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Automation tipping point for financial transaction taxes arrives

Bobsguide

Financial transaction taxes (FTT), a levy on financial transactions such as the purchase or sale of financial instruments, have been on the radar of capital markets firms for over a decade. The 2008 global financial crisis created political pressure to ensure that the financial sector contributed.

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Death And Taxes: One Is Becoming Much More Digital

PYMNTS

After the holiday season comes tax season — everyone’s favorite time — but at least the payment of taxes, along with the tax refund process, promises to become even more digital this year. And digital payers are striving to win more business from tax filers this year. That’s up from about 59 percent in 2008. “As

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Report: Taxpayers Face $400B Hit On Bad Student Loans

PYMNTS

The figure, which approaches banks’ losses during the 2008 sub prime mortgage crisis, resulted from an analysis performed by the U.S. Private lenders lost $535 billion on low-quality mortgages during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analysics told the WSJ, according to Saturday’s article.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update - First Quarter 2024

Jeff For Banks

In the markets, we watched helplessly as real GDP plummeted -5% in 1Q20 and -31% in 2Q20 before rebounding by +33% in 3Q20. I’ve previously theorized that China would try to reclaim its global market share lost during the pandemic by flooding the markets with cheaper goods. This development could give us good news on inflation.

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The Bank of England Blinks

South State Correspondent

The UK continues to dominate the trading this week, and this morning the Bank of England said they would temporarily cease their quantitative tightening program and instead turn to temporary quantitative easing, or long bond buying, in order to “restore orderly market conditions.”. The recession in the housing market is in full swing.

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I made millions out of the last debt crisis. Now the wealthy stand to win again | Gary Stevenson

TheGuardian

We urgently need a fairer tax system so that rich people like me help solve the fallout from coronavirus, not just profit from it • Gary Stevenson is an economist and former interest rate trader Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage I made my first million the year Greece went under. I was 24 years old at the time.

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US Treasury Eyes Borrowing Almost $3 Trillion In Second Quarter

PYMNTS

That amount is over five times as much as the country borrowed at the height of the Great Recession in 2008. All the while, tax revenue is sinking due to the millions of layoffs as much of the economy remains shut down all over the country. To fight the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. government said it is planning to borrow $2.99

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