ING Real Estate announced today the launch of the ING European Infrastructure Fund. Open to institutions with a minimum of EUR10m to invest, the EUR 1 billion fund is targeting a balanced portfolio of European assets, with an IRR of at least 10%.

Posted : Thu, May 15, 2008

   Child-friendly spaces set up in camps sheltering people affected by Cyclone Nargis.

Posted : Tue, May 13, 2008

   JPMorgan Asset Management today noted that its JPMorgan Tax Aware Real Return Fund (TXRAX) reached $1 billion in assets under management.

Posted : Tue, May 06, 2008

   otary International's coordinator for water and sanitation projects, F. Ronald Denham, estimates Rotary clubs are involved in at least 6,000 projects in scores of countries.

Posted : Sat, Mar 22, 2008

   UNICEF supplied two million anti-yellow fever vaccinations in response to an emergency declared by the Government of Paraguay following an outbreak of yellow fever cases. Approximately 750,000 people have been immunized so far.

Posted : Thu, Feb 28, 2008

   Funds to Accelerate Development of On-Demand Business Intelligence Service and Increase Headcount.

Posted : Wed, Jan 09, 2008

   Citi Markets & Banking has announced the addition of Offshore Money Market Mutual funds from nine fund managers to its award winning Citibank Online Investments portal in Europe.

Posted : Thu, Sep 20, 2007

   IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the State Bank of Pakistan, formally launched a housing finance training program in Pakistan last week. The meeting was attended by senior executives from over 30 financial institutions in the country.

Posted : Wed, Sep 19, 2007

   Mozilla today announced a new initiative to stimulate innovation in Internet mail and communications.

Posted : Tue, Sep 18, 2007

   GENIVAR Income Fund today announced that it has agreed to issue 1,902,439 trust units from treasury of the Fund on a bought deal basis to a syndicate of underwriters.

Posted : Fri, Aug 24, 2007

   The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) today made the following statement: Many funds employing quantitative strategies are currently under pressure as recent conditions have resulted in significant market dislocation. Across most sectors, there has been an increase in overlapping trades, a surge in volatility and an increase in correlations.

Posted : Mon, Aug 13, 2007

   Citi today announced that it will begin piloting a new mobile peer to peer payment service with leading mobile payments provider Obopay.

Posted : Thu, Jul 26, 2007

   adap.tv, a unique online video advertising platform that allows publishers and advertisers to match relevant advertising with online video content, today announced that it has closed a Series A funding round of $10 million.

Posted : Thu, Jul 12, 2007

   CircleUp, Inc. today announced that it has raised a $3 million Series A financing led by Sid R. Bass Associates, a $300 million venture capital fund focused on early and late stage technology investing.

Posted : Tue, Jun 26, 2007

   A low-energy run originally scheduled for this year has been dropped as the result of a number of minor delays accumulated over the final months of LHC installation and commissioning, coupled with the failure in March of a pressure test in one of the machine's components.

Posted : Mon, Jun 25, 2007

   IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, will provide a seven-year loan to Romania's Credit Europe Bank to support the bank's expansion into small and medium enterprises and strengthen its balance sheet by providing local currency funding with a longer tenor than currently available in the local market.

Posted : Wed, Jun 20, 2007

   Intelenet Global Services Pvt Ltd (Intelenet) has agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of The Blackstone Group and the management team, subject to regulatory approval.

Posted : Mon, Jun 18, 2007

   Luminescent Technologies, Inc., a provider of lithography-enhancement products to the global semiconductor industry, today announced that it has raised $9 Million in a new financing round.

Posted : Thu, Jun 14, 2007

   The funds from this round of financing will be used to support further development of the Open Source project, promote community awareness and developer contributions and accelerate end-user adoption.

Posted : Tue, May 22, 2007

   Mig33, the global mobile Internet community, today announced that parent company, Project Goth, has closed a Series A funding round of $10 million co-led by Accel Partners and Redpoint Ventures, with substantial contribution from Technology Venture

Posted : Mon, May 07, 2007