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Facebook Q2 Earnings Preview: Ad Sales, Libra To Affect Growth

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Experts predict a muted growth report , and advise looking closely at the ramifications of Libra and its growth in advertising sales over the quarter, which is threatened by Amazon’s expansion in the industry. For those who missed it, PYMNTS published a recap of Libra’s week in Washington.).

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Bitcoin’s Resplendent Week

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Governments the world over are struggling with bitcoin and blockchain; regulatory frameworks for conventional financial systems are not applicable to digital currencies. It’s not clear why bitcoin is so popular, but in August, a local food truck selling vegetarian, Vietnamese and French food advertised that it was accepting bitcoin.

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New(ish) Ideas Edition: Google, JPMorgan Chase And Samsung

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The phone did net a fair amount of praise — particularly for its screen display, which many reviewers noted is, as advertised, capable of actually being a screen display for the Daydream View VR headset. Whereas “it looks a lot like an iPhone” was the Pixel’s most common review. megapixel camera.

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China Is Picking Up Oversight Of Banking

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China has long mentioned its intention to expand regulations on the banking system, but in recent months it has been making moves. The government recently introduced measures aimed at controlling more risk and leverage in China’s financial system, looking closely at shadow banking, lending procedures and other finance practices.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

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You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. So the idea being, you know, that we could analyze, dissect companies anywhere from, you know, senior securities, secured down to distressed. ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: So you’ve been with BlackRock since the financial crisis. RITHOLTZ: Is that how you ran R3?

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Bitcoin: 10 Years Of Smoke And Mirrors

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Yet, what’s amazing to me is that we are still, as an industry, talking about it — bitcoin, now crypto, blockchain — as if its potential to revolutionize our global financial system, and the way money moves between parties around the world, is just around the corner. But as the salvation of our global financial system, not even close.

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10 Best FP&A Software Tools: A Comprehensive Buyer’s Guide [2023]

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Our guide to the best FP&A tools compares each vendor based on five criteria: Adoption — How easy it is for users to adopt the technology and learn and leverage its full extent of features and capabilities. Because it’s from the same vendor, Adaptive works best with Workday Financial Management and Human Capital Management.