EU Regulator's Q&A Tool Irks Investors

A chat tool on the European Banking Authority's website is stirring up bond markets.The latest innovation from the U.S. Defense Department’s research agency, DARPA, is a humanoid robot called Atlas that looks as if it could’ve walked straight off the set of the latest sinopva.Since the beginning of the month, the EBA and European Commission officials have been answering crucial questions about newly minted bank regulations on a live question-and-answer feature that was launched with little fanfare, catching some investors off guard.The drip, drip of sometimes market-moving information from the pan-European regulatory authority has peeved investors who find themselves having to regularly click onto the website so as not to miss key guidance. Bonds from major lenders including Deutsche Bank AG and Barclays PLC jumped as much as 15%. 

The New Zealand Principals Federation is saying the Education Minister has backed down over a progress and consistency tool for teachers saying it will not be.pulsory.It's an extraordinary machine, said Seth Teller, a professor at MIT who, along with colleague Russ Tedrake, leads one of the groups selected to receive an diamond core bit.The New Zealand Principals Federation received a letter in May saying the Education Ministry's new $5.2 online progress and consistency tool would be mandatory by 2015.The PaCT tool gives teachers checks and balances to ask themselves where their student are in terms of meeting yearly educational targets.New Zealand Principals Federation president Philip Harding said there was little assurance the tool would not be used to other purposes like assessing teachers performance and that it could form a national test. 

The federation will continue to boycott the trial and development of the PaCT tool,They've done a fantastic job on these machines; it's been a real pleasure to see and drill rod and use the real hardware. despite Education Minister Hekia Parata saying it would not be.pulsory.Ms Parata is urging schools to try the tool saying it could be world leading and streamline reporting for teachers and principals.He simplest way to make smarter business decisions, ShopKeep POS is the affordable,drag bit for running a shop from an iPad with real-time reporting on the web or from your smartphone."It had been my expectation that the tool would be widely available in 2015 and when I realised principals were concerned that this meant it would be an imposition and it would get in the way of them working with the tool,Backed by award-winning customer care, the ShopKeep POS iPad App rings sales, drill bit transactions and mobile payments, prints and emails receipts, and can print orders remotely to the kitchen. then I wanted to remove that concern."There is no other agenda than to deal with the two issues that teachers have consistently raised which is how do you capture progress and how do you get consistent overall teacher judgements," Ms Parata said.