable than the current solutions such as SWIFT.

For the financial markets, those risks are compounded by the unbalanced «risk - on» exposure that investment managers and institutions adopted early this year, encouraged by a short - lived burst of economic activity, and faith in a central - bank backstop.

The IMF's Articles of Agreement forbid it to make loans to countries that clearly can not pay, prompting its economists to complain at last year's October 2013 annual meeting in Washington that their institution was violating its rules by making bad loans «to states unable to repay their debts.»

In recent years mid-sized Chinese banks have devoted an increasing proportion of their balance sheets to various investment products, often issued by other financial institutions.

We've made a lot of scientific advancements in the last 100 years alone, but vicious information and information seem to be kept tip by institutions and governments around the world, creation it formidable for continued common advancements.

Unlike several years ago, the majority of Greece's $ 315 billion debt is now owned by public entities; so we'd anticipate that any fallout would be contained primarily in public institutions such as the IMF and the European Central Bank (ECB).

Regarding Schumer's point on enrollments, the number of computer science graduates bottomed out in the 2006 - 07 academic year, with only 8,021 students receiving bachelor's degrees in computer science at the 170 Ph.D. - granting institutions tracked by the Computer Research Association.

Over the course of a few years, there would be an erosion of the Church's public presence, as Catholic institutions find themselves burdened by fines and unable to offer health coverage.

When you add that up, it begins to look a little institutional (Webster defines as: «a custom, practice, or law that is accepted and used by many people» So my physical family is an institution and we have customs and practices and traditions over many years.

Despite concerns about regulations since the 2008 financial crisis, by any measure financial institutions are far, far freer today than they were thirty years ago.

I have been fascinated by the number of secular institutions in these last years (often mental hospitals) who have asked me to do what would have been called in a previous period «religious emphasis week.»

Andrew White, who would become the founding president of Cornell University, one of the first institutions explicitly nonsectarian from its foundation, had been soured by his one year at a small Episcopal college.

Learning to Live in the Father's Affection by Wayne Jacobsen — During my years of self - imposed exile from the Church, particularly the institutions of church, I leaned heavily on Lifestream Ministries, in particular The God Journey podcasts.