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The complication of concentration in global trade

Mckinsey and Company

Concentration in the origins of traded products is widespread, prompting questions about whether to diversify or decouple. Our Research Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Public & Social Sector Economic Studies Strategy Operations Risk Management

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Customer Concentration

CFO Simplified

Customer concentration had become an ever-bigger problem as borrowing increased. Significant Findings and Recommendations: Reduce Customer Concentration. Many companies view 20% of your total sales as a limit on customer concentration.

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Hindustan Copper relies on concentrate to boost margins as cathode costs high

CFO News Room

HCL’s copper concentrate has a huge demand as it has very less proportion of elements like arsenic, antimony, bismuth, lead, mercury and other deleterious elements.

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Groupon To Stop Merchandise Sales And Concentrate On Experiences

PYMNTS

The firm plans to move from its current deal-focused approach to concentrate on local experiences, such as local painting classes or wine-tasting dinners, as The Wall Street Journal reported. As it faces a competitive retail market, Groupon Inc.

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Mexican Regulator Says Credit, Debit Processing Too Highly Concentrated

PYMNTS

According to Mexican regulators, the two companies in charge of the country's credit and debit settlements represent "a near monopoly," and big businesses need to sell shares in those companies, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

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MSMEs on accelerated growth trajectory, lending concentrates in industrial states: Report

CFO News

The measures on formalization of MSMEs and adoption of digital platforms by lenders has enabled them to access granular data on enterprises and improved their confidence for lending, especially to the micro1 segment of MSMEs, informs the report. Here are the details

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China's Central Bank Tells Ant Group To Concentrate On Payments Business

PYMNTS

Financial regulators in China are moving to curb the influence of Jack Ma 's Ant Group by telling it to switch focus back to its mainstay payments business while fixing issues in personal lending, wealth management and more, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports.

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Concentration Risk on the Buy-Side of Credit Markets: The Causes

CFA Institute

What are the effects of buy-side concentration on the structure of the corporate bond market? Economics Fixed Income Risk Management Standards, Ethics & Regulations (SER) bonds central banks ETFs fixed income Investment Products and Asset Classes Monetary Policy Quantitative Easing

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Today In Digital-First Banking: China’s Central Bank Tells Ant Group To Concentrate On Payments; China’s Digital Yuan Pilot Wraps Up

PYMNTS

China's Central Bank Tells Ant Group To Concentrate On Payments Business. In today’s top news in digital-first banking, financial regulators in China are moving to check the influence of Jack Ma’s Ant Group, while the second pilot of a digital yuan by the People’s Bank of China has concluded.

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In Asia Pacific, Cash Usage Swell With Growth of ATMs

PYMNTS

Cash Asia Pacific ATM concentration ATM Usage Cardtronics cash is king cash payments Cash Usage China Cash Usage India Cash versus digital payments Financial Inclusion Asia Pacific Global Cash Index News Payment Methods paymentsIn the Asia-Pacific, cash is fighting tooth and nail with emerging digital payment methods and is seemingly winning the race. The region is now home to more than half of ATMs worldwide, which is helping drive use of cash, according to RBR’s latest forecast.

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ESMA outlines its approach to reporting on systemic impacts of clearing

PWC UK

ESMA will identify any difference in basis available between TC and EU CCPs, and model any concentration add-ons. by Brian Polk Director. Email +44 (0)7711 898535. More articles by Brian.

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Hindustan Copper draws up Rs 5,500-crore plan to expand its ore capacity

CFO News Room

HCL uses ore primarily to produce metal concentrate. Of late, its focus has shifted to selling copper concentrate directly to refiners. Sterlite and Birla Copper use concentrate to produce refined copper.

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Employee Spotlight: Meet AJ Olpin

FISPAN

AJ holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems with a concentration in Systems and Networking, as well as a minor in Economics. In this month’s Employee Spotlight, we’d like you to meet FISPAN’s Manager, Infrastructure and Data Services, AJ Olpin !

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Uncertainty Is All Around

Fpanda Club

Analysts should look for concentrations of revenue and high dependencies in operations in all this variety of factors to identify vulnerabilities of the firm. FP&A teams do not have a crystal ball… Yet, they have to answer management’s questions about the future every day.

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CFOs: What’s your plan to mitigate risks of bank failures?

Future CFO

Source: Gartner (March 2023) Despite government assurances that uninsured deposits will remain accessible, there is a sense of uncertainty among some CFOs about how the crisis will evolve, and there is a new focus on concentration risk for CFOs and their boards.

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Abandoning Surge Meetings To Better Meet Client Needs And Promote Advisor Well-Being

Nerd's Eye View

One of the most important parts of a financial advisor’s value proposition is time spent meeting with their clients. These meetings allow advisors to listen to their clients’ concerns, make planning recommendations, and chart a course for the coming months.

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Bad Explanations for Inflation | AIER

CFO News Room

Proponents of market-power explanations for inflation point to increased concentration in several industries over the last two years. . Assume for the sake of argument that industry concentration has increased. First, the link between concentration and market power is weak.

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What To Do if a Bank Tightens Up Your Advance Rates

CFO Simplified

With regard to accounts receivable, one thing banks are always concerned about is customer concentration. If you have a heavy customer concentration with one, two, or even five customers, they may tighten up your advance rate because they feel that there are too many eggs in one basket.

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Matthew Aubrey, Co-Founder, Homethings

Generation CFO

Homethings answer was to produce a tablet made up entirely of eco-friendly cleaning chemicals and sell it to consumers in a concentrated, dehydrated form. The average cleaning spray is made up of 90% water and just 10% – or even 5 – of cleaning chemicals.

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China: House Divided | AIER

CFO News Room

I have come to think of it in terms of concentric circles, each smaller than, and fully contained in, the larger category. Capitalism, however, also creates concentrations of economic power because of the ability of successful investors and entrepreneurs to gather large amounts of wealth.

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White House Sees Hearing Aids as Chance to Lower Prices Through More Competition

CFO News Room

At present, just four manufacturers control 84% of the hearing-aid market, according to the Open Markets Institute, a think tank critical of corporate concentration. Has corporate concentration raised prices for you? Getting a pair of hearing aids can cost up to $5,000.

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Passive vs. Active

Barry Ritholtz

Concentrated portfolio risk. Yesterday I spent some time with Eric Balchunas recording a Masters in Business podcast.

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Is Private Debt Worth Considering As An (Alternative) Asset Class In Client Portfolios?

Nerd's Eye View

by making concentrated bets or through a more diversified approach).

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The Inflation Reduction Act Won’t Reduce Inflation

CFO News Room

But because the deficit reduction is concentrated at the end of a 10-year period, only about a tenth of this reduction, 0.12% of GDP, would materialize in the next year. Senate Democrats’ latest party-line attempt to push their social agenda through Congress lifts Orwellian naming conventions to new heights. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022? They might as well add “World Peace” and “Global Democracy,” since the bill has roughly the same odds of achieving those ends.

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Use of On-Demand Execs is a Growing Trend | Indianapolis Business Journal

Focus CFO

FocusCFO is primarily concentrated on fractional financial executives, though it also supplies CFOs as project consultants and project consultants and interim executives. Use of On-Demand Execs Becomes a Growing Trend. Indianapolis Business Journal.

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FTC Reports Over 18K Fraud Cases Linked To Coronavirus

PYMNTS

The highest concentrations are in the larger, more populated states such as California, which has over 50,000 reports; Florida, with around 41,000; and Texas, which has 36,000 reports.

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James Owen, Global Chief Financial Officer, Profiles Division, Kantar

Generation CFO

With the argument centring around that we can’t concentrate, we don’t knuckle down and stick something out through tougher times. . Successful businesses need a culture of making it happen, says James Owen, Kantar’s Profiles division Global CFO.

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How to avoid video meeting fatique

Future CFO

According to experts, chatting online requires more concentration than meeting face-to-face while poor quality video can make it tricky to read facial expressions. Are you finding video meeting exhausting in lockdown? The post How to avoid video meeting fatique appeared first on FutureCFO. Business Insights Resources Strategies and Tactics Videos/Tutorials coronavirus online meetings video calls World Economic Forum

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1619 Project: A Flawed Interpretation With a Hidden Agenda (Video)

CFO News Room

History of Political Economy (Spring 2020) “ Detecting Historical Inequality Patterns: A Replication of Thomas Piketty’s Wealth Concentration Estimates for the United Kingdom.” Phillip W. Magness is Senior Research Faculty and Director of Research and Education at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is also a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He holds a PhD and MPP from George Mason University’s School of Public Policy, and a BA from the University of St.

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#FA Success Ep 298: Navigating The Evolution From Broker-Dealer To RIA Platform Leadership, With Carolyn Armitage

Nerd's Eye View

Welcome back to the 298th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Carolyn Armitage. Carolyn is the President of Thrivent Advisor Network, an RIA platform that offers partnership and affiliate models for financial advisors and oversees $6.5

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Fed Says Unemployment Rate Tops 20 Pct For Low-Income Workers

PYMNTS

She said that the pandemic's worst effects had concentrated around the “already challenged groups,” with Black and Latino unemployment sitting at 9.9 The pandemic is making disparities worse in the country’s economy, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said in a Wednesday (Jan.

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Tales from the Dark Side

Barry Ritholtz

Say what you will about Cathy Woods and ARKK, but a concentrated portfolio like hers makes more sense as a satellite to Vanguard’s Total Stock Market Index ETF (VTI) or the S&P 500 (SPY) versus this unholy mess of high-cost high turnover SMA.

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Facebook Fact-Checks Recession Analysis | Phillip Magness on Fox…

CFO News Room

Detecting Historical Inequality Patterns: A Replication of Thomas Piketty’s Wealth Concentration Estimates for the United Kingdom.” Phillip W. Magness is Senior Research Faculty and Research and Education Director at the American Institute for Economic Research.

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“Look for the Helpers”: Corsi-Rosenthal Box Round-Up

CFO News Room

A bonus: From Environmental Science and Technology, “ Does Using Corsi–Rosenthal Boxes to Mitigate COVID-19 Transmission Also Reduce Indoor Air Concentrations of PFAS and Phthalates ?” By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I rarely write a feel-good story; this will be one.

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François Masquelier (Simply Treasury): Small is Beautiful

Simply Treasury

But in the past, IT vendors were concentrating on heavy weights only (for profitability/return reasons).

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