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White Paper What's the return on treasury? A large alternative investment manager obtained a partial answer while examining its cash management practices, including overnight investing. A few simple changes to its operating... [13 Nov 2009]
Financial Services Regulatory Highlights
White Paper Past June, the Department of Treasury released a White Paper on Financial Regulatory Reform calling on the SEC and CFTC to make recommendations to Congress for changes to statutes and regulations that would harmonize... [13 Nov 2009]
IT tsar confirmed: Cabinet Office names Angela Smith
News Previously, Smith was parliamentary private secretary to Yvette Cooper at Communities and Local Government and the Treasury. The Cabinet Office has named Angela Smith as responsible for government IT and information... [16 Oct 2009]
HM Treasury strikes five-year IT services deal
News HM Treasury has struck a five-year deal with Fujitsu to provide a range of IT services. It will also deliver a secure remote-working programme for Treasury workers to help improve productivity.... [25 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up This week Timms said: "The levy on telephone lines - 50p a month… will be in the finance bill which I'm also responsible for at the Treasury and my aim is that we should legislate for that this side of the general election. [25 Sep 2009]
Digital Britain fibre tax 'to be law before next general election'
News Stephen Timms, Minister for Digital Britain and financial secretary to the Treasury, said the government is committed to making its £6 per year tax on landlines law to pay for rolling out next-gen broadband in the UK. [23 Sep 2009]
Digital Britain: Treasury's Timms set to be next broadband ambassador?
News Timms, currently financial secretary to the Treasury, will replace Stephen Carter as communications minister, the newspaper said on Monday. According to the report, Timms will work across the Department for Business,... [04 Aug 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Central government departments are already considering the offshoring of IT under the Operational Efficiency Programme, the Treasury's drive to cut £7.2bn off central government's annual IT and back office costs, while a... [03 Aug 2009]
Tesoreria General de la Republica de Chile Uses Scalable Platform to Create a Tax Payment Web Site
White Paper Treasury Department wanted to replace obsolete systems with a scalable platform to improve and automate the extraction and administration of data related to handling public funds and creates a robust database to provide... [30 Jul 2009]
Was £26bn IT savings claim sexed up?
News It inspired a subsequent cost cutting drive across government, overseen by the Treasury, which last year claimed to have saved £26.5bn as a result. The figure's accuracy was called into question by the... [29 Jul 2009]
£24.4m written off on government IT project
News The £24.4m write-off on the Scope programme - a secure electronic comms network aimed at improving information sharing across 10 government departments and security and intelligence agencies - was approved by the... [17 Jul 2009]
ID cards U-turn: No compulsory cards for pilots
News The funds will come from the Treasury. The government has announced it will drop plans to make ID cards compulsory for airside workers. Pilots and other airside workers will not be forced to apply for or carry the cards,... [01 Jul 2009]
Is it 999 for emergency services comms?
News Spectrum] is very valuable stuff… so we have to put a very compelling case to the Treasury to make further spectrum available to support the emergency services and the public sector. "Emergency services are not delivered... [15 Jun 2009]
Police IT: 'Lots of money is being wasted'
News Lambert also cited the findings of the Treasury's Operational Efficiency Programme, which revealed that savings of up to £7.2bn a year could be made by sharing back office services and IT across the public sector. [03 Jun 2009]
TARP - The Road to Recovery
White Paper The Act authorized the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) that would enable the Treasury to purchase (and/or insure) assets (and/or equity) from banks and financial institutions up to USD 700 billion. [30 May 2009]
