Quatre familles étrangères trônent sur le secteur bancaire de la RDC En très forte expansion, le secteur bancaire congolais est entièrement contrôlé par des capitaux étrangers. Quatre familles d’expatriés contrôlent près de 70% des parts du marché. Cependant, depuis le retrait de Kinduelo de la BIC, le secteur est orphelin d’une institution à capitaux véritablement congolais. Le secteur bancaire est certes en évolution depuis quelques années. Avec l’avènement de la 3ème République, le secteur bancaire a connu une traversée dans le désert. Dans le lot des groupes bancaires étrangers opérant en RDC, quatre familles dictent leur loi dans la marche de ce secteur. Si la Banque commerciale du Congo (BCDC) reste encore la seule vieille banque de la RDC – dont la création remonte en 1909 – elle n’est plus néanmoins sous l’entier contrôle du Groupe Fortis. A côté des Forrest, une autre famille possède presqu’un empire bancaire en RDC. Mais, c’est sans compter avec l’arrivée d’une autre institution bancaire qui nourrit également de grandes ambitions en RDC.
Believe in Atlantis? How About Lemuria? The mysterious continent of Atlantis may someday rise from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. At least that is what Edgar Cayce thought when he predicted that as research continued, scientists would discover remnants of the continent that existed 10,600 years prior to the arrival of what he termed The Prince of Peace (Christ). Some pictorials show Atlantis to be a continent smaller than Australia; others depict it to be larger than the United States. Unlike Atlantis, which was supposed to have been located in the Atlantic Ocean, Lemuria, also referred to as Mu, supposedly existed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One psychic, known as Madame (Helena) Blavatsky, claimed to have been shown references to the continent and believed the Lemurians were part of what she referred to as Root Races. According to various sources, Lemurians weren't as spiritually developed as the Atlanteans, who were supposedly very advanced scientifically. Sources:
How the Robots Lost: High-Frequency Trading's Rise and Fall Steve Swanson was a typical 21-year-old computer nerd with a very atypical job. It was the summer of 1989, and he’d just earned a math degree from the College of Charleston. He tended toward T-shirts and flip-flops and liked Star Trek: The Next Generation. He also spent most of his time in the garage of his college statistics professor, Jim Hawkes, programming algorithms for what would become the world’s first high-frequency trading firm, Automated Trading Desk. Among the BORG’s first prey were the market makers on the floors of the exchanges who manually posted offers to buy and sell stocks with handwritten tickets. By 2006 the firm traded between 700 million and 800 million shares a day, accounting for upwards of 9 percent of all stock market volume in the U.S. Graphic by StamenGraphic: Sixty Seconds of Chaos The definition of HFT varies, depending on whom you ask. Back in 2007, traditional trading firms were rushing to automate. Graphic by StamenGraphic: Race to the Starting Line
We reveal the seedy world of Samantha Armytage Doyle with another storm successfully chased. Exclusive: The real reason for Melissa Doyle’s Sunrise sacking. When Chief Disaster Chaser Melissa Doyle was recently cast aside tongues started physically wagging. Not because she was forced to scrape by on a paltry 450k a year, but because her replacement was going to be Sam Armytage. Armytage kicking social media goals yesterday. Being a social media hit is a mandatory for celebrities nowadays and Armytage presses all the right buttons with her team of dedicated reprobates building her profile on YouTube. Today, AKTIFMAG can reveal the tributes and messages of devotion from perverts nationwide that have got Channel 7 executives so excited: Some are even nice enough to offer new career advice: There is the almost semi-threatening: But with any social media profile you always run the risk of not having everyone support you: We’ll leave the last semi-word to ‘pkdream4′ Comments comments
The Opte Project With Any Luck, Call Of Duty Just Made Tea-Bagging Uncool Nothing against tea-bagging in first-person shooters other than it being played out, stupid-looking and annoying. But I guess it’s also super-hilarious, hence this immortal awards show moment a couple of years ago. Uproarious! Now. The glory of tea-bagging is celebrated in this brand-new online ad that promotes next month’s Call of Duty: Ghosts:
Une déclaration transatlantique des droits des multinationales Le mandat de négociation pour un accord étendu de libre commerce avec les Etats-Unis révèle la volonté de la Commission européenne de renforcer le pouvoir des entreprises transnationales. Le texte du mandat fait suite à une intense et longue campagne des lobbies de l’industrie et des officines juridiques pour permettre aux grandes compagnies de contester les réglementations nationales et internationales si elles affectent leurs profits. Ainsi, les Etats membres de l’UE peuvent voir leurs lois domestiques de protection des intérêts publics contestées dans des tribunaux offshore, secrets, dans lesquels les lois nationales n’ont aucun poids et les élus politiques aucun pouvoir d’intervention. Une multiplication des conflits En tant que principaux bénéficiaires des traités internationaux existant sur les investissements, les entreprises américaines et européennes ont multiplié les litiges investisseurs-Etat dans les deux dernières décennies. Multinationales contre santé publique Vattenfall v.
Zuckerberg said what about privacy? Researchers create archive to find out Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sometimes speaks quickly and his statements on Internet privacy are not always clear, so researchers have created an archive to collect everything the executive has said publicly, aimed at gaining a better understanding of where his company stands on privacy. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is hosting the Zuckerberg Files, a digital treasure trove containing over 100 full-text transcripts and about 50 video files documenting Zuckerberg’s public statements for scholars to download and analyze. The statements include Zuckerberg-authored blog posts, company presentations, and print and video interviews going as far back as 2004. Goals The archive is in its early stages, but its developers have ambitious goals. Take when Facebook first introduced its News Feed in 2006 and the ensuing user backlash. What isn’t said could be interesting too—Facebook doesn’t use the word “privacy” very often. On the road
HackerspaceWiki The Zuckerberg Files New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public Health. That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002. The study, conducted at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993. “The uninsured have a higher risk of death when compared to the privately insured, even after taking into account socioeconomics, health behaviors, and baseline health,” said lead author Andrew Wilper, M.D., who currently teaches at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Previous estimates from the IOM and others had put that figure near 18,000. The study found a 40 percent increased risk of death among the uninsured. Other authors include Karen E.