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Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF) today disclosed the results of its company-administered Dodd-Frank Act Stress Test (DFAST) in accordance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF) is scheduled to release its second quarter 2018 financial results on Friday, July 20, 2018.
Regions Financial Corp. (NYSE:RF) today announced Timothy Vines and John Turner have been appointed to the boards of Regions Financial Corporation and its subsidiary, Regions Bank, effective July 2.
Goldman Sachs has released its list of bank stocks that could be big winners thanks to higher interest rates and deregulation.
Investors may want to back up the truck on their favorite regional bank stocks in light of the government's new legislation.
So much for that market rally. Here is some quick analysis on key news ahead of Wednesday's trading session. Always be prepared.
Jim Cramer weighs in on Altaba, Lloyds Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Vistra Energy, International Game Technology and more.
How is it that a really strong economy can actually hurt investors? Jim Cramer talks about interest rates, inflation, oil and bears.
Regions Bank today announced the release of its Social Responsibility Report - a testament to how the bank worked in 2017 to make life better for the communities it serves.
Regions Bank today announced the integration of its affordable housing businesses into one division.
Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF) announced today that John M. Turner Jr.
The Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF) Board of Directors today declared the following cash dividends on its common shares, Series A preferred shares, and Series B preferred shares: A cash dividend of $0.
Jim Cramer focuses on Regions Financial, Edwards Lifesciences, Align Technology, Applied Materials, Qualys, HEICO and more.
Jim Cramer says analysts and trade woes put a damper on buying ahead of the weekend. So let's get the game plan for next week.
Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF) today announced earnings for the first quarter ended March 31, 2018.
Regions Bank has received the 2018 Gallup Great Workplace Award, Gallup's highest honor that was created to recognize organizations for their ability to create an engaged workplace that drives business results.
Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Regions Insurance Group, Inc.
For the fifth consecutive year, Regions Bank is among the top 10 percent of hundreds of companies listed in the annual Temkin Experience Ratings.
Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF) is scheduled to release its first quarter 2018 financial results on Friday, April 20, 2018.
Here's what you need to know now for Tuesday, Feb. 27.
Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF) today announced that David J.
Regions Bank has been recognized by Greenwich Associates with 22 Excellence Awards based on how Regions is serving small-business and middle-market banking clients.
Following the release of interim results from a mid stage trial,Kite Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: KITE)appears on track to become the first company to launch achimeric antigen receptor T-cell, or CAR-T, therapy. If so, then the impressive efficacy observed in this trial may revolutionize how doctors tackle tough-to-treat lymphomas.
In a bid to offer DLBCL patients new hope, Kite Pharma developed KTE-C19, a CAR-T therapy that engineers a patient's T-cells so that they can identify and bind to the CD19 protein that's commonly expressed in B-cell cancers.
Today, Kite Pharma reported that tough-to-treat patients participating in their Zuma-1 study saw an impressive level of response to KTC-C19. Specifically, an interim look at response rates in 51 patients with DLBCL shows that 33% of patients had a complete response at the three-month mark. That's significant because, historically, complete responders at the three-month mark tend to remain complete responders.
Management also reported that KTE-C19's was effectivein 11 patients with two less common forms of NHL: transformed follicular lymphoma (TFL) and primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL). The complete response rate observed at the three-month mark for these patients was 64%.
Overall, complete response rates for all patients participating in the study was 39%. For perspective, the complete response rate at the three-, six-, and nine-month mark for the seven patients who participated in KTE-C19's previous phase 1 trial was 43%.
Those complete response rates are remarkable given how sick patients participating in this study were. According to Kite Pharma, the medianoverall survival for chemorefractory advanced DLBCL patients is about six months, and up until now, the complete response rates have been just 8%.
There were two patient deaths in the phase 2 trial that are being attributed tocytokine release syndrome (CRS), which results from T-cell over activity. However, patientdeaths aren't uncommon in trials involving this patient population and CRS was manageable in most patients.
Today's results were "interim" and additional information regarding the trial is planned for release at an upcoming conference. Management expects to sit down with the Food and Drug Administration soon to discuss KTE-C19's interim results.
The FDA may allow Kite Pharma to file for approval of KTE-C19 prior to having the complete results in hand early next year -- or the former may tell management to wait until it has all the data prior to filing. If the FDA allows a filing with the interim data, then it's possible thatKTE-C19 becomes commercially available by mid-2017. If not, then a mid-year FDA filing for approval could push back a decision until late next year or early in 2018.
Kite Pharma is ramping up its production capacity ahead of an expected regulatory green light, and because of those efforts, management believes it can craft enough KTE-C19 to support 5,000 patients in year one. It hasn't hinted at how much KTE-C19 will cost, but recently approved cancer drugs commonly carry six-figure annual price tags.
Overall,26,000 people will be diagnosed with DLBCL in the United States in 2016 and thousands more will be diagnosed with DLBCL in Europe. The company's potential to address the toughest-to-treat cases in both of these markets is significant. Since there's a massive need for new, life-extending drugs for these patients, I think KTE-C19 could justify a valuation that's much higher than Kite Pharma's current $3 billion market cap.
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An Ottawa man was sentenced to two years in jail minus time served for beating Breezy the dog with a shovel and leaving the animal in a dumpster.
An Ottawa man was sentenced to two years in jail for a "senseless attack" on his dog Breezy, a judge ruled Thursday.
Stephen Helfer, 24, "terrorized" his mother and victimized his neighbours in Manor Park when he beat Breezy with a shovel and left her in a dumpster in October, Justice Ann Alder ruled.
Stephen Helfer pleaded guilty to maiming an animal.
"His actions towards Breezy are deplorable, barbaric and cruel," she said in her decision. "It is difficult to imagine how a person could repeatedly hit a defenceless dog — their own pet — despite its cries, and then callously dump it in a dumpster."
Helfer was given 1.5 credit for his eight months of pre-trial custody, leaving a remaining sentence of 361 days, Alder said. He was also prohibited from owning animals for 25 years.
Helfer was sentenced to an additional four months in jail for a breaking-and-entering charge. His jail time will be followed by three years of probation.
Helfer pleaded guilty to maiming an animal in December.
Alder said in her decision that past sentences for animal abuse have ranged from 30 days to nine months in jail, though the maximum sentence is five years and a lifetime ban from owning animals.
The Crown had asked for a sentence of four years. The defence argued Helfer did not have a history of animal abuse and asked for nine months in jail.
Alder ruled that Helfer's guilty plea and expression of remorse were mitigating factors in his sentencing.
"He is a young man who has faced many obstacles and challenges in his life. It has not been easy and he had been marginalized," she said.
But she emphasized that his "behaviour must be denounced" and ruled that a longer sentence than the typical range was necessary.
"Those who inflict pain on animals, those who are deliberately brutal toward animals will face harsher sentences than in the past, as our society considers this behaviour morally reprehensible," she said.
The executive director of the Ottawa Humane Society said in a news release that the long sentence brings closure to an ugly case of animal cruelty.
Rye wrestling will be tough in the upper weights and has a promising group of freshmen.
Biggest losses to graduation: We lost a tough senior in Chase Bekkerus. He was one of our captains and just a workhorse in the room.
Top returning wrestlers: Tyler Webb wrestled 195 last year for us. He took sixth in the section at that weight and we are looking forward to see what he will do this year.
Strength of your lineup: We have a great deal of tough and experienced upper weights. From 182-285 will be our core.
Holes to fill: We are still figuring out who can/will fill some of our lighter weigh classes. We have a large freshmen class that will be at most of those weight classes for us this year.
Best technician on the team: Madoc Digiulio and Tommy Decaro are my most knowledgeable wrestlers and should both have a good season in their respective weight class.
Freakish athlete: Peter Patouhas is a new wrestler that has just picked everything up that we have taught him. He is stronger then he looks and doesn't know when to give up.
Toughest competitor: Tyler and Dylan Webb are my toughest competitors. They both had a great football season playing in the linebackers core and have brought a sense of meanness with them into the wrestling room.
Theme for the season: Our theme for the year is "going out with a bang" The team understands that this is our last year together as a core and they want to have the best season. Their goal is to win a league title this year.
Manheim Central will compete for the state championship after handling Upper Dublin in the PIAA 5A semifinals 34-12. The Barons jumped out to an early lead and never looked back as they dominated play to push their record to 14-0 on the season. Manheim Central will now take on Penn Hills in the title game at Hersheypark Stadium on Friday, December 7th at 7pm.
E-commerce was considered a threat to the brick-and-mortar retailer. Was it? Reality struck, defying past hype. Online retailers had to bend to their brick-and-mortar counterparts. The lines between e-commerce and physical retail are increasingly getting blurred, as traditional retailers have expanded their online and mobile presence. At the same time, the world’s most iconic online retailer Amazon is gobbling up stakes in retailers in India and putting up stores of its own. Ditto with many etailers that were launched in cyberspace.
The Walmart-Flipkart deal has broad implications for all of retail. Particularly, in a diverse country as India, physical stores are not disappearing any time soon. More than 95 per cent of retail transactions still happen at small shops, malls, retail chains. Even Ikea is set to invest Rs 20,000 crore to open 25 stores in India. Nevertheless, retailers will/must go digital to log onto “smartphone” shoppers.
Glass-and-steel retailers have the opportunity to offer consumers an experience that surpasses that of online. Social media, personalisation and subscriptions are likely to define the future of online retail, with social media driving wider choice, product discovery and purchases, utilising AI and other emergent technologies, such as voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, Google, etc.
Besides, private equity firms and wealth funds invested $800 million in 2017 in retail to cater to India’s growing middle class and rapidly increasing consumer spending, seeing that the country ranked first in the Global Retail Development Index 2017. Indian retail accounts for more than 10 per cent of the country’s GDP and around 8 per cent of employment.
One of those integrating online and offline retailing is RIL, which is creating a hybrid online-to-offline commerce platform, integrating and synergising Reliance Retail’s physical marketplace with its telecom unit Reliance Jio Infocomm’s digital infrastructure and services, using digital data to reach out to shoppers. Other pure play online retailers are going physical, mainly to cater to and enhance the touchy-feely shopping experience. It’s all happening in retailing, and the good news for customers is that they will always be pampered.
This is the reason we decided to do our first cover in this issue of BW Businessworld on the evolving retail / etail space. We say the future is here, with the opening up of the omnichannel stores. A highly readable story that captures the evolution in the space.
Our second cover is a mélange of interesting personalities. In the governance space, in popular perception, as also in BW Businessworld surveys, Minister Nitin Gadkari has brought about the most visible change on the ground. We put him on the cover and debate if he will power PM Narendra Modi’s 2019 re-election bid.
In the corporate world, Britannia was in the news recently for having completed 100 years in India. We feature its MD Varun Berry, and ask if the rebranding exercise is enough for it to keep its dominant market share going.
The third personality on the second cover is Manu Kumar Jain, the India MD of Xiaomi. The Chinese company is now the leader in the smartphone market in India.
This issue of BW Businessworld comes with all other regular features and columns.
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The Dia de los Muertos celebration in Carbondale includes dancers from Aspen Sante Fe Ballet Folklorico.
Delfinita Gets A Visit From La Chokani” by Mexican playwright Karmina L. Fanjul is part of the Dia de los Muertos celebration in Carbondale.
Friday, 5-8 p.m. Celebrate Day of the Dead beginning at 5 p.m. at Third Street Center, 520 S. Third St. Festivities there include altar viewing, face painting, Mexican hot chocolate and other treats. At 6:15 p.m., those gathered will participate in a procession to Thunder River Theatre, 67 Promenade. From there, the Que Viva ceremony will begin. Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Folklorico will perform at Thunder River at 7 and 7:45 p.m. At the same times, El Colectivo will perform the original puppet show “A Delfinita la Visita La Chokani / Delfinita Gets A Visit From La Chokani” at The Launchpad, 76 S. Fourth St.
Altars have been erected, food prepared. Friday night, communities will come together to celebrate the memories of loved ones who have died, and invite their souls back for a day.
Dia de los Muertos is a tradition with roots in southern Mexico, and the local celebration in Carbondale brings Anglo, Hispanic and Latino communities together.
The event, which coincides with the town’s First Friday celebration, is a collaboration between a number of area entities. Valley Settlement Project has been involved since 2012, and Dia de los Muertos is an opportunity for the organization to connect its program participants to the community as a whole.
VSP provides early childhood education and parent and adult engagement programs to immigrant families in the Roaring Fork Valley. Since VSP became involved in Dia de los Muertos, local Hispanic and Latino community members have been more easily able to contribute their strengths to the event. Program families prepare food, such as tamales and Mexican hot chocolate, and lend a more homemade, authentic touch.
“This is a way to let them know there’s more outside the programs (VSP offers),” executive director Jon Fox-Rubin said.
Carbondale Arts and Thunder River Theatre Company began hosting Dia de los Muertos celebrations more than a decade ago and ultimately combined for the annual tradition. Richard Lyon has been involved since the beginning and regularly leads the event’s invocation.
There is darkness below the lamp, they say and it is more than true for people in a few villages - Ragihosalli, Keregani, Mundagaru, Etagar, Sampekatte, Totadagadde and Bugadi of the taluk in Uttara Kannada district.
This district provides 2,000 megawatts (MW) of power from its seven hydropower projects and the Kaiga Atomic Power Station. But these villages have none of it.
They have to subsist on candle lights and kerosene lamps. For three decades now, only promises have been generated.
Everyone in the 75 houses in the seven villages, sunset does not make way for electric lights. The student population have to depend on non-electric lights to do their homework and study after nightfall.
These villages remind one of the pre-independence villages when electric lights were a luxury.
Ragihosalli is 35 km from the taluk centre. The rickety road from there leads to the less fortunate villages. Electricity poles, along with transformers, were erected in these villages way back in 1982-83. But then, the terrain and the frequent rains led the authorities to postpone work on providing power to these villages. During rain, heavy branches of trees fell on the supply lines and the work was hampered.
The power lines were stolen and a case was registered in this connection. Hescom has never bothered to supply electricity to the people.
Sridhar Gouda, a resident, said: “We are running from pillar to post to get electricity. But that seems far-fetched. Fortunately, the Department of Forests has been providing solar power connections. This has ensured that our children at least know what electricity is all about. But its scope is limited, as it lasts only for a few hours.” A majority of people in these areas are tribals and backward classes like Marathis, Goudas and Naiks. The main crops of the area are paddy and arecanut. A majority of the locals belong to the working class.
All in all, power is not absolute for these people.
If a website falls under attack by a hacker, why shouldn't it be able to respond? Juniper Networks shows ZDNet how businesses can fight back against common website attacks and help others know what is coming.
Websites that can self-defend against attackers If a website falls under attack by a hacker, why shouldn't it be able to respond? Juniper Networks shows ZDNet how businesses can fight back against common website attacks and help others know what is coming.
Australian banks like the National Australia Bank have said that organisations should look at the early warning signs of an attack and take action, but no one does.
However, according to Juniper Networks' Director of product management Swastik Bihani, not only is it possible to detect and take action when an attacker targets a website, today's technology allows companies to slow their attacker down, profile them, and even share information to prevent completely separate businesses from being attacked by the same person.
In a technical demonstration session with ZDNet, Bihani shows how traditional web application firewalls fail to prevent simple but common SQL injection attacks, and how businesses can instead mislead would-be attackers in order to give up more information about themselves.
After identifying an attack, businesses now have several options to protect themselves according to the capabilities of their attacker. Bihani told ZDNet that depending on the business' risk appetite, they could scale up their response to an attacker's actions accordingly.
For example, Bihani said that a curious developer might change a few input fields or URL parameters without intending to do any damage, so a company that finds that activity acceptable may allow them continue using their site, but just monitor what they do. On the other hand, more sophisticated honeypot situations could be set up, such as fake access control lists with hashed passwords, and if an attempt was made to break them, the business would know they were under attack by someone who has malicious intent.
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If you own an iPhone, there’s a good chance you run into battery problems now and again — times you wish you had the battery life to take one more photo, look up the location of a restaurant or make a quick phone call. But the more we use and rely on our smartphones, the more likely they are to run out of juice when we need them most.
With a bit of awareness about how you use your iPhone and what apps you’re using on it, you can curb your iPhone’s battery-draining tendencies. We’ll take a look at what types of apps commonly drain battery power and look into ways to keep your iPhone juiced up.
The biggest battery drain by far are the apps you’re always using. Do you keep Facebook open on your iPhone and check it regularly? Do you have AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) open on your phone to talk to friends on the go, or Pandora streaming music in the background? Some of these apps keep running in the background, burning battery life even when you aren’t paying any attention to them.
Looking at our examples, Facebook actively notifies you of new updates or messages, AIM constantly checks to see if your friends are on or offline, and streaming apps like Netflix, Hulu, Pandora and Spotify keep streaming until you tell them to stop. As long as these apps are active and doing things, they’re burning through your battery life.