Resources
Accenture
Accenture plc [ NYSE: ACN, ISIN: BMG1150G1116 ] is a global management consulting, technology consulting and technology outsourcing company. It was previously incorporated in Bermuda but since 1 September 2009 has been incorporated in Ireland. It is said to be the largest consulting firm in the world. Accenture is a Fortune Global 500 company with more than 186,000 people in 52 countries. For the fiscal year ended 31 August 2008, the company generated net revenues of US$23.39 billion. Accenture's clients include 96 of the Fortune Global 100 and more than three quarters of the Fortune Global 500. › Official Homepage
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission [ CFTC ]
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission [ CFTC ] is an independent agency of the United States government. The Commodity Exchange Act [ CEA ], 7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., prohibits fraudulent conduct in the trading of futures contracts. In 1974, Congress amended the Act to create a more comprehensive regulatory framework for the trading of futures contracts and created the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, replacing the Commodity Exchange Authority. The stated mission of the CFTC is to protect market users and the public from fraud, manipulation, and abusive practices related to the sale of commodity and financial futures and options, and to foster open, competitive, and financially sound futures and option markets. › Official Homepage
Citigroup
Citigroup Inc. [ branded Citi ], is a major American financial services company based in New York, NY. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate Travelers Group on April 7, 1998. Citigroup Inc. has the world's largest financial services network, spanning 140 countries with approximately 16,000 offices worldwide. The company employs approximately 300,000 staff around the world, and holds over 200 million customer accounts in more than 140 countries. It is a primary dealer in US Treasury securities. Citigroup suffered huge losses during the global financial crisis of 2008 and was rescued in November 2008 in a massive bailout by the U.S. government. Its largest shareholders include funds from the Middle East and Singapore. On February 27, 2009, Citigroup announced that the United States government would be taking a 36% equity stake in the company by converting $25 billion in emergency aid into common shares. Since then the 36% stake has been reduced to 27% after Citigroup sold $21 billion of common shares & equity in the largest single share sale in US history, surpassing Bank of America's $19 billion share sale one month prior. Citigroup is one of the Big Four banks in the United States, along with Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo. › Official Homepage
Corvil
Corvil, leader in electronic trading and market data latency management, was founded in 2000 and operates from New York, London and Dublin. The company’s global client base encompasses global banks, high frequency traders, exchanges, and service providers to financial markets. Recognized as a technology innovator in latency management, Corvil offers complete solutions for enhancing electronic trading and market data delivery including latency compliance management, latency monitoring & troubleshooting, and infrastructure sizing for low latency Service Level Agreements. › Official Homepage
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank AG [ literally "German Bank"; pronounced [ˈdɔɪtʃə ˈbaŋk]; FWB: DBK, NYSE: DB ] is an international universal bank with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. The bank employs more than 81,000 people in 76 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets. Deutsche Bank has offices in major financial centers, such as London, Moscow, Toronto, New York, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Furthermore, the bank is investing in expanding markets, such as the Middle East, Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe and Asia Pacific. The bank offers financial products and services for corporate and institutional clients along with private and business clients. Services include sales, trading, and origination of debt and equity; mergers and acquisitions [ M&A ]; risk management products, such as derivatives, corporate finance, wealth management, retail banking, fund management, and transaction banking. › Official Homepage
Deutsche Börse
Deutsche Börse AG [ FWB: DB1 ] [ German pronunciation: [ˈdɔɪtʃə ˈbɶʁzə] ] is a marketplace organizer for the trading of shares and other securities. It also is a transaction services provider. It gives companies and investors access to global capital markets. It is a joint stock company and was founded in 1993. The headquarters are in Frankfurt, Germany. More than 3,200 employees service customers in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. Deutsche Börse has locations in Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Spain, as well as representative offices in London, Paris, Chicago, New York, Hong Kong, and Dubai. › Official Homepage
Eurex
Eurex is the world's largest futures and options exchange, providing European benchmark derivatives featuring open and low-cost electronic access globally. Its electronic trading and clearing platform offers a broad range of products, and amongst others operates the most liquid fixed income markets. Eurex was established in 1998 with the merger of Deutsche Terminbörse [ DTB, the German derivatives exchange ] and SOFFEX [ Swiss Options and Financial Futures ]. Eurex is considered one of the "big three" derivative exchanges, along with NYSE Euronext Liffe and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. › Official Homepage
Financial Times
The Financial Times [ FT ] is a British international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in the Borough of Southwark, London and printed at 22 sites. Its primary rival is New York City-based The Wall Street Journal. Founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and his brother, the Financial Times competed with four other finance-oriented newspapers, in 1945 absorbing the last, the Financial News [ founded in 1884 ]. The FT specialises in business and financial news. Printed as a broadsheet on light salmon paper, the FT is the only paper in the UK providing full daily reports on the London Stock Exchange and world markets. › Official Homepage
Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a global investment banking and securities firm which engages in investment banking, securities services, investment management and other financial services primarily with institutional clients. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered at 85 Broad Street, in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City. The firm has offices in all major international financial centers, and provides mergers and acquisitions advice, underwriting services, asset management, and securities services to its clients, which include corporations, governments and high net worth individuals around the world. The firm also engages in proprietary trading and private equity deals. It is a primary dealer in the United States Treasury security market. › Official Homepage
Gulf News
Gulf News is a daily English language newspaper published from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates with a 2008 BPA audited circulation of over 115,000 readers. The newspaper won the Asia - Pacific award for best newspaper production in July 1990. › Official Homepage
Interactive Brokers
Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. [ IB ] is an online discount brokerage firm in the United States. The company traces its origin to 1977 when Thomas Peterffy bought a seat on the American Stock Exchange as an individual market maker, and formed T.P. & Co. the following year. Today, the company consists of many subsidiaries around the world, operating on most major stock, futures, bonds, forex, and options exchanges worldwide. The company commenced a public offering on 4 May 2007 under the ticker symbol NASDAQ: IBKR on the Nasdaq exchange. Barron's Magazine stated in 2009, that Interactive Brokers maintains a position as the least expensive trading venue for investors, and holds the ranking as the #1 Lowest Cost Broker for the fifth straight year. › Official Homepage
J.P. Morgan Chase
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is one of the oldest financial services firms in the world. It has operations in 60 countries. It is a leader in financial services with assets of $2 trillion, and the largest market capitalization and third largest deposit base U.S. banking institution behind Wells Fargo and Bank of America. The hedge fund unit of JPMorgan Chase is the second largest hedge fund in the United States with $32.893 billion in assets as of 2009. Formed in 2000, when Chase Manhattan Corporation merged with J.P. Morgan & Co., the firm serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and governmental clients. The JP Morgan brand is used by the Investment Bank as well as the Asset Management, Private Banking, Private Wealth Management, and Treasury & Securities Services divisions. Fiduciary activity within Private Banking and Private Wealth Management is done under the aegis of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.—the actual trustee. The Chase brand is used for credit card services in the United States and Canada, the bank's retail banking activities in the United States, and commercial banking. JP Morgan Chase is one of the Big Four banks of the United States with Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo. › Official Homepage
Naftohaz Ukrainy
National joint-stock company "Naftohaz Ukrainy" or "Naftogas of Ukraine" [ Ukrainian: НАК "Нафтогаз України", literally: Oilgas of Ukraine ] is the state company of Ukraine concerned with extraction, transportation, and refinement of natural gas and crude oil. The company is also active in Egypt and in the United Arab Emirates. Ukraine's system of trunk natural gas pipelines and underground natural gas depots is operated by Ukrtranshaz, a subsidiary of Naftohaz Ukrainy. Another subsidiary of Naftohaz Ukrainy, Gaz Ukrainy, is responsible for domestic gas distribution to local Ukrainian heat supply companies. In September 2009 the Fitch Ratings of the company dropped from 'CC' to 'C'. Late 2009 the company restructured of its foreign debt via the exchange of eurobonds and obligations on bilateral loans for single investment instruments. › Official Homepage
Nakheel
Nakheel [ Arabic: نخيل palms or palm trees ] is a real estate developer in Dubai and creator of several land reclamation projects, including the Palm Islands, the Dubai Waterfront, The World and The Universe Islands. Its residential projects include The Gardens, International City, Jumeirah Islands and Jumeirah Lake Towers. Its shopping projects include the The Dragon Mart [ at International City ] and Ibn Battuta Mall. Its main competitor in residential development in Dubai is Emaar Properties. Nakheel's flagship properties are the three man-made palm tree shaped islands on the coast of Dubai. Nakheel operates under the umbrella of Dubai World, which manages various businesses on behalf of the Dubai government. The executive chairman of Al Nakheel is Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem. Nakheel's portfolio of real estate include the Palm Islands [ Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali, Palm Deira ], The World Islands, The Universe Islands, Dubai Waterfront, The Gardens, Jumeirah Lake Towers, Discovery Gardens, Lost City, Jumeirah Islands, Jumeirah Heights a residential complex within Jumeirah Islands, Jumeirah Village, Jumeirah Park, Al Furjan, International City, Jewel of the Palm, The Golden Mile [ which is in the trunk of the Palm Jumeirah ], Nakheel International Hotel and Tower, another project on the trunk of the Palm Jumeirah, and Ibn Battuta Mall. › Official Homepage
Reuters
Reuters Group Limited, Reuters Group PLC [ 2008 ], now merged into Thomson Reuters [ 2008 ] [ pronounced ˈrɔɪtərz ] is a United Kingdom-based news service and former financial market data provider that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters. News reporting once accounted for less than 10% of the company's income. Its main focus was on supplying the financial markets with information and trading products. These included market data, such as share prices and currency rates, research and analytics, as well as trading systems that allowed dealers to buy and sell such assets as currencies and shares on a computer screen instead of by telephone or on a trading floor like that of the New York Stock Exchange. Among other services, the most notable was analysis of 40,000 companies, debt instruments, and 3 million economic series. Competitors included Bloomberg L.P. and Dow Jones Newswires. It is now part of Thomson Reuters. › Official Homepage
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil [ RSPO ]
In response to the urgent and pressing global call for sustainably produced palm oil, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil [ RSPO ] was formed in 2004 with the objective promoting the growth and use of sustainable oil palm products through credible global standards and engagement of stakeholders. The seat of the association is in Zurich, Switzerland, while the secretariat is currently based in Kuala Lumpur with a satellite office in Jakarta. RSPO is a not-for-profit association that unites stakeholders from seven sectors of the palm oil industry - oil palm producers, palm oil processors or traders, consumer goods manufacturers, retailers, banks and investors, environmental or nature conservation NGOs and social or developmental NGOs - to develop and implement global standards for sustainable palm oil. Such multi-stakeholder representation is mirrored in the governance structure of RSPO such that seats in the Executive Board and project level Working Groups are fairly allocated to each sector. In this way, RSPO lives out the philosophy of the "roundtable" by giving equal rights to each stakeholder group to bring group-specific agendas to the roundtable, facilitating traditionally adversarial stakeholders and business competitors to work together towards a common objective and making decisions by consensus. › Official Homepage
Royal Bank of Scotland
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc [ Scottish Gaelic: Banca Rìoghail na h-Alba ] is one of the retail banking subsidiaries of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, and together with NatWest and Ulster Bank, provides branch banking facilities throughout the British Isles. Royal Bank of Scotland has around 700 branches, mainly in Scotland though there are branches in many larger towns and cities throughout England and Wales. The Royal Bank of Scotland and its parent, the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, are completely separate from the fellow Edinburgh based bank, the Bank of Scotland, which pre-dates the Royal Bank of Scotland by 32 years. The Bank of Scotland was effective in raising funds for the Jacobite Rebellion and as a result, The Royal Bank of Scotland was established to provide a bank with strong Hanoverian and Whig ties. › Official Homepage
Sainsbury's
J. Sainsbury plc [ LSE: SBRY ] is the parent company of Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd, commonly known as Sainsbury's [ also Sainsbury and JS ], the third largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom with a share of the UK supermarket sector of 16.3%. The group also has interests in property and banking. Sainsbury's was founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury and his wife Mary Ann [ née Staples ], in London, England, and grew rapidly during the Victorian era. It grew to become the largest grocery retailer in 1922, pioneered self-service retailing in the UK, and its heyday was during the 1980s. In 1995, Tesco overtook Sainsbury's to become the market leader, and Asda became the second-largest in 2003, demoting Sainsbury's into third place. The founding Sainsbury family still retain approximately 15% of J Sainsbury plc shares [ as of May 2008 ], through various trusts. The family sold down their stake from 35% in 2005. The largest family shareholders are Lord Sainsbury of Turville with 5.83% and Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover, who controls just under 3% of the company, and benefits from 1.6% of the equity included in the above. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. › Official Homepage
SunGard
SunGard is a multinational company based in Wayne, Pennsylvania, which provides software and services to education, financial services, and public sector organizations. It was formed in 1983, as a spin-off of the computer services division of Sun Oil Company, during a period of low crude oil prices. The company has more than 25,000 customers in more than fifty countries. The name of the company originally was an initialism which stood for Sun Guaranteed Access to Recovered Data, a reference to the disaster recovery business it helped pioneer. SunGard ranked at 435 in Fortune 500 - 2009 list. › Official Homepage
The Economist
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in an office in the City of Westminster, London. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843. While The Economist calls itself a "newspaper", each issue appears on glossy paper, like a newsmagazine. In 2009, it reported an average circulation of just over 1.4 million copies per issue, about half of which are sold in North America. The Economist claims it "is not a chronicle of economics." Rather, it aims "to take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress." It takes an editorial stance based on free trade and globalisation, but also the expansion of government health and education spending and the government support of banks and other financial enterprises in danger of bankruptcy. It targets highly educated readers and claims an audience containing many influential executives and policy-makers. › Official Homepage
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an English-language international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, in New York City, with Asian and European editions. The Journal has the largest circulation of any newspaper in the United States. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 2.1 million copies [ including 400,000 online paid subscriptions ] as of October 2009 compared to USA Today's 1.9 million. Its main rival in the business newspaper sector is the London-based Financial Times, which also publishes several international editions. The Journal primarily covers U.S. and international business, and financial news and issues. Its name derives from Wall Street in New York City, the heart of the financial district, and has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. The newspaper version has won the Pulitzer Prize thirty-three times, including 2007 prizes for its reporting on backdated stock options and the adverse effects of China's booming economy. › Official Homepage
Ukrainian Railways
Ukrzaliznytsia [ Ukrainian: Укрзалізниця ] is the national state-owned railway company of Ukraine. It controls all railways in the country except: intra-company industrial railways, local military railways and municipal Metro systems. The company was established September 24, 1991, following the resolution of the Verhovna Rada of Ukraine on separation from the Soviet Union. According to the resolution, all assets located within the borders of Ukraine became property of the country. As a result, the majority of the current railway structure of Ukraine was inherited from the Soviet Union. The railways are split into 6 geographical regions: Donets'k, L'viv, Odessa, Northern, North-Western and Near-Dnipro, with a combined total length of track of over 23,000 km. The company is the largest Ukrainian state-owned company, employing over 375,000 employees. › Official Homepage