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FINANCIAL ADVISOR INSIGHTS: Financial Services Firms Are Being Hacked By Their Competitors
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisers. Cyberattacks On The Finance Industry Have Doubled This Year (Financial Adviser Magazine) “Cyber assaults against the financial services companies nearly doubled this year, according to a report issued Monday by...
Powerful Photographs Show How Ukrainians Cope With Everyday Life During Wartime
In late 2013, English photographer Christopher Nunn found himself in a small town in Ukraine, alone and unable to speak the language, just as the crisis in Crimea was starting to foment. Equipped with only his camera, Nunn had been in the country for months, attempting to reconnect with his family’s forgotten Ukrainian roots through...
Ukraine PM calls for talks with Russia on ‘neutral territory’
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s prime minister on Tuesday called for fresh talks with Russia on “neutral territory” as deadly fighting rumbled on in the country’s east.”We invite the Russian Federation to hold serious negotiations on a neutral territory. The US and EU are helping us with this,” Arseniy Yatsenyuk...
NATO head sees ‘very serious’ Russian military build-up in Ukraine
Brussels (AFP) – Russia is making a “very serious” military build-up in Ukraine and on their shared border, deploying troops and sophisticated equipment including air defence systems, NATO head Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday.Moscow could be “part of a peaceful negotiated solution or Russia can continue on a path of...
NATO head sees ‘very serious’ Russian military build-up in Ukraine
Brussels (AFP) – Russia is making a “very serious” military build-up in Ukraine and on their shared border, deploying troops and sophisticated equipment including air defence systems, NATO head Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday.Moscow could be “part of a peaceful negotiated solution or Russia can continue on a path of...
PUTIN: Ukraine Is Great But It’s Missing One Thing…
Ukraine is a country “with a future” but it’s missing just one thing, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the German TV news station ARD. “It lacks, it seems to me, the understanding that to be successful, stable, prosperous, it’s necessary that all people who live in that territory, regardless of which language...
Fearing Ebola surge, Mali widens virus watch
Bamako (AFP) – Fearful of a surge of Ebola cases, Mali placed more than 440 people under surveillance, as a US hospital said Monday it had been unable to save the life of a doctor airlifted from Sierra Leone.Officials in Mali met to consider increasing security at its border following two confirmed cases of Ebola due to infection in...
Russia Will Lose $130 Billion As Capital Flees The Country
About $130 billion in capital is likely to leave Russia by the end of 2014, Bloomberg reports, citing Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. If confirmed, the figure would mark the second worst year for the country since the 2008 financial crash, in which $133 billion fled the country, and mark the seventh consecutive year of net outflows. It comes...
Video Shows The MH17 Crash Site Right After The Plane Went Down
A new video published by the Associated Press over the weekend shows billowing black smoke, fire, and confused residents in the immediate aftermath of the MH17 crash over eastern Ukraine. The witness video is likely the first that was shot after the plane went down. People who live in the village near the crash site first thought the Malaysia...
EU agrees to add Ukraine separatists to blacklist: diplomats
Brussels (AFP) – EU foreign ministers agreed Monday to hit more Ukraine separatists with asset freezes and travel bans, diplomats said, deepening sanctions over the crisis that pits pro-Kremlin rebels against Kiev. After a meeting in Brussels, the ministers asked the union’s diplomatic service to come up with a new blacklist...
