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Today In Data: Self-Employment, Finance Jobs And PayPal’s Woes

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The self-employed workforce is growing, despite hurdles like financial insecurity, lack of pension, expense tracking, tax returns and more. 100 percent | Growth of international payments solution Flywire’s business in the Asia-Pacific region over the last year. because of Brexit.

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Singapore Bitcoin Exchange Startup Raises $16M

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A startup in Singapore offering bitcoin exchange and cryptocurrency services just secured another major round of funding. This follows its $2 million Series A round in December 2014. The company, Quoine , announced that is has raised $16 million for its Series B round.

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A Global Approach To Local B2B Payments Digitization

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percent between 2014 and 2014 representing the highest growth in a decade, researchers said. Regional Trends. Emerging Asia is seeing ongoing traction for payment cards in the corporate sphere as companies turn to commercial cards for more secure supplier payments. The 2017 report , released Monday (Oct.

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Big Banks Continue SMB Lending Uptick, Biz2Credit Finds

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Despite some recent bumps, the economy has done well during President Trump’s first year in office, and tax cuts have also added to optimism among small business owners,” reflected Rohit Arora, CEO of Biz2Credit. Often, companies that cannot find funding from banks are able to secure financing from alternative (non-bank) lenders.”.

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A too-busy-to-change mentality can cost accounting firms new business

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How many times have you had to refer a client out to another financial services firm because your firm is too busy putting out fires with tax and audit work to provide business analytics or other advisory services ? “So they hope the clients will come back after they pass them off to a valuation firm.”

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: France Fines Amazon And Google $164 Million; Australia Warns Facebook And Google To Pay News Firms 

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We stand by our record of providing upfront information and clear controls, strong internal data governance, secure infrastructure, and above all, helpful products.”. “People who use Google expect us to respect their privacy, whether they have a Google account or not,” a representative for Google said, per the report. “We

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Deep Dive: Smoothing X-Border Subscription Payment Pains

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Consumers worldwide appear increasingly receptive to subscription offerings, with a recent survey of those in 12 countries finding the share of adult respondents who have subscription services rose from 53 percent in 2014 to 71 percent in 2019. Payments may move through many intermediaries, too, each adding time to the processing journey.

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