Several least-developed countries have also benefitted from voluntary carbon finance, including Cambodia (4.3 million tonnes, valued at $40 million) -- home to Terra Global Capital's Oddar Meanchey forestry project, which has received financing courtesy of software giant Microsoft's internal carbon fee program.
Almanza, who joined G4S as finance director in May and was promoted to the top job within a month, also announced the appointment of Himanshu Raja, current finance director of software group Misys, as G4S's new finance chief from October.
The personal finance category of software is an old one.
This finances developers of software that can "beat the news": forecasting political crises and mass violence in a reliable way.
Vendors and lenders alike were long leery of financing software because of its intangible nature: if a customer stops paying, there is no practical way to repossess the leased product, and the deal can be a total loss to the lender.
Much of the angels' money has gone to consumer-internet firms and makers of software apps.The financing of more mature tech start-ups has also changed.
Some of the world's biggest record companies, facing rampant online piracy, are quietly financing the development and testing of software programs that would sabotage the computers and Internet connections of people who download pirated music, according to industry executives.
The review crimped the short-term financing of the company, a software maker, because fewer investors can buy commercial paper from a company that may be downgraded soon.
Measuring its collection of apps against the standards of the Open Web Application Security Project or OWASP, Veracode found that only 16% of government web applications were secure, compared with 24% of finance industry software and 28% of commercial software.
But wouldn't you agree that an understanding of finance, software or telecom is what's needed in 2001?
