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The investment by Warren Buffett in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in September 2008 was so confidential that even his chief financial officer was unaware of it

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FORMER ULSTER Bank chief executive Cormac McCarthy will take over as chief financial officer of listed bookmaker Paddy Power this year.

TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington sat down with Sequoia Capital partner Roelof Botha in another fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012 this morning. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2003, Botha served as the Chief Financial Officer of PayPal during its sale to eBay, and today considers himself a champion of consumer web plays. He also sits on the board of hot startups like Eventbrite, S...

Apple Inc’s chief financial officer is asking the residents of Cupertino, California, to support the company’s new 2.8 million square foot spaceship-like campus, which critics say would increase traffic and pressure city services.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's chief financial officer is asking the residents of Cupertino, California, to support the company's new 2.8 million square foot spaceship-like campus, which critics say would increase traffic and pressure city services.

Computer chip wafer producer MEMC Electoronic Materials (WFR) this afternoon said its chief financial officer, Mark Murphy, resigned, effective immediately, to go to specialty gas supplier Praxair, as head of a division. Murphy will be replaced by Brian Wuebbels, an MEMC exec since 2007, who has been running its line of “Balance of System” products. [...]

Just half of shareholders at the media group backed the 2012 pay report, with particular anger directed at the chief financial officer

Gene Morphis, the chief financial officer for Francesca's Holding Corps., a clothing company based in Houston, Texas, was fired for 'improperly' communicating through social networks.

DETROIT -- Mayor Dave Bing on Thursday appointed Jack Martin the new chief financial officer for Detroit, a position required by the city's financial stability agreement with the state of Michigan. That landmark agreement, designed by a financial review team with input from the mayor, the Detroit City Council, the state treasurer and the governor's office, created the CFO job, as well as severa...

AMP chiefs unleashed a stinging criticism of the government and its chief financial regulator yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Thomas Cook is set to announce the departure of its chief financial officer this week, dealing another blow to the world's oldest travel group, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

Oil and gas exploration firm Providence Resources has appointed Simon Brett as its chief financial officer.

Aerospace and defence manufacturer Cobham is to undergo a complete overhaul of senior management after its chief financial officer revealed he is to leave.

April 25 (Reuters) - Business development company Kohlberg Capital Corp said its Chief Financial Officer Michael Wirth has received a Wells Notice from U.S. regulators related to the restatement of...

A severe cash crisis is hampering the Special Investigating Unit (SIU)'s capacity to probe corruption, acting chief financial officer Garth Elliot said on Friday.

Rep. Connie Mack IV, who's seeking the GOP Senate nomination in Florida, has had a rough run in the press recently, culminating in this Tampa Bay Times piece Tuesday. You can tell from the lede that it's going to leave a bruise: With an iconic name and access to Washington cash, U.S. Rep. Connie Mack looked like the great Republican hope when he entered Florida's U.S. Senate race and posed a...

Chinese B2C e-commerce website Dangdang.com announced that its chief financial officer Conor Chia-huang Yang has resigned due to personal reasons. However, Yang will still work for the company during a three-month transitional period, and Dangdang.com will soon start looking for a new CFO. Yang joined Dangdang.com in March 2010 and he led the company's IPO [...]

(Reuters) - J.C. Penney Co Inc said on Wednesday that Michael Dastugue is leaving on Friday after just 15 months as chief financial officer as the department store chain continues to work on its overhaul under its new chief executive.

The agency charged former Chief Executive Anthony Nocella and former Chief Financial Officer J. Russell McCann of Franklin Bank Corp.

FORMER Westfield Group chief financial officer (CFO) Marlon Teperson has joined shopping centre owner Centro Retail Australia.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - NYSE Euronext plans to achieve $250 million in annual savings by 2014 through company-wide cost cuts and synergies, the exchange operator's chief financial officer said on Monday.

Struggling White House hopeful Newt Gingrich is "at the end of his line" since it is mathematically impossible for him to win the Republican nomination, his chief financial backer said on Thursday.

Christine Serwinski, MF Global's North American chief financial officer, is expected to tell a House panel that an internal report showed "a substantial deficit" in the amount of firm money used to protect customer accounts.

An eBay executive was struck and killed by a commuter train in California Friday. Eric Salvatierra, 39, who served as vice president of customer…

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Contrary to today’s headlines, Wells Fargo is not closing branches as it contemplates achieving about $1.5 billion in cost savings per quarter by the end of the year, a spokesman for the company tells Barrons.com. Shares of Wells Fargo(WFC) are up 1.3%, or 40 cents, to $30.49. Wells Fargo spokesman Ancel Martinez says that a [...]

DISTRICT MAYOR Vincent C. Gray’s letter last week questioning the revenue projections of the city’s chief financial officer wasn’t intended, in the words of his spokesman, to be a “big deal,” but rather simply a request for more information. That’s reassuring, because the last thing the District needs is for this critical office to become a target of ill-advised political pressure. Read full a...

Chief financial officers in Asia consider the possibility of an economic slowdown in China to be the third most concerning issue in the world, according to a recent report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

FORTUNE -- Shortly after helped to close the $46 billion deal that turned Roche Holdings into the full owner of Genentech in 2009, David Ebersman, who was chief financial officer of the biotechnology giant and something of a protégé to Chairman Art Levinson, started fielding recruiting calls from some of America's biggest companies.

Ivan Dittrich is due to take up his new position as chief financial officer and group executive director of Vodacom in July.

(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's ESPN cable network will recognize some affiliate revenue earlier in the year as a result of a new agreement with Comcast Corp, Chief Financial Officer Jay Rasulo said on Thursday. About $70 million to $80 million will be moved forward in each of the fiscal first and second quarters, or about 2 cents per share of earnings, Rasulo said at the Citigroup Global Entertai...

Internet giant fired CEO Carol Bartz in September and has struggled to compete with rivals Facebook and GoogleYahoo has tapped PayPal boss Scott Thompson as its new CEO, effective January 9, the troubled internet giant has announced.Yahoo fired Carol Bartz, its last chief executive, in September and has been undergoing a strategic review as the business has struggled to compete with Google and ...

J.P. Morgan Chase will continue expanding and investing in its consumer-banking business, the unit's heads affirmed in a memo that named David Owen as chief financial officer for the consumer bank.

The chief financial officer's responsibility has become more complex. He no longer just crunches number but also leads the company on various fronts

Rugby:Martyn Thomas has left the Rugby Football Union with immediate effect after the threat of a misconduct charge was lifted. Thomas was due to leave Twickenham on December 16th and has been replaced in the role of acting chief executive by Stephen Brown, the RFU’s chief financial officer.

As Italy’s borrowing costs spiked and its government neared collapse last week, the European Central Bank reacted in an unusual way for an organization serving as the euro region’s chief financial fire brigade. It slowed its purchases of government bonds, a step that likely contributed to the jump in Italy’s interest rates above the 7 percent threshold and arguably hastened Prime Minister Silv...

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Concerns that it might be illegal to let private investors recover their money before taxpayers if Solyndra went bankrupt were more widespread within the Obama administration than previously known, documents released on Friday show. As Energy Department officials moved toward restructuring a half-billion dollar loan to Solyndra in February, the chief financial officer at the Treasury Department...