PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Uber has come across strong resistance from taxi drivers after selecting Bogota as its inaugural South American operation in 2013. A taxi service sued Uber for going against competition norms, and a local market regulator ruled against the ride-hailing firm last month.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Germany is Amazon’s second-largest market after the U.S. . The union has been striking in Germany since 2013 over wages, but Amazon has said few workers participated and there was little impact on productivity. Germany is in a special position in the industry because most delivery firms subcontract.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island), chairman of the House Antitrust Subcommittee, has asked each of the company’s executives to testify before completing its investigation and crafting reforms that would regulate the digital market. Cook testified in 2013 about Apple’s payment of taxes, CNBC reported.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Steve Chen, the mastermind behind a $147 million gemcoin fraud from 2013 to 2015, pleaded guilty of his crimes of tax evasion and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, reported on Wednesday (Feb. The scheme was a multilevel marketing (MLM) operation that went on for two years, and managed to scam 70,000 victims for a total of $147 million.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

In fact, interest in such games “has soared in the past year, with some companies aggressively targeting collectors from more established markets,” according to the report. But there is always some kind of market for collectibles, and not just video games from a generation ago. Take the general toy market.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For smaller banks, longer-term industry consolidation trends and competition are also eroding deposit market share. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City , community banks’ deposit market share dropped to 15% in 2022 from 22% in 2013. The result? The result?

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 10, 2014

As you prepare for upcoming engagements with your “best” tax and audit clients, be thinking of how you will turn those meetings into opportunities for additional business advisory work once busy season ends. percent, according to The 2013 Big Four Performance Analysis by Big4.com. Find professionals (bankers, lawyers, etc.)

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The magazine, via columnist David Trainer, said that Overstock took its place among last month’s most dangerous stocks and could in fact be the “next victim of the retail market.”. Some numbers belie the pressures at hand. That comes even as Overstock’s top line has been growing, indicating operational pressures.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Many of those clients will be facing major life and business decisions in the near future as they approach retirement age, presenting a unique opportunity for accountants to assist them through services that go beyond tax preparation. 21 at 1 p.m. Here are four: 1. Valuation services can help your firm (and your compensation) grow.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

In the Middle East , RAK Bank has said it will offer Sage accounting software to business banking customers, in an agreement that helps those firms manage value-added tax (VAT) compliance mandates. The software firm, Sage, has had five of its accounting offerings focused on VAT, accredited by the UAE Federal Tax Authority.

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 19, 2013

more “promises,” and a constant flow of new money into the markets. The biggest beneficiary of all this Fed activity has been the stock market—which ended the year at some pretty good “handles,” with the Dow above 13,000, S&P 500 above 1,400, and the Nasdaq above 3,000. Oh, wait, our Congress!

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Thomas Curry, comptroller of the currency, commented on the changes at the 2013 AICPA Banking Conference, stating, “There is no question that implementation of the FASB proposal will require most banks to boost their allowance; perhaps in the neighborhood of 30-50% system-wide if applied today.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Gox exchange back in 2013, its price has been trending upward for over a year-and-a-half. While bitcoin remains largely unregulated and relatively unsecured worldwide, recent strides have been made in Japan to capitalize on the cryptocurrency market. The product is now available for the Japanese bitcoin market bitFlyer.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

With the closing of the deal – Airbnb is under somewhat let pressure to get itself up and running on the open market as it now has a fresh new infusion of funds to invest in expansion oversees and to keep their employees happy with by giving them a chance to sell their “stock.”

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Small firms accounted for nearly two-thirds of the net new jobs created between 1993 and mid-2013, and they provide nearly half of private-sector employment. Net profit margin has been adjusted to exclude taxes and include owner compensation in excess of their market-rate salaries. Small Business Administration , there were 28.2

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Several markets are beginning to deploy or have already introduced biometrics to their national identification systems for a wide range of purposes. Residents can use these IDs to conduct different types of government business, including filing taxes or accessing pensions. . Digitizing government services .

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Banking 2020

JANUARY 27, 2016

In fact, by far the biggest potential exists in emerging markets where there has been very little signs of a move away from cash – until now. per cent recorded in 2013. percent in 2013 and is expected to reach 27 percent in 2014. per cent in 2013. Newer technologies help Asian markets. billion transactions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Put the finishing touches on those late-year marketing plans. An estimated 9 percent of the country’s retail market experienced the crashes. The government mandated deployment of the web-connected (and less than successful) cash registers in an effort to cut down on tax avoidance. percent year-over-year increase, to $124.1

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

Jason West, a Credit Suisse analyst, said in a note that the stock has lost about 12 percent of its value from recent highs (as quoted by CNBC.com ), and yet forward earnings should get a boost, in part, from tax cuts. In addition, “near-term concerns around competition” are already priced in.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Diehards, however, are still crying “ hodl ” — the cryptocurrency community’s rallying cry, inspired by an enthusiastic misspelling of “hold” in a 2013 Reddit thread. Dimon said he would fire any JPMorgan employee found to be speculating in that market. Others continue charging full steam ahead.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

In 2013, there were 6,812 FDIC-insured financial institutions. Provision, and income taxes. Most of the institutions, if not all of them, probably took a Deferred Tax Asset (DTA) writedown in the income tax line item, impacting these bottom line ratios. Source for all charts: S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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Abrigo

MAY 14, 2015

According to Nielsen data from 2013, about 82 percent of users visit Yelp with the intent to make a purchase from a local business, and about 89 percent of those make said purchase within a week of their search. Just about any need, including accounting services, can be searched for and rated via Yelp. Word of mouth has moved online.

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Abrigo

MARCH 18, 2016

“Your marketplace, if you want to look at strategic valuations, is open to about everyone who has a business, so there’s a huge market,” McDaniel said during a recent webinar hosted by Sageworks. There’s a huge opportunity for all of us in the valuation field to assist our owners in valuations and in succession and exit planning.”

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The 2018 Fintech 250 have raised approximately $53B in aggregate funding across 947 deals since 2013, and includes startups at different investment stages of development, from early-stage (seed/Series A) companies to well-funded unicorns. The market map below categorizes the Fintech 250 companies based on core area of focus.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

billion via business wire fraud between October 2013 and December 2016, the FBI calculated. Despite its age, wire can indeed see disruption from more novel tools like APIs and data analytics, while filling gaps in markets where ACH and its non-U.S. Thieves attempted to steal $5.3 counterparts are not available.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

According to research from the PYMNTS.com Subscription Commerce Conversion Index™ (SCCI) , demand for subscription boxes is estimated to have grown by a whopping 3,000 percent between 2013 and 2016 alone. Adapting to a growing market. As those taxes and other regulatory fees increased, it really impacted business.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2017

The California-based company was founded in 2013 by brothers Adam and Jordan Mendler and is now led by the two of them plus their sister, Rachel. But the business is really the marriage of cigars, technology, marketing and branding.”. However, it has helped in becoming a cyclical effort of marketing and purchasing cycles. “My

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2017

Low-income consumers are far more likely to find it difficult to secure mainstream credit sources and are thus much more likely to make use of high-cost alternative credit sources when financial emergencies hit, often in the form of a payday, title, tax refund anticipation or installment loan. And that’s just accessing money itself.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

I was in a meeting earlier in the week where someone said that even with ApplePay, the US is far behind Japan in mobile payments, so I thought I’d do a quick update on Japan which, as for the US, we label a “special case” in our analysis of the market: we can learn from it, but it doesn’t tell us anything about how other markets might develop.

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 9, 2012

On June 28th, the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act as constitutional, calling penalties on individuals for failing to purchase health insurance a “tax.” This decision sets in motion a series of steps to implement the law over the next few years along with the estimated $813 billion in taxes and levies over the next ten years.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

And it seems the market, so far, agrees with Square’s self- assessment of good news. Square earnings before interest, taxes, and other expenses included was $13 million – which beat the firm’s upper end guidance. But is all the enthusiasm warranted? Square Earnings By The Numbers. Lending’s Continue March Forward.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

But the town is also demonstrating its versatility as the end of banking secrecy, and new tax reforms are threatening its economy. ” One of the first entrepreneurs to arrive was South African Johann Gevers, who brought his platform Monetas in 2013.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2018

Bloomberg reported last week that hyperinflation in the country was so bad it had “ broken the stock market.”. Transforming money in PayPal into money in the bank costs 30 percent, which for customers is basically like getting taxed twice on that money. However, in 2013, the use case wasn’t quite there yet. AirTM’s Philosophy.

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 20, 2017

They need a marketing person to title their reports. The OCC did an excellent analysis of the impact of this guidance in 2013. It shows the pre-tax profit as a percent of the loan portfolios measured. What is the trend in your market? Let your markets and customers do the talking. Maybe sub out an economist or two.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010 in an attempt to gain share in online payments, a then-nascent market with seemingly boundless growth opportunity. Market opportunity. Stripe is ramping up its private market investments. Expansion into emerging markets. Stripe’s market opportunity.

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 22, 2014

The most profitable program that we measure, on a pre-tax profit as percent of revenue basis, is one that is totally outsourced. At the end of 2013, US registered investment companies managed $17.1 The rep is a full-fledged employee of the third party broker-dealer, and the bank incurs little expense from it. So grow your own reps.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. My method was to search for the best banks based on total return to shareholders over the past five years.

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