Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. (JLL), a leading real estate investment trust (REIT), has been selected by SunTrust Banks Inc. (STI), a premier banking organization in the U.S., to provide integrated facility management services across its entire portfolio spanning 16 million square feet.

With the deal, Jones Lang would be entrusted to effectively manage the day-to-day tasks related to the operations across SunTrust’s facilities. SunTrust operates an extensive branch and ATM network throughout Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, DC. Jones Lang’s leading position in property and corporate facility management services would enable it to improve the operational efficiency of SunTrust.

On the other hand, the deal strengthens Jones Lang’s position in the market and offers it an expanded role in the operations of one of the largest banking organizations of the country. Jones Lang is a leading full-service real estate firm that provides corporate, financial,

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NCR Corporation (NCR) has declared that its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Anthony Massetti will resign on October 23, the day after the company’s third-quarter earnings release. Massetti will take up a new assignment with telecommunications major Avaya Inc. Robert Fishman, corporate controller, will take the responsibility as interim CFO until NCR finds a replacement for the CFO position. During May 2007 to January 2008, Fishman had been interim CFO at NCR and joined the company way back in 1993. He looked after the finance function of the company at various positions. This recent news had a negative impact on the share price of the company, which took a hit on Thursday, a day after NCR announced the news. NCR’s last closing price on Oct. 8th was $11.82, down around 12.5% from the previous day's close. NCR is moving its corporate headquarters to Georgia from Ohio, cutting ...

NCR Corp. (NCR) has secured the biggest order of automated teller machines (ATMs) in India. The State Bank of India (SBI) has entered into an agreement to purchase around 3,800 ATM machines from NCR. The leading bank of India also signed a seven year service contract with the company.   The bank is already using 10,000 NCR ATMs and this repeat order reinforces the fact that SBI is satisfied with the quality and service of NCR. Under this new agreement, NCR will be instrumental in ATM deployment, site implementation service, maintenance and site implementation service. NCR will be supplying the DVSS (Digital Video Surveillance Systems) along with the ATMs to prevent fraudulent activities. The financial terms of the deal is not yet disclosed by the company.   This apart, the company is rolling out new products at regular intervals and resolving operational issues of its customers around the ...

Pursuant to the overdraft reforms pressed by Congress, Regions Bank, a subsidiary of Regions Financial Corporation (RF) announced changes to its overdraft fee policies. It announced to overhaul the overdraft fees on consumers in case the account is overdrawn by less than $5 dollars. The bank also announced that it has limited the number of overdraft fees to no more than four per day. It would also offer “opt out" ability to customers who prefer that the bank decline or return any transaction on their account, whenever possible, when they are presented against insufficient funds. The bank would also provide customers with a number of overdraft protection options as well as account monitoring services through online, mobile, ATM and telephone banking. The changes will take effect during the first quarter of 2010. The changes follow U.S. congressional leaders' criticism of bank account fees and come ...

Today we are going to venture into foreign lands, unknown and esoteric places that most of us are only faintly familiar with. Let's take a trip to the Greeks! Greece, that little group of islands in the Mediterranean, has provided the world with some pretty impressive things: mythology, the Olympics, famous thinkers, groovy architecture...and a funky alphabet full of symbols that are applied in various ways around the globe. A handful of these symbols have come to be known in the Options world simply as "The Greeks".

< ?DART(15);?> Delta, Gamma, Vega (which is technically not one of the Greek symbols, but is an old car...go figure?), Theta and Rho are the representations of various aspects of option pricing that we call the Greeks. Each one addresses a particular variable in the movement of an option premium. We will walk thru Delta, the most popular of the

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Consorteum Holdings Inc. (OTC BB: CSRH) Providing Government Agencies a Streamlined Benefits Payment Solution.

-Social Security may be more secure than ever-

Prepaid benefit cards have been developed to allow federal, state, municipal, and provincial governments to deposit Social Assistance and other government Benefit payments directly onto a prepaid card instead of issuing

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Consorteum Holdings Inc. (OTC BB: CSRH) Providing Government Agencies a Streamlined Benefits Payment Solution.

-Social Security may be more secure than ever-

Prepaid benefit cards have been developed to allow federal, state, municipal, and provincial governments to deposit Social Assistance and other government Benefit payments directly onto a prepaid card instead

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Consorteum Holdings Inc. owes much of its success to plastic. Not the plastics industry, but to plastic cards, like the ones that every American seems to carry twenty of whenever they go to the store. If you could use a time machine to bring someone from the 1950s to the present, one of the first things they would notice is the almost total replacement of cash and checks with plastic cards. Cards are easier to use, less messy, quicker, and generally more efficient for everyone involved, including the consumer, the merchant, and the bank.

Banks, of course, have a special love for debit cards, which have exploded in use, and now exceed credit card purchases. Banks like them because they can get a fee from merchants whenever they are used. As a result, there are now countless bank-sponsored rewards programs enticing

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This morning, ADP (ADP), the nation’s largest payroll processing firm, released its estimate of job losses in August. They came in at a decline of 298,000 jobs for the private sector. This is significantly worse than the consensus expectations of a decline of 250,000. There was a little bit of good news in the report in that this is still an improvement over the 360,000 lost in July -- a number that was revised from an original read of 371,000 jobs lost. The losses in August were almost evenly split between the Goods Producing Sector (Construction & Manufacturing), which lost 152,000 jobs, and the Service sector, which dropped 146,000. By size of business, the big firms are holding up best with a decline of 60,000. Medium-sized firms (between 50 and 499 employees) shed 116,000 jobs while small businesses slashed their payrolls by 122,000. Even the Auto industry, ...

Global Axcess Corp. today announced that it has signed a five-year contract, valued at more than $550,000 per year, with a U.S. regional convenience store chain for ATMs at 52 locations. According to the terms of the contract, Global Axcess will install, maintain and conduct transaction processing for ATMs in 52 of the customer’s convenience store outlets. The company anticipates delivering the ATMs to the customer this month, with full installation to be completed in October.

Mr. George McQuain, Chief Executive Officer of Global Axcess, stated, “By transitioning from a processing only system to a turnkey solution managed by Global Axcess, this customer has enabled their managers to focus on serving their customers and not managing ATMs. The customer indicated that our Industry leading customer service, ATM up-time and on-time residual payments were the deciding factors in winning the account.”

He added, “Our value proposition to grocery and convenience store chains

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