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Singapore Enterprise Buys TGI Friday’s; Capgemini Acquires Altran 

PYMNTS

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 complementarity and power of our combined business and technological expertise are truly outstanding assets.

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Ant Financial Close To Doubled Its Profit In Fiscal Year 2017

PYMNTS

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

PYMNTS

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. Future of APIs .

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Uber of X: greenRush is The Uber of Cannabis

PYMNTS

After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the business of selling cannabis went mostly underground. Not until 2004 did cannabis become legal for non-medical use in certain areas of the country. Additional, burgeoning sources of revenue are technology and marketing solutions for cannabis brands.

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A Decline in Personal Savings

TrustBank

The BEA calculates the personal saving rate by subtracting taxes from personal income to arrive at “disposable personal income” and then subtracts personal outlays. As of October, the US ranked 32 nd according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) data. What’s left is an estimate of personal savings.

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Guest Post: Third Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

In another easing action dubbed “Operation Twist,” the Fed stated that they will sell $400 billion of their shorter securities (less than 3 year maturities) and buy the same amount of longer securities (6 to 30 year maturities) by June, 2012. This will act like a tax cut at just the time when it seems Washington DC will not provide one.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

While the rules against prop trading have more recently been loosened, the restriction has still changed how investment banks operate. At the same time, financial upstarts have built technologies that could eventually cut into the relationship-driven work that investment banks are used to doing. Table of contents.