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Bank of South Pacific Financial Group Limited has announced the appointment of Mark T. Robinson as Group Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Robinson is a senior financial services executive and globally experienced banking Chief Executive Officer with more than 30 years of experience across developed, developing, and emerging markets.   BSP Financial Group Chairman, Sir Kostas Constantinou said Mr. Robinson had invaluable expertise across global emerging markets in wholesale, retail, and investment banking and was the ideal person to lead the bank in its next phase of growth.  Mr. Robinson’s appointment follows a rigorous and competitive global executive search, led by Ashurst Board Advisory, which considered highly credentialled candidates globally, and across the Pacific region. In a statement, Sir Kostas said Mr. Robinson impressed the Board with his history of developing and executing strategic plans incorporating high-quality revenue growth across many geographies, including operating i...

Readers, please join me welcoming Vincent Zandri, author of Moonlight Falls who’s guest blogging here today! Moonlight Falls is the Albany, New York-based paranoid tale (in the Hitchcock tradition) of former APD Detective turned Private Investigator/Massage Therapist, Richard “Dick” Moonlight, who believes he might be responsible for the brutal slaying by knife of his illicit lover, the beautiful Scarlet Montana. The situation is made all the worse since Scarlet is the wife of Moonlight’s boss, Chief of Detectives Jake Montana. Biting the Nail: The Discipline of Writing By Vincent Zandri “Where do you get your discipline?” That’s the question I’m asked most frequently about my solitary writing life. Most people who work according the programmed schedule of job and career find it inconceivable that a person can actually roll out of bed, face a blank page, and begin to make words. Yet, as writers, that’s what we do. We create and in order to create we have to have discipline. Disc...