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Accounting Background No Longer Needed For CFO Jobs

PYMNTS

For example, when directors of Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital were looking for someone to fill the role, they were more worried about hiring someone who had experience with raising debt and equity, and they didn’t care if the person was a former accountant. But that freed us up to get a capital-markets-focused CFO.”.

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simPRO Taps Square To Power Field Service Payments

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Founded in 2002, simPRO secured $31 million in growth capital in 2016 as part of an aggressive product innovation and expansion strategy. “Processing payments and managing transactions is an important part of the field service workflow,” Jonathan Eastgate, simPRO chief technology officer, said in the release. “By

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

Fintech Labs Insights

Innovations from 1995 to 2014 (with launch dates) Note: Ranking as of Jan 2014 Wells Fargo is first in the world to offer Web-statement access (launched May 1995) Security First Network Bank launches first full-service Internet bank brand (Oct 1995, disbanded 2002) PayPal launches first online optimized payment system (Nov 1999, bought by eBay in 2003) (..)

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Equifax Names Warburg Pincus Executive Its New CEO

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During Begor’s 35 years at General Electric, Equifax said he was in charge of multibillion-dollar business units as president and CEO of GE Energy Management from 2014 to 2016, president and CEO of GE Capital Real Estate from 2011 to 2014 and president and CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance (Synchrony Financial) from 2002 to 2011. “I

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. To you, manage your interest rate risk.

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Apple’s Long Strange Trip to A $2T Valuation

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trillion market capitalization — almost double where it was just two years ago. Wedbush Securities Analyst Daniel Ives offered a resounding yes in a research note on Sunday (Aug. The nation’s first 3G network first started construction in January 2002 and covered the majority of the country by the iPhone’s launch in 2007.

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Could Retail Job Growth Actually Save Companies Money?

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According to seasonally adjusted data from BLS, in fact, employment numbers in the two sectors have been on their current divergent courses since 2002, when retail first overtook manufacturing. And while the number of retail jobs in the U.S. Noting, in an op-ed piece for Investor’s Business Daily , that the bulk of the new jobs in the U.S.

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