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Equifax Names Ex-Mastercard CEO To Its Board

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Bob’s record of strategic innovation and background as a seasoned CEO with knowledge of our industry will strengthen our Board’s broad-based skillset. According to Equifax , Selander served as president and CEO of Mastercard from 1997 until 2010. Feidler in the press release.

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The Connected Economy: It’s About Time

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One of the most important innovations in history is the pendulum clock, which was invented in 1636 by Christiaan Huygens , a Dutch scientist and founder of the field of mathematical physics. Enabling people to use their scarce time more efficiently has been at the core of many disruptive innovations throughout history.

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Yahoo! Is! For! Sale!: Why Banks Should Care

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The announcement in December came on the heels of a nearly 12-month project aimed at spinning its 15% interest (worth $30 billion) in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company, to its shareholders, a transaction that has been abandoned over tax concerns. After a dalliance with Microsoft’s Bing in 2010, Yahoo! Ironically, Yahoo!

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Copenhagen Banks On Livability For Tech Success

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Denmark has gained quite a reputation for supporting an overall positive business environment and fostering creativity and innovation – all of which have contributed to its capital city attracting the attention of global startups. There is a perception that larger companies drive innovation as opposed to startups.

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AltFin Shines As Investor Interest In B2B FinTech Continues

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Total venture capital across the global FinTech market between 2010 and 2017 hit a combined $97.7 The Austin, Texas-based company charges a monthly fee to automatically provide small businesses with annual reports and forms needed to file taxes and other legal documents within the state.

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Innovation in the Asset Management industry

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On the “Beta” end of the scale, ETFs are steadily becoming one of the most successful innovation in recent decades. Companies such as Betterment (disclosure, Anthemis is an investor & I am a customer) make investing in a diversified portfolio of ETFs easy and provide additional services such as automated rebalancing and tax optimisation.

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Pricing GDP-linked bonds

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These instruments present an obvious attraction for issuers: repayments are lower at times when the economy is growing relatively slowly, which typically coincides with lower tax earnings. The model innovates by using data on equity yields to extract information about GDP expectations.