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Recently, Fitch Ratings—a credit rating agency—said that Indian banks’ gross non-performing loans (NPL) reached 4.2% for the financial year ending March 2013 from 3.75% in 2011-12. The total stressed assets (including restructured assets) in the system is expected to exceed 10% of total loans by the end of the current fiscal. That is not all. …
Moscow, Russia – October 15, 2012 – Mechel OAO (NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, reports signing long-term agreements with Sberbank of Russia OAO on opening several credit lines to Southern Kuzbass Coal Company OAO for a total of 24 billion rubles. Sberbank of Russia OAO opened four credit lines …
October 15, 2012 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of Frontier and Developing Asia and Pacific countries1 met with International Monetary Fund (IMF) representatives in Tokyo on October 14, 2012, in the context of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings. At the end, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde issued the following statement: “This special event was the …
(Washington, D.C., October 15, 2012 – The Specialty Steel Industry of North America (“SSINA”) has released statistical data on imports, U.S. consumption, and import penetration for YTD July 2012. The data represents U.S. consumption, imports, and import penetration for YTD July 2012 compared to the same 2011 seven month period. The following data is presented …
New global study by Eversheds reveals that deal due diligence does not focus enough on post deal integration Little or no focus beyond the deal transaction to post-integration is compromising the benefits and value of cross-border M&A Internal processes are as much to blame as external factors Global businesses are not realising the full potential …
ANNOUNCES TRANSLATION OF ITS CERTIFICATION SYSTEM DOCUMENTS IN CHINESE, FRENCH, GUJARATI, ITALIAN, PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH LONDON – The Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) today announced that its membership has exceeded 400 companies and trade associations, large and small, throughout the diamond, gold and platinum metals jewellery supply chain, from around the world. “RJC’s healthy membership numbers …
Mumbai, October 15, 2012: Firstsource Solutions (NSE:FSL, BSE:532809), a global provider of customized business process outsourced (BPO) services to the Banking & Financial Services, Telecom & Media and Healthcare sectors, has been awarded the Outsourcer of the Year in the European Call Centre and Customer Service Awards 2012. These are the BPO Industry “Oscars” and …
MUMBAI, INDIA: October 15, 2012 – Focusing on the theme of change, Eli Izhakoff, President of the World Diamond Council, has addressed the opening of the World Diamond Congress today in Mumbai, India. In his speech, he supported the principle of expanding the definition of “conflict diamonds,” but emphasized that, whatever definition is applied, it …
In line with its ongoing commitment to simplifying and improving support experience for customers, Norton by Symantec today announced the availability of Hindi language phone support in India. Starting October 15, 2012, Norton customers in India can call 1800 102 6012 to access customer support in Hindi from 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., Monday to …
Siemens Metals Technologies has acquired the know-how for acid regeneration from Acreg Process Technology GmbH, Vienna, Austria, thus extending its portfolio for pickling plants in the steel industry. Aashish Gupta, who is responsible for the worldwide continuous casting und rolling mill business at Siemens Metals Technologies, explained, “By acquiring proven technologies of plants for regenerating …