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Super Apps Rising: Mobile Drives Digital Payments Uptick In Pakistan

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In Pakistan, and elsewhere, the stars are aligning for greater use of digital banking and payments to improve financial inclusion. Regulators are also getting on board with letting NFIs offer financial products in emerging economies, broadening the financial services ecosystem, said Wain. To that end, Amir Wain , CEO of i2c Inc.

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Data Dive, Better Together Edition: Worldpay, FIS, Google, eBay, PayPal, Instagram

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Once closed, the conjoined firm will offer enterprise banking, payments, capital markets and global eCommerce services to financial institutions and businesses around the world. Once the deal is closed, the new 12-member board will have seven members coming from FIS and five from Worldpay.

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Frightful Five: Apple Speaker Delayed While Alexa, Google Assistant Charge Ahead

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Appleā€™s big selling point for the HomePod was its superior auditory quality, which was supposed to justify the $349 price tag. Nordea is the first Nordic bank service to integrate with Messenger. The tech company has also recently added four new members to the Microsoft board: LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, former U.S.

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

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The overriding message in all of this data is that Russia/Ukraine war has unleashed fears in the bond market, and once unleashed that fear has pushed up worries about default and default risk premia across the board. Equity Markets and Equity Risk Premiums. I have seen no evidence, so far, that this is the case, but that may change.

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

Musings on Markets

The overriding message in all of this data is that Russia/Ukraine war has unleashed fears in the bond market, and once unleashed that fear has pushed up worries about default and default risk premia across the board. I have seen no evidence, so far, that this is the case, but that may change.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

Barry Ritholtz

JOHNSON: And then I moved into, we had a bank at the time, and I moved into running part of the bank. RITHOLTZ: So Franklin obviously divests out of the banking business, the credit card business, the auto financing business. The requirements for asset managers to have a bank were such that it would inhibit us a bit.

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The Difference Makers: Key Person(s) Valuation

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While that effect tends to fade as businesses get larger, the tumult at Open AI, where the board dismissed Sam Altman as CEO, and then faced with an enterprise-wide meltdown, as capital providers and employees threatened to quit, illustrates that even at larger entities, a person or a few people can make a value difference.

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