Combined with creative director Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails, How to Destroy Angels) and a roster of musical minds to guide you, Beats is marketing itself for its curatorial prowess and is banking that their cache and histories as innovators will lend a musicianly air to what has so far been a crowded and decidedly under-evolved streaming-music experience.
The IMF and the Financial Stability Board, a global club of regulators, want to know more about the mismatch of the maturities of banks' assets and liabilities, the connections between banks and the rest of the financial system, and non-bank financial firms, just for starters.Testing times aheadThe first test of central banks' macroprudential prowess may already be upon them.
His first big break came when Dutch powerhouse Spinnin Records plucked the youngster out of a promo pool and signed him as an exclusive artist, banking on his production prowess which they viewed as a bit of a mold-breaker from the big-room sound the label had been known for. .
The sheer fact that they were able to take complete control of the department's computer as well as take over their bank account online is an indictment of the fools at the bank, not the prowess of the hackers.
How many families bank their child's future on athletic prowess translating into scholarship, fame, and an NFL career?
Using the bank's lending prowess to bolster its brokerage service was at the core of Mr. DeMartini's strategy, people who have worked for him said.
Besides, almost every sizable bank with any technology prowess had already worked with Microsoft.
Antigone Loudiadis, more widely known as "Addy", has been richly rewarded by the bank for her dealmaking prowess and now sits atop one of Europe's fastest growing insurance companies, Rothesay Life.
It stained the reputation of a bank long known for its risk prowess, claimed the jobs of top bank executives and triggered a flurry of investigations.
Worst of all for Germany's reputation as export champion of the world is the suspicion that it may owe some of its prowess to secret bank accounts and slush funds.Klaus Kleinfeld, Siemens's chief executive since January 2005, may escape the full wrath of shareholders.
