The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration announced today that it has named Marcie Frost as the Pension Fund's new chief executive officer (CEO).

Frost, 51, is a 16-year veteran of the pension industry, having most recently served as the director of the Washington State Department of Retirement Systems (DRS). She will start her new role with CalPERS on October 3, 2016, replacing Anne Stausboll who retired at the end of June. Doug Hoffner will serve as interim CEO.

CareCredit, a leading provider of promotional healthcare financing, today announced the expansion of an existing relationship to a multi-year agreement with Vision Group Holdings, which oversees and manages two of the leading LASIK surgery providers: The LASIK Vision Institute (LVI) and TLC Laser Eye Centers.

This is a common-sense ruling overriding the lower courts mistaken judgement that the USA court system had supremacy over all other countries sovereignty and judicial systems.    The effect internationally had this ruling been upheld would have been a massive chilling of relations with American businesses across the globe and the American Judiciary would have been lining itself up for a significant fight with the European Union over data privacy laws.

Sitecore and Microsoft announced that the two companies plan to expand their long-standing strategic alliance to enrich Sitecore's Microsoft Azure cloud offerings over the next two years. Under the expanded partnership, customers will be able to take advantage of the speed and scale of Azure's powerful cloud platform to achieve greater digital transformation at a much faster pace.

Canadian Union of Postal Workers say there are issues on the table, including bringing back postal banking, an idea which has just been rejected by the big bank lobby.

"We're not surprised that the big banks, which raked in a $35 billion profit last year by gouging Canadians with some of the highest fees in the world, would oppose a public banking option," said Mike Palecek, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.

Kinaxis, provider of RapidResponse®, delivering cloud-based SCM and S&OP applications, has been named a 'Great Supply Chain Part

Built on Microsoft Azure Services and Self-learning Algorithms, new Offering is Designed for Flexible, Data-driven Decision Making.

Mindtree has launched Decision Moments, the first data analytics platform that applies continuous learning algorithms to large data pools, allowing businesses to generate meaningful and compelling insights that improve over time.

Various business users, such as sales, marketing and human resources, need to make sense of the large amounts of business data from multiple sources and help make better, more informed decisions.

Global warming adds significant new risks for the world's banks, insurers and pension funds, warns a study published by the Global Risk Institute.

"Given the financial service industry's heavily integrated role in society, it is particularly susceptible to the risks associated with climate change," the study notes. "It must therefore ensure that proper climate change strategies and risk management procedures are in place in order to remain viable."