Monthly Archive: April 2018

New service streamlines the process by leveraging smartphone technology Life Insurance Blog

Insurer appoints an executive to lead its provincial team Life Insurance Blog

BOSTON (AP) — General Electric Co. (GE) on Friday reported a first-quarter loss of $1.15 billion, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier. The Boston-based company said it had a loss of 14 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted to account for discontinued operations and non-recurring costs, came to 16 cents per […]

LONDON — The British pound is falling from post-Brexit highs after the Bank of England’s governor tempered market expectations of another interest rate hike next month. In comments to the BBC on Thursday, Mark Carney noted some recent soft economic data, and reiterated that any interest rate rises would be gradual. He said: “I don’t […]

Tom Bradley: It’s important that you diversify your information sources as you would diversify your portfolio

Skoll World Forum entrepreneur says he erred by assuming his technology would sell itself. ‘That’s the Silicon Valley mindset’ — but he was in Africa

The competitive advantage goes to the leaders and teams that understand the potential unleashed when power is shared

A handful of stories we’re tracking at Financial Post

RIGA, Latvia — Latvian bank ABLV has rejected the U.S. government’s findings that it “institutionalizes money laundering” and helps evade sanctions as “hyperbolic,” saying they refer to old practices it has now changed. ABLV was accused by the U.S. Treasury in February of encouraging money laundering, facilitating financial transactions for sanctioned entities like the North […]

TORONTO — Cannabis activists say although this year’s 4-20 celebrations across the country will likely be the last before recreational pot use becomes legal, there’s still a lot to fight for. The federal government has committed to making marijuana legal by the summer, but the task of regulating the sale and consumption of the drug […]