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Stop money laundering with a proactive AML approach

Insights on Business

Not just a limited scheme, between 2006 and 2013 it facilitated fake trade deals, reinsurance fraud, tax evasion, hidden investments, a fuel pricing fraud scheme at Sheremetyevo Airport—and much more. AML involves multiple types of fraud, tax evasion, illegal trades and other crimes. The recently revealed $8.8

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When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time

CB Insights

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.

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What’s Wrong With The Attack On Gig Economy Pay

PYMNTS

Yet here we are 13 years later, with a taxi industry that remains structurally identical to what it was in 2006 – and even 50 years before that – with drivers who are truly struggling to make ends meet. They want tools to help track their expenses and manage tax payments for the work they perform. Turning a Blind Eye.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

PYMNTS

And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are. And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness. They examined anonymized tax data starting in the 1940s until 2015.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. And one that should be every innovator’s anthem: “ Well done is better than well said.”. Three things that today seem more like talk than truly transformative innovations. Then, there are the claims being made by innovators about its potential. Benjamin Franklin.

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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

bank failures per year between 1996 and 2006, and 3.6 In the late 90s, low interest rates made speculative equity investments more attractive than bonds, and at the same time, innovative internet companies grew in popularity among retail investors, professional traders, venture capitalists, and the like (familiar?).

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Quantifying the full impact of country-specific policies on trade flows

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However, this leads to omitted variable bias, coined the ‘gold medal mistake’ by Baldwin and Taglioni (2006). A byproduct of the analysis is that we obtain an estimate of the trade elasticity for services, which is typically challenging to estimate given that services trade is not taxed in the same way that goods trade is via tariffs.