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Air India board beefed up, strategic investor on cards

The government has beefed up the board of badly struggling, state-owned carrier, Air India, with the induction of four independent directors with impressive records in their respective fields and is reportedly mulling inviting a strategi [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Airlines see scope for expanding cargo capacity

Shubhra Tandon India is in a crisis as it tries to adjust its infrastructure and, even more critically, its cost structure to the realities of today...,” Mr Giovanni Bisignani, Director General and CEO, International Air Transport [...]

Posted On : Mar, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Japan Airlines' cargo deal talks

The combination would have 30% of Japan's international air cargo market and would be the single largest cargo transport provider in Japan. The merger, due to complete in April next year, should enable the cargo business to make a pro [...]

Posted On : Aug, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Virgin Blue try to hose down chicken wrap poisoning scare

Cut price airline Virgin Blue is working with Queensland Health over fears passengers have been exposed to the potentially deadly bacteria, listeria, in chicken wraps served by the airline. Government agencies say listeria has a fatality [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

Banks ask employers to recover dues from credit card holders

In their constant pursuit of recovering dues from credit card customers, banks are empowering themselves with a tool that allows them to ask employers to deduct the outstanding amount from the salary. Employees who may have defaulted on pa [...]

Posted On : Jul, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Tempting teens with plastic: O2's new Load & Go pre-pay Visa...

Last year Lloyds TSB sparked outrage after Guardian Money revealed it had issued Visa debit cards to children as young as 11, without first contacting parents. One father discovered his 15-year-old son was buying Viagra, fake ID and cigaret [...]

Posted On : Jul, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

United Airlines passing credit card fees to some travel agen...

Three members of Congress representing South Florida have asked United Airlines to reverse a decision to force travel agents to the pay credit card fees when their customers buy tickets with plastic. In a letter dated Wednesday, Lincoln Di [...]

Posted On : Jul, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

China banks told to go easy in pushing credit cards

Don't issue credit cards to teenagers with no income and don't charge customers for cards they haven't activated. China's banking watchdog ordered banks on Thursday to rein in their credit card marketing amid concern over a rise in la [...]

Posted On : Jul, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

US Bank-Card Charge-Offs Reach 10% In May - S&P Report

Standard & Poor's said U.S. bank-card charge-offs reached a record 10% in May as unemployment continued to rise, according to its U.S. Credit Card Quality Index. As of May, the index tracked about $414.8 billion bank-card receivables a [...]

Posted On : Jul, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

North Carolina, Georgia, Kansas Bank Seizures Cost $363 Mill...

Banks in North Carolina, Georgia and Kansas with combined assets of $1.5 billion were seized by regulators last week, costing the U.S. insurance fund $363 million and pushing this year’s tally of failures to 40. Southern Community Ba [...]

Posted On : Jun, 22 2009 | Comments : 0

Business groups wary of first draft of health care bill

Business groups reacted warily Sunday to the Senate's first stab at overhauling the nation's health care system, a rift that could complicate President Obama's goal of achieving bipartisan support for his top domestic priority. Meanwhile, [...]

Posted On : Jun, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

Banks Get Stress Tests, Investors Get Stressed: Caroline Bau...

The idea wasn’t to create angst among investors. Rather, the stress tests were designed to assess the capital adequacy of the 19 biggest banks under a variety of economic scenarios during the next two years. Somehow, in the two [...]

Posted On : Apr, 22 2009 | Comments : 0

Healthcare workers putting patient data at risk

Healthcare professionals are putting sensitive patient information at risk by storing records, medical images, contact information and other data on unprotected mobile devices. A survey of around 1,000 workers from the healthcare industrie [...]

Posted On : Nov, 21 2008 | Comments : 0

City's funding for future retiree healthcare costs falls sho...

Healthcare costs for retired Boston city workers are expected to top $3 billion over the next 30 years, and the city is coming under increasing pressure to start setting aside more taxpayer money to cover the costs. Over the last two years [...]