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How Masabi Makes Public Transit Ticketing Mobile

PYMNTS

According to Jonathan Donovan, chief product officer at mobile ticketing and payment technology provider Masabi , one only needs to fish out a cell phone to put these troubles to rest. In 2007, we started our first trial with a company called Chiltern Railways in the U.K.,” Donovan said. From paper to digital.

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Credit Karma Launches Free Tax Filing Service

Fintech Labs Insights

The San Francisco-based company launched a new (and free) tax return preparation offering this week to complement its flagship, free credit score monitoring, as well as its loan and credit card comparison technology. New and existing users will have access to free tax filing in January 2017, just in time for tax season.

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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. That the middle class is bifurcating — to the have’s and mostly to the have not’s as a result of jobs that are disappearing because technology and software is eliminating them. What they discovered was sobering: 56.5

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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. By the 1990’s, improvements in technology and further changes to securities regulations made it easier for corporate customers to access financial markets directly.

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The British cash gap

Tomorrow's Transactions

Central banks and criminals are colluding to grow the shadow economy, which seems mad to me, because the seigniorage income from the circulating medium of exchange is a fraction of the tax gap it stimulates. in Q4 2007. Charles and Jonathan refer to an older paper “ Is Cash Becoming Technologically Outmoded? That’s huge.

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JPMorgan Business Report: Positive On Growth, Weary Of Economy

PYMNTS

The top reasons for using the proceeds – for those considering loans of $100K or less – are: buying and repairing equipment (19 percent); purchasing inventory (18 percent); expansions (15 percent); and software and technology (15 percent). Taxes (28 percent). Challenges. Uncertainty of economic conditions (33 percent). in Q2 2015.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

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Simultaneously the bank invested in Paladin Fraud, Trabian Technology, and Chartwell Compliance to provide compliance and risk management solutions in the complex and connected web of fintech partnerships. Brandon Dewitt, MX co-founder and chief technology officer. Tom Sargent, CEO, First Technology Credit Union.

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