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Small Firms Find Tight Labor Market A Costly Challenge

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While entrepreneurs continue to reflect record-level optimism, their top concerns are increasingly including the tight labor market and the importance of retaining staff in such a climate. “And that’s the way the market economy works, for better or worse.” How did small businesses fare in job growth last month?

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UK Casual Dining Firm The Restaurant Group Shutters 150 Eateries

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million pre-tax loss for the first half of this year. The group said in a statement that “given the well-documented overcapacity and continued like-for-like sales decline in the casual dining market and cost headwinds, we have taken a more cautious medium-term outlook” for the business.

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InComm Buys Amex’s Serve Prepaid Card Tech

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The companies, as reported by Bloomberg, have struck the agreement as AmEx is shifting away from what the newswire termed “down-market customers.” Other products that now fall under InComm’s purview as processor and program manager include business-to-business rewards and tax disbursement cards. .

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Ant Financial Looking At 2016 IPO In Shanghai

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The public offering could be China’s largest since 2010, according to two people familiar with the matter. better known worldwide as Ant Financial — is the owner of China’s most popular payments platform, Alipay, and the manager of Yu’E Bao, the nation’s largest money market fund. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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AltFin Shines As Investor Interest In B2B FinTech Continues

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and India drove a surge in FinTech venture capital funding in 2017, and Accenture Financial Services Senior Managing Director Julian Skan pointed to the B2B business model as a significant presence in this trend. Total venture capital across the global FinTech market between 2010 and 2017 hit a combined $97.7

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

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It was only in December when management shared the stunning news that Yahoo! 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.

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Innovation in the Asset Management industry

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While other sectors attract more mainstream press attention (payment, retail banking), the asset management industry is also deeply affected by “software eating the world” Asset Class Competition. Traditional asset management companies are increasingly facing competition on both sides of the performance scale.