The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued a notice that excludes the CFO from the group of executive officers who are considered covered employees under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Wyndham Worldwide Corp. named Christopher Feeney senior vice president and treasurer of the $3.8 billion hospitality company with headquarters in Parsippany, N.J. Feeney joins Wyndham after serving as senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions for Sunrise Senior Living Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Lehman Brothers Inc. tied for first place for the quality of their U.S. fixed-income investment services in a new Greenwich Associates survey of 1,300 institutional investors.

Capgemini, a European technology consulting and outsourcing services firm, is expanding its business process outsourcing (BPO) portfolio and its operations to pursue opportunities in North America.

Consulting group Financial Insights predicts that 2007 will be the year health savings accounts (HSAs) take off.

EquaTerra, an outsourcing consulting firm, which is based in Houston and London, has introduced Governance Healthcheck, a service designed to enable outsourcing buyers and their service providers to identify and fix governance problems.

While companies have been busy closing, freezing or even terminating defined benefit (DB) plans for employees, there is one group that still seems to have a guaranteed retirement package awaiting them: CEOs at Standard & Poor's 500 companies.

While business intelligence (BI) providers have carefully been testing the premise that structured and unstructured information collection and analytics should be merged, none have taken the plunge--until now.