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Fintech Focus For October 9, 2020
Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 6:04pm | 2287Read More...Quote Of The Day: The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Fintech Movers: Electronic trading giant Citadel Securities will bolster its already huge presence at the New York Stock Exchange by buying the NYSE market-making business of smaller...
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Want To Avoid CannTrust's Fate? Adopt These 5 Good Governance Practices
Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - 11:54am | 1000Read More...CannTrust Holdings Inc (NYSE: CTST) announced this week that Health Canada is investigating compliance violations at its manufacturing facility in Vaughan, Ontario. The company’s board of directors has initiated an internal investigation to determine the root cause of the problem and...
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Challenger Banks: Who's Who?
Tuesday, August 13, 2019 - 11:50am | 637Read More...Challenger banks are continuing to disrupt the competitive landscape in the financial services sector. They are small retail banks that have been set up with the intention of competing for business from large, long-established national banks. In the United Kingdom, challenger banks like Monzo...
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Rapid-Fire Pitch: KPMG
Wednesday, December 26, 2018 - 2:29pm | 435Read More...KPMG managing director Yatish Desai and audit partner Ryan McCarthy presented a blockchain solution seeking to add transparency and visibility in the transportation space. They introduced the ledger to the MarketWaves 18 audience during a series of seven-minute rapid fire demos held...
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Meet SizeUp, The Startup Using Fintech To Narrow The Information Divide For Small Businesses
Monday, September 18, 2017 - 2:46pm | 834Read More...SizeUp CEO Anatalio Ubalde is the architect of a fintech platform that provides data for small businesses that only Fortune 500 companies could typically afford. He’s also a springboarding platform diver who once chose between entering grad school and training for the Olympics. The difference...
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Venture Capital Firms Are Investing Less Money Today Than A Year Ago
Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 10:09am | 341Read More...According to a Bloomberg report, venture capital funds are investing less cash in startups today than they were a year ago. Notable Silicon Valley firms such as Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock Partners aren't having any problems raising cash; in fact, they are doing so at levels that haven't been...
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Top 10 Employers For Recent Graduates
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - 2:17pm | 273Read More...CNN Money reported Wednesday on succeeding in the new global economy, listing 25 of the world’s top employers of new graduates. Related Link: Top 10 Most Sought-After Employers In The United States The top 10 were as follows: Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) Apple Inc. (...
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TechCrunch Looks At FinTech's $138 Billion Opportunity
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 11:55am | 578Read More...FinTech is kind of a big deal. However, the actual market value of this sector is far from being realized. TechCrunch estimates the potential market opportunity to be $138 billion for just one highly-focused area. "Fintech is in the midst of a golden age of investment and innovation,...
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2015 Pulse Of Fintech Report: The Industry Is 'Maturing'
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 3:21pm | 460Read More...Last week, KPMG released its 2015 Pulse of Fintech report, chronicling the year's global Fintech investment and expansion. Fintech saw nearly $14 billion in investment over 653 deals globally in 2015. Two key trends emerged in their findings: funding to VC-backed companies more than doubled...
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Don't Expect Self-Driving Cars To Arrive By 2020
Thursday, January 2, 2014 - 1:40pm | 444Read More...KPMG and the Center for Automotive Research are among those who expect self-driving cars to go on sale by 2019. Nissan hopes to introduce the first self-driving automobile by 2020. That's a lofty goal, but consumers shouldn't expect any automaker to deliver a fully autonomous car within six years...
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EXCLUSIVE: GeoInvesting's Dan David Answers L&L Energy Questions (LLEN)
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 12:03pm | 921Read More...Disclosure: Dan David is short LLEN In an exclusive interview with Benzinga, Dan David of GeoInvesting answered questions about L&L Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: LLEN). Last month Geo wrote an article titled “GeoInvesting Blows The Whistle On L&L Energy,” which lays out the argument for L...
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Benzinga Market Primer: Wednesday, April 10
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 5:47am | 1203Read More...Futures Higher as Yen Slides, Eyeing FOMC Minutes U.S. equity futures rose in early pre-market trade Wednesday as the markets continued to react to Japan's easing policies. Later today, the minutes of the latest FOMC meeting will be released and markets will be focused on any language related to...
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Herbalife Investors Breath Sigh of Relief as KPMG Auditor Resignation Not Related to Accounting, Financial Statements
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 12:42pm | 283Read More...Shares of Herbalife (NYSE: HLF) remain in the spotlight Tuesday as the company announced KPMG would be resigning as an auditor. Herbalife assured the resignation was not related to Herbalife's financial statements. Traders in Herbalife were kept on the edge of their seats for quite some time...
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U.S. and Russian CEOs Meet with President Medvedev to Support Russia's WTO Accession
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 7:15am | 233Read More...The U.S.-Russia Business Council Board Members, led by USRBC Chairman Klaus Kleinfeld of Alcoa, met today with President Medvedev in St. Petersburg at The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum to present him with a letter voicing their full support for the Russian Federation's accession to...
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Strategist Recommends Apple, Akamai, Atheros (AAPL, AKAM, ATHR)
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 3:54pm | 126Read More...According to the latest survey conducted by KPMG, technology-firm CEOs are optimistic about the future. In an interview with CNBC, Brad Gastwirth, executive managing director of ABR Investment Strategy, discussed his strategy to make the best of this scenario. He said that he prefers to invest in...
