GVC Venture Corp. made a formal announcement of its recent acquisition of financial services holding company Halo Group Inc. in Allen, Texas, which was effective September 30, 2009.

The acquisition will enable GVC to provide consumers with financial solutions as the company takes advantages of Halo’s nationwide financial services. Through its nine subsidiaries, Halo offers mortgage brokerage, real estate representation and insurance protection, as well as financial distress assistance.

“We believe Halo’s completely integrated group of companies is the only one of its kind in the industry today. Our position in the market provides a compelling opportunity during these troubling economic times. We are prepared to meet this challenge head on and assist the consumers with their financial needs,” Cade Thompson, chairman and CEO of GVC stated in the press release.

According to the company, Halo common shareholders were issued a special class of GVC preferred stock. If all presently outstanding

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E*Trade Financial Corp. (ETFC) today completed a previously announced at-the-market common stock offering worth $150 million. The company sold approximately 80.2 million shares at an average price of $1.87 per share. The offering resulted in proceeds of $147 million, net of commissions and offering expenses.

In an at-the-market offering, a company sells shares at market prices over an extended course of time instead of selling all shares straight away at a fixed price. Sandler O'Neill & Partners, acted as sole distributing agent for E*Trade’s offering.

E*Trade is a global financial services company offering a wide range of financial solutions, including investing, trading, lending and cash management services to retail and institutional clients. The firm delivers its retail products and services to 3.4 million clients, primarily online, but increasingly via advisors and branches. E*Trade also offers specialist and market-making services globally to its institutional clients.

E-Trade has been raising

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Siemens AG (SI) recently bought a 40% stake in Israel-based Areva Power Co. for $15 million. Areva develops, builds and operates photovoltaic plants. This is another significant step in strengthening green and sustainable technology initiative by Siemens. Due to intensive sunlight and steadily growing demand for energy, Israel is an ideal location for developing solar energy business.

It will now be possible for Siemens to build Israel’s first commercial solar farm in the region between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea. The company will handle project management including engineering and construction of the photovoltaic plants. It has signed a framework agreement to build plants with a total output of 40 megawatts (MW). The first project will be construction of a plant with an output of up to 4.9 MW at Kibbutz Ketura, in the southern desert of Israel.

Areva Power was founded in 2006 and is headquartered

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Expansion in the healthcare industry can be a tall order, unless your company specializes in providing financial solutions in that specific field. The healthcare industry is a sect of the economy that will never go away, in fact, more companies everyday are looking for ways to get involved. When these expansions happen, it usually isn’t on a large enough scale to have a huge impact on the economy, but affects those involved, creating a wonderful opportunity for investors. Whatever the case, expansion promotes positive growth for everyone, especially when it involves helping others.

Healthcare facilities that are more rural and are outside of normal urban hospital settings don’t always hear the word quality. Their ambulatory surgical centers, rural and surgical hospitals as well as other centers are just as open for growth and opportunity and there are companies that focus all of their attention on them.

These types companies don’t just

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Tri-Isthmus Group, Inc., a provider of financial solutions to the healthcare industry, announced that it has received approval, effective immediately, for quotation on the Over the Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB) under the same symbol TISG.

TIGroup CEO and Chairman David Hirschhorn commented, “We are pleased with our move to the OTCBB from the Pink Sheets as we keep on building and expanding our underlying business platform. As our business grows, we continue monitoring our options for trading our shares on various exchanges and balancing the relative costs and benefits of each given the current capital market environment. It’s a key strategic and business goal for the company over time to improve overall liquidity in our publicly traded shares.”

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