It was founded by a Canadian EWB overseas volunteer and a Zambian coworker and provides alternative asset-based financing to rural Zambian entrepreneurs.
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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners hired the advisory arm of PIMCO, a big fund manager, in 2009 to develop alternative risk-based capital requirements for the industry's holdings of residential mortgage securities.
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As an alternative to petroleum-based components, cellulose is the plastic's major ingredient.
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Fortunately, marketers are beginning to prioritize their mobile advertising efforts toward ad models that are an alternative to click-based models, such as signup advertising.
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"Schooner's MySQL and NoSQL solutions combined with the LSI WarpDrive card provide industry-leading performance for database and key-value stores, delivering over 9x performance throughput increase relative to hard drive configurations and over 3x performance throughput increase relative to alternative PCIe flash-based solutions, " said Dr. John Busch, founder and CTO, Schooner Information Technologies.
The seller is Howard Marks, the billionaire money manager behind Oaktree Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based publicly-traded alternative asset management firm.
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Shariah finance is an extension of Islamic law, pushing a faith-based alternative to Western banking.
When the land-based routes became less accessible after the collapse of the Mongol empire, European traders sought a sea-based alternative.
The New Options Project, in particular, seeks to build bridges to employers at alternative schools, community-based organizations and workforce development centers.
The alternative is a rules-based system in which the Fed begins to use quantitative tightening and easing to steady the value of the dollar as represented by the price of gold.
Although the bond business isn't as lucrative, it is a viable alternative for Hong Kong-based Chinese investment banks, which lag behind their more established global peers in sectors such as asset management.
The Kansas City-based alternative trading site, which has managed to take over nearly 10% of the daily trading in Nasdaq-listed stocks since January, is now going to try to boost its share of trading in Big Board stocks.
Yours truly has had some pretty positive experiences with Babbel's existing product line, with the latest being a subscription-based alternative for iPad that makes it a lot more affordable to learn the basics of 11 different tongues.
Against the backdrop of a strong growth trajectory and relative economic resilience of the online games market, MOL AccessPortal (MOL) announces a strategic investment in a San Francisco-based alternative payment startup, Rixty to further expand its global reach to North and South America.
Randomized clinical trials should be designed to confirm whether cherry products could provide a dietary or non-medication based alternative to prevent gout attacks.
It called for the rapid development of new ways to shut down sources of interference, new laws to punish offenders more harshly and for alternative, non-GPS-based backup systems to be deployed.
The recent influx of alternative fee arrangements such as project-based pricing may only offer a temporary solution.
The alternative was to develop a protein-based drug, like Erbitux, but the drug would have to be injected.
The alternative was to develop a protein-based drug, like Erbitux, but then patients would have to be injected.
Accessible through a mobile app for iOS and Android devices, or over the web at MINDSTORMS.COM, the interactive building instructions-based on Autodesk Inventor Publisher technology-provide an alternative to traditional instructions, bringing the building experience to life.
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Alternative indexes have higher risk than market-based indexes and therefore provide a different return path relative to the risk.
The program is meant to be an alternative or in-addition to work-based visas which tie you to a particular employer.
MRAM, a next-generation memory based on magnetic materials, has emerged as an alternative to SRAM because it is non-volatile, cutting leak current during standby status.
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Use alcohol-based hand sanitizers as an alternative to hand washing when soap and water aren't available.
"The Hard Nut, " an alternative take on the ballet by the Brooklyn-based Mark Morris Dance Group featuring groovy 1960s dance moves and a remote-controlled rat, canceled performances in Berkeley, Calif.
Jonathan Harris, president of Alternative Investment Management LLC, a New York-based investment-management firm that allocates money to hedge funds, says he asks prospective fund managers to break out the list of expenses listed in the investor documents.
According to Dr Andre Menache, one of Noah's senior members and a Jerusalem-based veterinary surgeon, the ruling's stress on cruelty means any alternative to force-feeding will have to be provably non-harmful.
Therefore healthcare professionals should switch patients who are on Tekturna or any aliskiren-based products, in combination with an ACE or an ARB, to an alternative anti-hypertension regimen.
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Like Wells, it has an aggressive, transaction-based culture and has focused on alternative delivery channels, such as the Internet.
The Aspin reprogramming would also disrupt the alternative for defending the continental United States: the Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) program.
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