Travelex Announce New Mobile Balance Alerts for Holidaymakers

London, UK May 28, 2010

Travelex has helped holidaymakers and overseas travellers worrying about the risk of running out of foreign exchange, thanks to a clever currency card which sends its owner a free text message alert when it runs low on money.

The service is available to Travelex Cash Passport (http://www.cashpassport.com/1/en/uk/ ) cardholders, through a partnership with Monitise. Customers who purchase the card will receive a free text message on their mobile phone when the cards credit drops below &163;100. Customers can then call Travelex, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, go online or visit a branch to reload their card with more money.

The new service is free and comes with all new MasterCard Cash Passports (http://www.cashpassport.com/1/en/uk/ ) and, as long as the customer registers their mobile number at the point of purchase, can be used abroad straightaway.

Mark Horgan, Managing Director of Card and Mobile Payments at Travelex said, "When you&39;re abroad the last thing you want to worry about is running out of foreign currency." (http://www.cashpassport.com/1/en/uk/ ).

"Our customers already use an online and telephone balance enquiry service and, with the holiday season looming, we&39;re pleased to offer this new SMS service to help them relax and unwind. And many foreign ATMs also offer balance enquiry facilities too."

Alastair Lukies, Chief Executive Officer of Monitise, added, "We are delighted to help holiday makers and business travellers relax through quick and worry-free management of their travel budgets."

The low balance text alert service has been launched in the UK for all new Cash Passport currency cards (http://www.cashpassport.com/1/en/uk/ ) and will be rolled out to Europe and Asia Pacific at a later date.

The new services are part of a global product upgrade programme by Travelex, which includes adding &39;chip&PIN&39; technology and making the Cash Passport more accepted worldwide through an alliance with MasterCard.

Travelex has already issued 400,000 Cash Passports in the UK and from May 2010 the new Cash Passport services will automatically be available to all UK MasterCard Cash Passport cardholders. The new service is available in seven currencies including the US dollar and euro and provides a way to carry money abroad, make purchases or withdraw cash without incurring overseas usage charges.

About Travelex:
Travelex is the world&39;s foreign exchange and international payments specialist. Operating through subsidiaries and branches in six regions: the United Kingdom; Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA); Americas and Asia Pacific.

As one of the world&39;s leading providers of outsourced travel money to banks, travel agencies and other retailers, it provides products including its prepaid travel card (http://www.cashpassport.com/1/en/uk/ ) to millions of customers every year. Through its world-leading automation, Travelex offers consumers a full range of delivery channel options including telephone and web-based ordering.

About Monitise
Monitise plc (LSE: MONI.L) has created the world&39;s first mobile money networks, which allow customers of multiple banks and mobile operators to perform banking and payment transactions directly from their mobile handset.

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BusinessFinance.com Introduces How to Establish Business Credit Card Accounts Through Business Finance Coach

Foothill Ranch, CA 29, 2010 BusinessFinance.com has launched a resource that shows businesses how to establish business credit cards without using the owner’s social security number. This is one of the necessary steps every business owner must take to separate their personal credit from their business credit. The information is provided inside the Business Finance Coach.

“Businesses must have three (3) business credit cards in order to build solid business credit scores,says Corey Pierce, Founder of BusinessFinance.com. “You can find over 500 credit cards that claim to be business credit cards, but out of those only 42 will issue a card without using your social security number. So those other 458 are credit cards with your business name on it, but they are not business credit cards.

The most important feature of these business credit cards is that they report the business credit history to the Small Business Financial Exchange which means that the business will then have a credit report file with Equifax that is critical to a business being able to receive bank loans for working capital and other needs in the future. Without that, the business will almost always be declined for financing.

The Business Finance Coach discloses all of the information about the 42 business credit cards. It let’s the business owner see exactly what it takes to qualify for each card before they apply. It shows a business owner things like; they must be in business for 6 months or a year before they apply or that they must have a certain bank rating before they apply, etc. The Business Finance Coach let’s a business owner pre-approve themselves for each card and know they will get the card because they meet the guidelines for approval.

The Business Finance Coach also teaches business owners the 20 items every business must have in place in order to even be looked at for a business loan. The Coach also goes into detail about what it takes to obtain five (5) vendor lines of credit, how to get listed with the three (3) business credit reporting agencies, and what they must do to get their first business loan from a bank. For more information on the Business Finance Coach you can visit http://www.businessfinancecoach.com.

To complement the Business Finance Coach, http://www.BusinessFinance.com features the Internet’s largest Business Funding Directory. The directory has 4,952 sources of business capital that business owners can search for free and match their capital needs to the approval criteria of those funding sources.

Top finance leaders met over weekend

6, 2009 On Sunday, world finance officials met within the semi-annual IMF and World Bank meeting to discuss the world&194;’s top issues and find the ways to resolve.

Finance ministers and central bankers from 180 countries paid attention to the recent threats global economy may face as the possibility of higher oil prices and terrorism attacks.

World economy potential is now considered to be highly dependent on oil prices, leading economists say. With oil prices being at the record highs in several years global economy may suffer from the recent figures of $50 per barrel as oil supply concern and disruptions connected with hurricanes hit U.S. in the recent months oil can be the very determining factor to rule economy tune. Oil supply cuts all over the world may lead to oil prices remain stable at $50 per barrel till 2010.

During the meeting, economists pointed the need for the International Energy Agency to keep eye for oil market with the control of OPEC.

In terms of the possibility of being hit by terrorists, finance leaders said it is important to promote world peace and security. "Defending the integrity of the world&39;s financial system and avoiding its mismanagement for irregular purposes are crucial features to peace," said Luis Morais Leitao, Portugal&39;s secretary of state for treasury and finance.

Rodrigo Rato, the IMF new managing director said the global recovery still can be in danger as oil prices go higher. He tried to encouraged top bankers to communicate their rate plans to markets to let them adjust.

On the parallel meeting of G7 on Friday, the U.S. also promoted the forgiveness of Iraqi debt as it accounts for $120 billion to individual countries and $40 billion to G7.

China was the member of the meeting for the first time and faced slight criticism of yuan being unconverted.

Financegates.com is an experienced guide to the world of finance. Our goal is to provide tools and information that help consumers make best financial decisions. FinanceGates.com operates a portfolio of internet-based personal finance channels including banking, mutual funding, stock brokerage, insurance and e-payments.

Travel Insurance Company Bows Out

Montreal, QC May 6, 2006

Mr. Ivon T. Hughes of the Hughes Trustco Group today advised its life insurance brokers that as of Friday May 5th, they would no longer be able to sell travel insurance for RBC Insurance, as the company has discontinued its distribution through life insurance brokers.

"While this is not great news, Manulife has strong travel insurance products and I expect they will pick up the majority of the slack," said Mr. Hughes. "Originally the Manulife products were developed by Liberty Mutual which distributed its products widely across the province and country. Subsequently this company was purchased by Maritime Life which commenced to put its stamp on the operations."

However, when Maritime Life was sold to Manulife, the emphasis and direction of the travel insurance section changed yet again. And now with the withdrawal of RBC from the life insurance brokerage/travel insurance market, an aggressive step forward by Manulife to the sector can be anticipated.

Travel insurance, especially after 9/11, has become a must-have item. Along with your ticket and debt-free credit card, you need to have a comprehensive travel insurance policy. And that means an inclusive policy to cover all possibilities of sicknesses and accidents along with the lost luggage. If you are sick in a hotel room in a country where you don&39;t speak the language, how are you going to communicate with the doctor And what if there is no doctor available Who pays the cost of travel, perhaps by ambulance, to get to a medical facility

A comprehensive travel insurance policy will include all this and more. This is not a time to try to get a bargain or cut out what seem like frills. As you should not bargain over price with your plastic surgeon, don&39;t bargain over the cost of your travel insurance.

About the Hughes Trustco Group

The Hughes Trustco Group went online in June 1998 to supply information about life insurance to consumers from all the life insurance companies. The website is visited every day by persons seeking information on term life insurance, disability insurance, critical illness and all forms of life&health insurance. Life insurance quotes are provided from all the companies allowing the client to make an independent assessment.

Pelican System Helps Hotel Incheon Airport Manage Payment Online Facility

January 19, 2005

This advance payment control system, a component of Pelican System&39;s online contracting feature, largely automates the processing of advance payments and credit from travel agents and corporate clients.

The facility offers a number of user-configurable options to handle most types of advance payments, including credit-card online payment, advance deposit, prepayment, and client credit. Besides setting credit limits and pay-by dates, the facility can be configured to suggest alternate payment options. For example, an agent who has used up his advance deposit might be offered the opportunity to pay by credit card for an additional, last minute, and booking.

Detailed reports on account balances, at-a-glance overviews, and warning flags generated by the facility can greatly simplify management and control of commercial payments. This facility will keep track of payment due dates, payments received &194;– whether by agents, corporate entities or directly from the guest &194;– and commissions payable in the case of direct customer payment. The facility can prove particularly useful with new clients or travel agents / corporate clients, by automatically monitoring compliance with prepayment dates for initial reservations, rapidly establishing whether the client or agent will be eligible for credit.

The Incheon Airport Hotel, an institution dealing with high travel agent client traffic, no longer has to see monitoring and controlling of customer credit as a burden.

&194;‘This payment system is one important instrument in dealing with travel agent clientele. Pelican System not only eases us in reservation procedures but we also find the advance payment system handy&194;’ observes Mr Viraj Mangaldas Pai, Manager &194;– Admin&Business Development.

&194;‘Monitoring payments from travel agents becomes less time consuming&194;’, he adds.

About Incheon Airport

Hotel is lying at a distance of just 8 minutes from Incheon International Airport, Seoul is an ideal Hotel for Backpackers, Business Travellers and Honeymoon Guests as it offers wide range of services. Travellers those who have to catch early morning flights and also arriving late at night at Incheon International Airport or Gimpo Domestic Airport better enjoy impressive comfort and relaxing atmosphere in this new conceptual business class hotel. Multilingual staff that can speak ENGLISH, KOREAN, JAPANESE, CHINESE, RUSSIAN AND HINDI makes you feel at home

About Pelican System

Pelican is an Internet-based reservation system designed to manage all types of bookings, whether made directly by guests or through travel agents and corporate clients.

For Internet users (direct guests) Pelican will provide instant confirmation of reservations made through the hotel web site, and will notify the hotel&194;’ reservation department though automatically generated e-mail messages.

For travel agents and corporate clients Pelican offers a feature called &194;“Online Contracting,&194;” which eliminates the need for paper-based, fixed-term contracts, allowing the hotel to set and adjust rates and allotments instantly according to seasonal period, special events, or unexpected demand.

Pelican system provides a secure link to agents and clients, allowing hotels to distribute confidential trade rates to pre-authorized recipients, and to share allotments among many agents and clients on a &194;“first-come-first-served&194;” basis. Each agent or client accesses the system directly from the hotel&194;’s own web site with a unique login/password combination, allowing the hotel to assign each user to a specific group, and to determine the information and privileges each group will receive.

With Pelican system, the hotel has complete control at all times, and can easily monitor activity through instantly generated summaries and full reports.

For more information please visit http://www.pelicansystem.com

Cheap Car Insurance Quotes with http://www.CarInsuranceQuotes.uk.com

UK 3 September 2011

At last two incredible cheap car insurance websites have joined forces to create one of the top financial price comparison sites on the Internet. Now consumers can find substantial bargains and discounts without having to scroll through a dozen different competing sites. QuoteyQuotey.com in partnership with CarInsuranceQuotes.uk.com is pleased to be able to offer consumers cheap car insurance quotes across the board via its innovative “BeatThatQuotesearch engine. Whether consumers are seeking family, high performance pursuits, hot hatch, prestige, convicted driver, 4x4, imported or sports car insurance, this website can effortlessly find the best deals with just a few simple clicks. The sites also provide comprehensive details on life insurance, health insurance, mortgages, credit card rates, and other financial policies. Most customers save up to &163;550 or more by using this service.

How It Works

While many insurance companies offer listings on their rates, it can be difficult for a consumer to effectively compare the market without spending hours entering detailed personal information on individual sites. QuoteyQuotey.com simplifies this process by employing one of the finest quote finding search engines on the web, BeatThatQuote. Recently purchased by Google, BeatThatQuote is widely considered to be the most concise and accurate online quote comparison engine. The engine will compare the market of over 100 car insurers and brokers from around the UK in order to deliver the most current deals right to each customer’s desktop or mobile display.

Those who want to find an estimate or quote can enter their information onto QuoteyQuotey.com and instantly receive a thorough and accurate comparison of prices. The quote engine searches for all types of vehicles, including cars, vans, bikes, and trucks. As a bonus, carinsurancequotes.uk.com also compares prices on a variety of other types of insurance, including pet, travel, life and health insurance. The engine has also expanded its reach to help consumers find up to date rate information on mortgages, loans, credit cards, and income protection policies.

The combination of these two highly efficient sites gives consumers a significant advantage for car insurance price comparison, regardless of the specific insurance policy or plan they may be seeking. The site has built its reputation not only on its thorough search capability, but its commitment to delivering the best possible rate to each individual customer. QuoteyQuotey.com is highly competitive in all types of insurance. If there’s a remarkable discount on any type of financial policy in the UK, customers can rely on QuoteyQuotey.com to find it.

This is not a one-size fits all operation, but rather a thoughtfully organised process which retrieves the best possible quotes. The longevity of the site is due in part to its overwhelmingly positive customer reviews and in part to its unswerving dedication toward providing the highest level of quality.

Actual Results The incredible &163;550 average discount that most consumers experience is based in part on the experience of 4.51% of customers who saved &163;550 between 1st of July and 31st of December 2010. The discount is calculated by the difference between the customer’s insurance renewal price and the discount offered by BeatThatQuote.com.

Each customer’s quotes are based on his current personal details and the particular make of his car. For this reason, customers can rely on the veracity of the results, as each has been tailored to their specific driving history. Many insurance sites provide general quotes that must be modified at a later date. With QuoteyQuotey.com, customers can be assured that they are seeing the best offers for their personal insurance needs. Have multiple cars It's easy to search for different coverage policies in a short amount of time.

The wide exposure of the site has encouraged many UK insurance providers to become more competitive with their rates. Both consumers and insurers benefit from QuoteyQuotey.com’s comprehensive and detailed listings.

Advertising Opportunities QuoteyQuotey’s ability to instantly find the best rates on all types of financial policies has made the website a highly desirable piece of virtual real estate. The site is pleased to be able to offer affiliate advertising banners and text links for interested advertisers. Those who wish to receive more information should write to affiliates(at)quoteyquotey(dot)com.

The European School of Economics opens the 2011-2012 Enrollment Season for International Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Courses

London, UK 22, 2011 The European School of Economics (ESE), has recently announced the official calendar of 2011-2012 International Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Courses, offered at the ESE Centers in New York, London, Milan, Rome, Florence and Madrid. Most of the 2011-2012 ESE courses will start soon, with few places still available for September 2011.

The European School of Economics is a new concept in higher education, a school without borders combining academic excellence, internationality and freedom in educational choices, with degree and certificate programs that are designed to prepare a new generation of pragmatic leaders and entrepreneurs.Undergraduate and post-graduate Alumni of the European School of Economics are among the most competitive business professionals on the market, prepared for leadership roles in international marketing, finance, communication and management.

ESE students have the freedom to individually tailor their course of study, studying abroad by selecting the ESE International Center of their choice, specializing in cutting-edge business sectors (such as fashion, events, music and sport management, among others) and accessing selected complete internship programs, offered by more than 1,500 leading organizations around the world.

The Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Courses offered by the European School of Economics in its International Campuses include:

*ESE Bachelor’s Degree*

Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration

Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration with Finance

Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration with Marketing

Bachelor’s Degree in Organizational Communication with Media Management

Bachelor's Degree in Global Business with Entrepreneurship

Bachelor's Degree in Global Business with Organizational Leadership

*ESE Master’s Degree*
-&173;Master in Finance
-&173;Master in Management
-&173;Master in Marketing
-&173;MBA Master in Business Administration

*ESE Short Courses*
-&173;Art Management
-&173;Art Management & Consultancy
-&173;Cultural Tourism Management
-&173;Entrepreneurship
-&173;Environmental Economics
-&173;Event Management
-&173;Fashion Management
-&173;Hospitality Management
-&173;Hotel, Travel, Leisure and Tourism
-&173;Human Resources Management
-&173;Human Rights
-&173;Intensive English
-&173;International Finance
-&173;International Management
-&173;International Marketing
-&173;Media Management
-&173;Music Management
-&173;Personal Stylist / Image Consultant
-&173;Sports Management
-&173;Visionary Leadership Program

Follow this link to enroll now for the September 2011 courses at the European School of Economics. More info about European School of Economics and its Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Courses is also available at the ESE website.

*About the European School of Economics*
The European School of Economics (ESE) is a private College of Higher Education in international business, with educational centers in London, New York, Rome, Milan, Florence and Madrid. ESE is a British College of Higher Education and a recognized Educational Institution, accredited by the British Accreditation Council (BAC), with Undergraduate (BSc & BA Hons) and postgraduate (MSc, MBA) programs validated by the University of Buckingham (UK). More info about the European School of Economics is available online at http://www.eselondon.ac.uk.

*ESE Press Office (International)*
Please contact Mr. Nicola Hall for more info and press accreditation
Email: n(dot)hall(at)uniese(dot)it
Tel: +39 02 36504235