A workshop designed to improve the effectiveness of your communication to others.

Everywoman is hosting an event in partnership with Business Link East, designed to offer women the skills to appear confident and credible in personal and business situations.

The rise of Gen X is changing the focus from the Old Guard to CIO’s and tech. Join a lively discussion about this changing landscape and how you can be effected.

Investment Week believes this is an ideal time to invite key players from the US fund arena to take part in a special “Focus on Investing in US Equity Funds” conference that will inform and further educate leading discretionaries and advisers about the subject – in the process crystallising themselves as market leaders in this field and maintaining awareness of their brands.

The event is geared to women in their ultimate or penultimate year of study interested in a career in Operations, Finance, Business Management and Technology. This is an opportunity for networking and informal discussion around careers at JPMorgan. Places are limited.

In addition to the widely shared challenges of finding and keeping mentors, the program also will address mentoring issues unique to women and lawyers of color. Going beyond the basics of self-marketing, this program will illustrate appropriate methods for gaining positive recognition from senior associates, partners, and clients.

Womenintechnology is excited to offer you this full-day workshop that provides the tools to help you create visibility for yourself.

The Worth Collection invites FWA members to an evening of shopping and networking.

Saving Second Base, an organization of young professionals committed to raising money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure affiliated organizations, will be holding a Fashion and Finance Party on Thursday, February 7 at Tailor (525 Broome Street) beginning at 7:00 p.m. The event, which will celebrate Fashion Week and bring together those from the communities of fashion and finance, is hosted by Gossip Girl Abigail Lorick, Urbanista.com, and eFinancialCareers the online marketplace for financial jobs.

The news about a massive securities fraud by a rogue trader at France’s second largest bank, Société Générale, just keeps getting worse. The Financial Times reported on Tuesday that the bank didn’t lose the $4.9 billion euros that it first reported, but will actually report losses of over $6 billion euros after unwinding the unhedged bets by the rogue trader, Jérôme Kerviel. In what may be one of the great understatements of the year, CEO Daniel Bouton stated that the internal audit system of the bank’s risk management is insufficient to prevent this type of fraud.

President Sarkozy of France, who has been in the papers more than Britney Spears lately on affairs both private and public, has made it clear that he wants heads to roll. But who should ultimately be accountable for the biggest scandal to hit the financial markets since the downfall of Barings bank in 1995? There seems to be three upfront players in this blame game and all three seem to have played a little fast and loose with the numbers.

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