You’re probably aware of the basic trends. The financial rewards to education have increased over the past few decades, but men failed to get the memo...article

Benazir Bhutto formed the First Women Bank to be a financially sustainable bank with a specialized focus on promoting economic prosperity and self-reliance in women of urban and rural areas by:

• Transforming the status of women from passive beneficiaries of social services to dynamic agents of change
• Promoting asset ownership, through its unique credit policies
• Promoting entrepreneurs through Computer Literacy and Business Centers for skill enhancement, product development and business management
• Facilitating their access to financial services by providing support through its Financial Services Desk on Corporate Affairs, Credit Management and Trade Finance activities and advice on Legal, Taxation and Marketing issues
• Providing extensive banking training through FWBL’s Training Institute and collaboration with other Banking Institutes of repute  Video

…..”There is now not even a single woman sitting on the main board of what is one of the most powerful and essential institutions in the EU,” Bowles said in a statement. “The symbolic and practical effects of this absence are not without note.”..article

ECB

(Reuters) – The European Central Bank agreed on Thursday to launch a new and potentially unlimited bond-buying program to lower struggling euro zone countries’ borrowing costs and draw a line under the debt crisis..article

Webcast of the press conference 6 September 2012

Video stream (Flash video)

Press conference following the meeting of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank on 6 September 2012 at its premises in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, starting at 2:30 p.m. CET:

• Introductory statement by Mario Draghi, President of the ECB.
• Question and answer session. Registered journalists pose questions to Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, and to Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB.

For women heading toward retirement, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is they’re likely to be blessed with long life. The bad news: They may not be able to afford it…article

Here’s How Your Husband Will Try To Hide Assets

The New York Times is the least reliable of the important news media. Take with a grain of salt this detailed article on American banks loading up truckloads of money for American companies operating in Greece in case the euro goes.  Article

….Women are gaining financial independence to an unprecedented degree — they now make up the majority of college graduates, are nearly half of the labor force and are becoming the primary earners in many households. Yet most remain uneasy or uninvolved when it comes to talking about and managing money….article

In conjunction with MIT Arab entrepreneurs are having their own spring.  Article

Nadine Abou-Elias writes about joining Seeqnce.