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) Student Loan Network Announces Private Student Loan Consolidation Services
The Student Loan Network announces the addition of another student loan consolidation product to its portfolio of Student Loan products in time for the end of many students' grace periods. The Student Loan Network Private Consolidation Loan is designed to help students refinance private alternative, non-federal education-related debt, and rounds out Student Loan Network's consolidation package, which also includes Federal Student Loan Consolidation.. More>>
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) Infogrames head reveals recovery plans
The CEO of French publisher Infogrames, Patrick Leleu, has outlined plans to turn the company's fortunes around.According to an article on French financial site Les Echos, and reported by Thomson Financial, the company will consolidate its shares from 100-to-1, while distribution will be streamlined and operational management optimised.
Additionally Leleu noted that there are "enough funds to begin a development programme," and that Atari, of which it owns 51 per cent, should be able to announce some good news soon.
The latest set of financial results that Infogrames posted revealed that revenues were up, although net debt had increased. The share price rose at the news, although it has since dropped to its lowest point of EUR 0.18.
As of August 1 this year Bluebay Holdings is the largest shareholder of Infogrames with 22.5 per cent, followed by GLG which holds 9.29 per cent and Morgan Stanley with 4.06 per cent. More>>
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) SUNY trustee nominees talk about higher standards
Gov. Eliot Spitzer�s nominees to the State University of New York Board of Trustees are:
�Carl Hayden. Spitzer nominated Hayden to be chairman of the board. He is the former state schools chancellor and Regent who presided over an unprecedented push in the 1990s to improve primary and secondary education.
The Elmira lawyer and former U.S. Naval officer led the Board of Regents at a time it received harsh criticism from school officials, parents, politicians, teachers� unions and others for raising standards and administering tests to track progress.
The former president of the Elmira school board, Hayden graduated from Hamilton College, a private college near Utica, and earned his law degree from Cornell Law School on the G.I. Bill.
�H. Carl McCall. The former state comptroller was the Democratic candidate for governor in 2002. More>>