Posted on April 8, 2021 by Nick Farrell - News
Beancounters at ISG have noticed that global demand for technology and business services continues to rise, reaching an all-time high in the first quarter, with a growing pipeline of deals signalling continued expansion in 2021 as the economy begins to emerge from the pandemic.
Data from the ISG Index, which measures commercial outsourcing contracts with annual contract value (ACV) of $5 million or more, show first-quarter ACV for the combined global market (both as-a-service and managed services) reached a record $17.1 billion, up 11 percent over last year and up four percent from the fourth quarter.
Contributing Writer Caryn Mlodzianowski speaks on behalf of Dollar General at a Wilmington Planning-Zoning Board meeting Monday at the townâs firehouse. The retail company plans to build a store in Wilmington.
(Provided photo â Tim Follos) People listen at a Wilmington Planning-Zoning Board meeting Monday at the townâs firehouse.
(Provided photo â Tim Follos) Maggie Pope, left, speaks on behalf of Peru Federal Credit Union at a Wilmington Planning-Zoning Board meeting Monday at the townâs firehouse. The board approved the credit union to build a branch office in Wilmington.
(Provided photo â Tim Follos)
Caryn Mlodzianowski speaks on behalf of Dollar General at a Wilmington Planning-Zoning Board meeting Monday at the townâs firehouse. The retail company plans to build a store in Wilmington.
PRIMER: Regulation Best Interest
IFLR’s latest free-to-read primer looks at Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation Best Interest, addressing what it is, what it does and related retail investor protection issues April 07 2021
Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI) is a Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) package of rules aimed at improving the quality and
transparency of retail investors’ interactions with investment advisers and
broker-dealers.
IFLR’s latest free-to-read primer looks at the rule,
addressing what it is, what it does and related retail investor protection
issues.
What is Regulation
Best Interest?
The rule, adopted in 2019, requires
that investment recommendations by advisers and broker-dealers are made in the customers’
BIG cat sightings are reported across the country every year, and Herefordshire is no exception. From attacks on horses and sheep, to strange sightings in dark lanes, there has been plenty of potential big cat activity in the county over the years. A wave of ‘black beast’ sightings were reported during the late 1990s, with famous Herefordshire cases include the Woolhope Wildcat in 1994 and numerous spottings of the Herefordshire Phantom Feline, also known as Big Puss , from 1996 to 2000. But reports later dropped off and by 2002 the county had claimed bottom place in a nationwide table of sightings. But in December 2009, Hereford man Steve Hall saw a feline-like creature, about two-and-a-half feet tall, stalking its way over farmland near Newtown Crossroads and recorded it on video.