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Deep Dive: How Firms Can Avoid Costly Mistakes Come Tax Season

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businesses are likely already feeling tax season’s pressures. Filing is exhausting and complicated for individuals, and businesses experience those tax difficulties to a far greater degree. SMBs need to remain compliant with increasingly complex financial regulations. SMBs And Manual Tax Frustrations.

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Bitcoin Daily: Malaysia Will Start Regulating ICOs, Russia May Invest In Bitcoin To Take On Sanctions

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Malaysia’s initial coin offering (ICO) regulations are said to take effect on Tuesday (January 15) per a notice from the Securities Commission (SC) in the country, Coindesk reported. At the same time, it was said that those who engage in digital asset dealing will have to follow rules for anti-money laundering (AML), among other regulations.

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Cross-Border Payments, Innovation And CEO Insights Top Week’s News

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Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar. Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. million merchants, whereas in September of 2015 that number was only 392,000.

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RegTech’s Effort To Ease The Cost Of Compliance

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More than half of companies surveyed by SWIFT and Dow Jones Risk & Compliance last year said they plan to invest in RegTech in the coming years, and most agree that technology has enabled a greater ability to remain compliant with key regulations surrounding anti-money laundering , Know Your Customer and more. billion in 2015.

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Why Regulators’ War On Fees Will Kill Consumers

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billion people and raked in more than $6 billion of profits in 2015. And speaking of free, they surely have a great “free” thing going themselves — they get paid really good salaries and other perks that are – let’s sing this together now – “tax FREE!”. That quid pro quo is also why Facebook has a massive audience of 1.5

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Electronic Invoicing Opens A Door To SMB Digitization

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What’s more, how can a business feel confident in embracing a new technology when the next generation of an innovation could be just around the corner? How does one know when to leap into a new technology without getting hit with issues like implementation problems, technical challenges and the threat of a wasted investment?

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How will new regulations affect China’s online payments market?

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China has introduced new draft rules that are intended to tighten regulations governing online payments in the country. Chinese market research company iResearch estimates that in the first quarter of 2015, a total of 2.4 The impact of tougher regulations.