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Kitces & Carl Ep 100: Is Advisor Technology Really About Making Planning Faster… Or Better?

Nerd's Eye View

As a starting point, it’s important to recognize that while conversations in the financial services industry over the last decade have entertained the idea that technology (e.g., robo-advisors) might someday replace human advisors, there are still many elements of financial planning that benefit from engagement with a human advisor.

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5 steps to develop a business partner mindset

Jedox Finance

But you do need to be conscious about how to leverage your strengths and not get beaten by your weaknesses. Since business partnering is largely about influencing decisions through building strong relationships and being a standout communicator, it is often thought of as something for extroverts only. Let’s explore this further.

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Deep Dive: How Businesses Are Redesigning Payments To Survive The Pandemic

PYMNTS

The COVID-19 pandemic has sent the entertainment, fitness and restaurant sectors scrambling to adapt their revenue models and maintain customer loyalty during lockdowns. Entertainment Sales Target Consumers at Home, in Their Cars and in the Future. The entertainment industry is also pivoting its business model as movie theaters close.

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Leading the Way: 5 Tips for January’s New CFOs

The Finance Weekly

Jessica Holscott | Authentic Brands , Jessica Holscott has been appointed as the new CFO of Authentic Brands, a brand development, marketing, and entertainment platform. He has also held financial leadership roles at Nuance Communications, Wyless, and Mimecast. Holscott previously served as CFO at Warner Media.

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Toys Spark Retail Changes As Holidays Approach

PYMNTS

The company takes published scientific research on what skills a child in a given age range is trying to learn at that time across many different areas such as problem-solving, communication, creativity and social-emotional learning. In an all-cash deal, Hasbro will purchase Entertainment One for 3.27 Toy Brands. That’s not all.

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Amazon Tracker: Chime In

PYMNTS

The past few weeks have seen a new enterprise addition to AWS, the announcement of a new communications feature and some telling stats on the growth of the retail giant’s payments endeavor. Entertainment and ticketing company Live Nation selected AWS as its public cloud infrastructure provider.

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Philadelphia Mall Owner Takes Care Of Its Own

PYMNTS

We are relatively lean, so we are a close-knit team that communicates well. The key is to leverage our partnership as landlord to our tenants is to maximize everyone’s success. “We have strived to stay ahead of the curve on consumer trends, particularly relating to tenanting,” Coradino said. “We

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