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NYC Taxi Commission Accused Of $810 Million Fraud

PYMNTS

She’s alleging the city profited by that same amount selling medallions and by collecting a 5% tax on third-party transfers. A taxicab medallion is a numbered plate required to operate a yellow cab. The price of an individual taxi medallion sold at an auction skyrocketed 240 percent from 2004 to 2014, from $283,300 to $965,000.

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India’s Struggling Yes Bank Sees Share Boost From $1.2B Offer

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Yes Bank is a private-sector bank that mainly operates as a corporate bank, but it also does asset management and retail banking. The Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex index also saw record highs, with a rally of more than 40,300 points due to a corporate tax cut and other business-boosting reforms. Regulators must approve it as well.

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Singapore Enterprise Buys TGI Friday’s; Capgemini Acquires Altran 

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Three stores were shuttered in 2018 as profits dipped due to issues with the input tax credit. Universal Success operates Outback Steakhouse restaurants in Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. The restaurant has nine locations in India and has been in the country for more than 20 years.

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The banks serving active duty personnel

Independent Banker

Community banks operate on a majority of the country’s military installations. Community banks comprise more than two-thirds of the 66 banks operating on U.S. Noemi Gallardo and Larry Wilson of First Arkansas Bank and Trust pose in front of a C-130 display plane at Little Rock Air Force Base, where the bank operates a branch.

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Ant Financial Close To Doubled Its Profit In Fiscal Year 2017

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According to a Bloomberg analysis of Alibaba’s recent filing, Ant Financial saw a 86 percent jump in pre-tax profit to $814 million in the fiscal year that ended in March. Ant Financial operates Alipay, the popular mobile payments service in China. Ant Financial is in the process of acquiring MoneyGram in the U.S.

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Lessons to apply to business valuations

Abrigo

There was a familiar conversation in 2004-06 where neighbors would find out what a house in the area sold for, peg the supposed value of their house off what their neighbor sold his or hers for and conclude that their house was worth $X. by running through the company’s operating structure. Beware the Comps. turns into $1.50

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Why Authentication And Real-Time Tracking Are Key To API Security

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The share of B2B transactions conducted via check has fallen 50 percent since 2004 and hit an all-time low of 42 percent last September, for example. B2B payments traditionally involved tedious manual bookkeeping and companies had to ensure they were deposited correctly and accounted for on their taxes.

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