Larkin Martin Named Chairman, Scott Davis Deputy Chairman at Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

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Larkin Martin, managing partner of Martin Farm and vice president of The Albemarle Corp., has been appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s board of directors. Scott Davis, chief financial officer of United Parcel Service, has been appointed deputy chairman. Their one-year terms begin Jan. 1, 2007.

Pune commercial real estate market spreads out | INRnews

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Pune, November 16, 2006 : Pune has changed significantly and evolved as a dynamic Tier II business destination in the last 2-3 years. With growing decentralization, the original CBD of Camp, Bund Garden Road, Dhole Patil Road, Station Road and RTO have given way to multiple emerging micro-markets like Kalyani Nagar, Senapati Bapat Road, Mundhwa, Aundh, Baner and Yerwada.

Investing By The Numbers, Part 1

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For any investment, there really is 4 things you need to know and guess what, NOBODY gives them to you in a normal sales presentation. Let us break down each one and how it is obtained.

India’s retail revolution begins | INRnews

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Hyderabad, November 15, 2006 - If India’s much anticipated retail revolution has a start date, it could well be the first week of November 2006. On November 3, in a classic RIL move marked by scale and ambition, Reliance Retail launched 11 Reliance Fresh retail outlets simultaneously in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, firing the first salvo in what will be a keenly contested battle to win a huge prize - nothing less than the wallets of Indian consumers!

Indeterminacy in a Forward-Looking Regime-Switching Model

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Working Paper 2006-19 by Roger E.A. Farmer, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha. Using a monetary policy model that switches between regimes with known transition probabilities, the authors find that ruling out nonfundamental equilibria in Markov-switching rational expectations models may be difficult.

The Conquest of South American Inflation

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Working Paper 2006-20 by Thomas Sargent, Noah Williams, and Tao Zha. An examination of repeated hyperinflations and stabilizations in Latin American countries allows the authors to infer the deficit adjustments that seem to have permanently stabilized inflation processes.

Business Cycles: A Role for Imperfect Competition in the Banking System

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Working Paper 2006-21 by Federico S. Mandelman. The author finds that bank markups are countercyclical as a result of monopoly power and limit pricing strategies. This mechanism works as an internal amplification mechanism in business cycles models.

IT Spending Trends: A Global Financial Services Review

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Celent aggregates financial services IT spending trends across regions, across the industry, and around the world.

Document Management in Banking: Overview and Solution Spectrum

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Celent analyzes document management issues for banks and classifies 30 vendors.

So now that you have closed……WHAT IS NEXT?

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After you leave the closing table (if you were even there at all), one important thing that you should make sure that you have is a copy. A copy of what, you may ask?

Research Notes - November 2006

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Featuring research published in October 2006.

Research Notes - November 2006

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Featuring research published in October 2006.

Dollar Appreciates in October

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The Atlanta Fed tracks the performance of the U.S. dollar relative to fifteen major currencies. Find the most recent index data and archives.

Dollar Appreciates in October

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The Atlanta Fed tracks the performance of the U.S. dollar relative to fifteen major currencies. Find the most recent index data and archives.

The Future of Consumer Card Payments

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Celent examines trends and outcomes in the credit, debit, and prepaid industries.

Cognizant to invest Over $200 Million in India real estate expansion | INRnews

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Teaneck, NJ – November 2, 2006 – Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation (NASDAQ: CTSH), a leading provider of IT services, today announced plans to further expand its infrastructure in India through an expansion of its existing real estate development program. As part of this program, Cognizant plans to develop state-of-the-art techno-complexes and expand its infrastructure in five cities – Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune.

Corporate Banking in China: History, Opportunities and Challenges

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Uptake of SaaS by insurers has been slow but is accelerating.

IBM Launches SOA Development Center in Pune | INRnews

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Pune, November 01, 2006 : IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the opening of two new development centers located in Beijing, China; and Pune, India. These SOA Solutions Centers will develop, manage and deliver industry-specific business services that solve some of the most pressing business issues facing IBM clients. As a result, these centers will serve as the foundation of a new, globally integrated model for delivering SOA-based services.