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Deep Dive: How Firms Can Avoid Costly Mistakes Come Tax Season

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businesses are likely already feeling tax season’s pressures. Filing is exhausting and complicated for individuals, and businesses experience those tax difficulties to a far greater degree. SMBs And Manual Tax Frustrations. Spring may seem far away, but U.S. That more-measured approach is not necessary, though.

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Cross-Border Payments, Innovation And CEO Insights Top Week’s News

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Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar. Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Visa: Chip Cards Reduce Counterfeit Fraud By 87 Pct. Trackers and Reports.

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Italian Postal Service Targets SMBs With QR Code Payments

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The Italian government is setting aside $3 billion for the venture, with the goal of cutting down on fraud and black market deals. The country has the highest rate of value-added tax (VAT) fraud in Europe. It’s estimated that the black market economy made up about 12 percent of the country’s yearly economic output in 2017.

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Degrees Of Fraud: Digital Identity At Online Universities

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One of the biggest forms of education-related fraud is as simple as it is prevalent: students sending someone else to take tests for them. This type of fraud played a significant role in this year’s widely publicized college admission scandal. The university began utilizing a webcam-based system in 2015. Trust, But Verify.

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Bitcoin Daily: Tether’s Parent Co. Hit With $1T Lawsuit; Nearly $10B In Bitcoin Held In Crypto Exchanges

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Plaintiffs say that the actions of iFinex was “part fraud, part pump-and-dump and part money-laundering.”. And the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) announced that they have signed an operational agreement on the BIS Innovation Hub Centre in Switzerland.

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In Construction, Tech Provides The Blueprint To Profits

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Other construction firms like Procore and FLUX have earned multimillion dollar funding rounds from big-name VCs, too, as innovators tackle the nuanced complexities of an industry. The construction sector is also held back by a continued reliance on manual processes and paper, despite the recent attention of tech innovators.

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17 Of The Biggest Startup Frauds Of All Time

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Few places are more receptive to new ideas and innovative business models than Silicon Valley. Below, we take a look at some of these frauds and the lessons they can teach entrepreneurs hoping to launch their own products, companies, and funds. Mozido’s fintech fraud fiasco. want to know THE TOP 20 REASONS STARTUPS FAIL?

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