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OCTOBER 1, 2022

A professional accounting service will work with a business closely to ensure that it is not losing money, and to make certain that the best possible financial decisions are being made. Small business owners can avoid the hefty price tag and time commitment of installing sophisticated programs on their own.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Intuit closed a deal to buy Credit Karma for a price tag of $7.1 Consolidation of this kind has been sweeping the financial technology sector as of late, with Intuit’s deal just the latest example. The deal lays bare the growing need for financial services groups to accumulate data. And this year already, Visa paid $5.3

Startups 60

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DECEMBER 29, 2019

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara and French President Emmanuel Macron said earlier in December that the UEMOA would sever several financial ties with Paris. Ghana said in October that it was planning to eliminate paper from most services and transactions by next year, as it aims to become Africa’s most digitalized economy.

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MAY 28, 2020

Google’s security experts had their hands full in April, as its Threat Analysis Group (TAG) emailed 1,755 warnings to users whose accounts were targets of hacking and phishing attempts by cybercriminals. Fueled by COVID-19, giant tech companies are seeking deals at their fastest pace in years, despite an increase in scrutiny by regulators.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Barely more than a year after banking giant JPMorgan launched an effort to bring younger clients into the fold — through digital means and specifically through a digital banking app — the firm is killing that particular nationwide project. The pilot program began in October 2017 and a nationwide rollout began in June of last year.

Banking 56

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In the name of closing that gap, Visa headed into its third season of tech partnership with New York Fashion Week — this year, with a special focus on female entrepreneurs. “We Leveraging A New Connection Point . The Eon concept is simple, and works with and for a wide variety of goods. That could mean all kinds of things.

Retail 76

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The stories come with significantly different price tags: $185 million and $13 billion. Yet, some common threads unite the respective bids by LendingClub for Radius Bank and by Morgan Stanley for E-Trade , with a nod toward the changing financial services landscape and serving customers through “one-stop shop” platform models. .

Banking 97

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APRIL 7, 2020

All options cost money, however, and high price tags on gear, classes or personalized training plans can deter individuals from achieving their health goals. Fitness Buffs’ Financial Crunches. BNPL financing options can also be good for consumers’ financial health, as they do not affect credit scores the way many payment cards do.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Consumers and businesses have been moving online in recent years, and regulators from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have worked to keep up with this migration. Consumers’ changing views are prompting MENA financial authorities to reexamine how their present regulations handle online privacy.

Banking 70

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

Cross-website cookies have underpinned digital advertising for a quarter of a century, the Financial Times reported. . Google said in a post that it desired to create alternative tools to “sustain an ad-supported web” in such a fashion that would “render third-party cookies obsolete” within the timeframe of two years.

Advertising 52

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

$246 billion in cross-border corporate acquisitions last year, and now China’s buyout frenzy seems poised to quiet down quite a bit. The drop is reminiscent, said the newswire, of the cliff-dive seen in the nadir of the great financial crisis. Such constraints have had an impact on merger activity. Looking for a rebound?

Investments 40

Investments 40

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

percent of financial institutions are focused on new products, according to the PYMNTS Bank Innovation Readiness Index. Lyft publicly touted its year one stats with the program — according to their reports, it has paid out $500 million to drivers. To help drive innovation, 25.5 About a third — or 33.2 About two in 10 — or 17.8

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OCTOBER 20, 2019

Ghana says it plans to eliminate paper from most services and transactions by next year as it aims to become Africa’s most digitalized economy. The government claims that it will have “electronically tagged” every home, including informal housing in slums, via GPS by early 2020.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

No one really knows what might happen across a legal saga that will play out over years. As we noted in this space earlier in the year, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating acquisitions made by Big Tech firms in the past 10 years. Haze Surrounding Waze? . In sight has been the $1.1 Banks, Too .

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Digital payments form a critical facet of the world’s economy, facilitating the flow of tens of trillions of dollars among individuals and businesses each year. Banks are typically required to establish direct links with financial institutions (FIs) in other nations to make or receive cross-border payments.

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APRIL 16, 2018

The following year, the firm revealed an extended partnership with Twitter for precise location tagging attached to collections of tweets, not only individual tweets. Foursquare began strengthening its B2B services in 2015 following partnerships with Twitter and Microsoft as demand for Big Data increased.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

12), citing the Financial Times, the device maker Fitbit is in the midst of patent lawsuits with Jawbone and also tried to buy that company late last year. The price tag? Not quantified, but according to anonymous sources reached by the financial publication, it would have amounted to a “tiny fraction” of the $1.5

Valuation 40

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APRIL 18, 2019

Since many European Union (EU) countries have now brought PSD2 and GDPR fully into their financial infrastructures, banks and merchants must prepare for the upcoming Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) rule and its fast-approaching September deadline. Solving for SCA’s $100-Billion-a-Year Problem.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

28) said Gallagher researchers are urging small and medium-sized businesses to develop incidence response plans amid revelations that such crises result in major financial losses. Nearly one-quarter of SMBs surveyed said they were affected by some kind of crisis event in 2018, a 5 percent increase from the prior year.

Securities 41

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The initial focus on Wall Street and beyond may have been, and may still be, the price tag: At a reputed $30 billion, the bid price was roughly 10 percent over eBay’s closing price coming into The Wall Street Journal report that shed some light on the offer. billion, and as measured for the full year, were up 1 percent to $10.8

CFO 53

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APRIL 8, 2020

point-of-sale (POS) form of lending that’s become a retail sensation around the world in recent years. This price tag is more than a four-year public college degree – which currently clocks in at $98,440, on average – and includes both gym memberships and fitness classes like Pilates or spin.

Manufacturing 69

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APRIL 14, 2019

Apple , aiming to move beyond the iPhone to drive sales, is reportedly spending millions of dollars to acquire new video games to be part of the subscription gaming service it will roll out later this year. To compensate, it has set its sights on services. The budget for the games is expected to surpass $500 million, noted the report.

Investments 43

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JULY 21, 2017

As reported Friday (July 21), American multinational financial services firm Blackstone and private equity firm CVC Capital Partners have bid to acquire payments processor Paysafe Group. The price tags attached to the deals were reported as $3.7 The $470 million price tag will be funded by $90 million in cash and a $380 million loan.

Sales 43

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

That figure is compounded by data that indicated fewer consumers are reporting stronger financial health than 12 months ago and fewer believing the economy is still improving. As many as a fifth of consumer say their holiday budgets will be reduced this year if tariffs increase the prices of items more than 10 percent.

Budgeting 43

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JANUARY 19, 2017

This year could be the year that blockchain emerges from its current status as a largely hypothetical game-changer to one that’s put to the test. While few working applications of blockchain technology are in use today by financial service providers, the industry continues to place its confidence — and money — behind the technology.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Per the report : “The card may take years to reach our threshold for materiality, or above $1 billion in operating profit.”. Nomura estimates a price tag of $350 per consumer in terms of acquisition costs, which means breakeven is several years away. This may mean that Apple eventually offers a decoupled debit card.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Some of the most at-risk targets include businesses in the financial services, consulting and healthcare arenas, the blog post noted. 555 billion is the price tag small businesses could see as a result of data breaches , according to recent analysis by iomart. said recently. Taking into account the estimated 30.2

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MAY 28, 2019

Half of global online transactions are expected to take place in Asia this year. Indonesian ride-hailing and online payment company GO-JEK , for instance, is expanding its financial technology services through partnerships with peer-to-peer (P2P) lending firms Dana Cita, Aktivaku and Findaya. That marked an increase from 2017’s $1.4

Communication 63

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JANUARY 17, 2023

The graph below shows the sovereign spreads for Russia and Ukraine in the weeks leading up and including the conflict: The sovereign CDS spread for Russia, which started the year at 1.70% soared above 25%, just after hostilities commenced, and were trading at 10.56% on March 16, after rumors that peace talks were underway brought them down.

Economics 130

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MAY 11, 2017

Reports Wednesday (May 10) said Moneycorp has agreed to acquire Commonwealth FX, though the companies did not disclose the price tag of the deal, but did say that it would finance it by paying 20 percent using cash on hand. Reports also said Moneycorp revenues hit $140 million last year, while Commonwealth revenue hit $20 million.

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MAY 26, 2020

She noted that 60 years of economic ebbs and flows since the mid-20 th century have caused generational economic expectations to slide. That will make it immeasurably more difficult for millennials to find a steady financial footing going forward.

Economics 61

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

The price tag attached to a data breach on a small business has increased this year, according to new analysis from IBM and Ponemon Institute. With their newly released “ 2016 Cost of Data Breach: Canada ” report, the firms examined the financial impact of data breaches on 24 companies in Canada to assess the damage.

Securities 77

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

. Last year, only 25 real-time payment systems were operational worldwide — that number is growing rapidly. By September of this year, 40 such rails were live, with 16 more expected to launch by early 2020. expresses interest in a new RTGS system, financial players in the country are also working to improve existing schemes.

Education 53

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Shipments of Apple’s iPhones plummeted around 20 percent in China during the fourth quarter of last year, as competitor Huawei Technologies was able to steal share. Huawei’s success in China comes against a backdrop of international turmoil, with its chief financial officer recently arrested over claims of bank fraud and the U.S.

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JUNE 13, 2018

It’s not entirely clear yet how — or if — blockchain will transform the financial services market, but that hasn’t stopped industry players from scrambling to get a leg up on the technology and ahead of the competition. Reports also noted that the number of employees assigned to blockchain projects has doubled year over year.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Businesses and financial institutions (FIs) are following suit, reordering their products and services for a new digital normal — but unfortunately, fraudsters are tagging along. Higher volumes of consumers are continuing to shop online even as brick-and-mortar stores reopen.

Securities 89

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But a new report from cloud accounting firm Sage has put a price tag on this burden: a whopping $600 billion for firms across the globe. billion in missed gross value each year due to 6.5 Manual processes are expensive for small businesses, in both time and money. Canada, U.K. Canada, U.K. With the average small business losing 4.9

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