Giving financial institutions a new weapon in investigating money laundering, theft, and fraud, Fortent has launched an advanced case management tool to support its financial crime software suite.

Deloitte recently published "Financial Reporting in Hong Kong". This book of over 2,000 pages provides more than just an outline of current accounting standards. It provides clear and practical guidance on the application of those standards in context of the regulatory and economic environment of Hong Kong.

"It's strangely ironic that Washington is telling Americans to go out and spend to help save our troubled economy," said Mark Johannessen, CFP, president of the Financial Planning Association (FPA). "It might help the economy, but it won't help Americans dig out of their own spending debt."

Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis (BPA), andEnterprise Architecture (EA) software for aligning strategy with execution, today announced the availability of a New Account On-Boarding Process Pod for the financial services industry.

Today at the DEMO 08 conference, Voyant, Inc. unveiled Voyant @Home, the first do-it-yourself financial planning solution that puts consumers in direct control of their financial health.

First Financial Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: FFCH) today announced preliminary information regarding earnings results for the quarter ended December 31, 2007, its first quarter of fiscal 2008.

DRI Capital (formerly Drug Royalty Corporation Inc.) has expanded its investment strategy and has launched a Structured Finance Fund with approximately US$300 million. This hybrid debt and equity fund is focused on providing both revenue producing and late stage life sciences and medical device companies financing for a variety of uses.

India Globalization Capital, Inc. (AMEX: IGC.U, IGC.WS, IGC) announced that it conducted a private placement offering of Secured Promissory Notes for an aggregate principal amount of up to $7,275,500. On December 24, 2007 it consummated the initial closing of the Bridge Offering in the total principal amount of $5,300,000.

G2 Resources Inc. (TSXV - "GRT") announces that it has completed a private placement of 1,704,400 Class A shares issued on a flow-through basis at a price of $0.23 per share.

Armistice Resources Corp. (TSX: AZ) is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced private placement. Further to a press release dated November 23, 2007, the terms of the private placement have been changed to an offering of 1,659,342 units of the Corporation at a price of $0.65 per Unit and 2,988,944 flow-through units of the Corporation at a price of $0.75 per FT Unit.

OneMedPlace will hold its first annual Finance Forum January 7-8 in San Francisco at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in Union Square. This event was designed to provide a platform for micro cap public companies and early stage venture backed companies to showcase promising health and medical technologies.

Temex Resources Corp. (TSX Venture Exchange: TME, Frankfurt:TQ1) announces the closing of a non-brokered private placement of 2,352,940 flow-through shares at a price of $0.85 per share, raising gross proceeds of approximately $2,000,000.