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Indonesia Reduces Import Tax Threshold To Protect Smaller Firms

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Indonesia has announced it’s going to reduce the threshold for taxing imported eCommerce consumer goods from $75 to $3, to help control the purchases of cheap foreign goods and help protect smaller Indonesian firms, according to a report by Reuters. They’ll be taxed at a rate of 32.5 million last year and 6.1 percent to 37.5

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Bankers: Can You Create a Culture of Operating Discipline Even if You Have No or Few Shareholders?

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I posed this question while speaking at a recent conference. Source: S&P Capital IQ for Banks-Savings Banks and Credit Unions between $1B-$10B in total assets. Even though they pay no federal corporate income taxes? Retained earnings is their least expensive form of capital. In some cases, their only form of capital.

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After A Century, Barclays Steps Back From Africa Operations

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The decision to pare back operations in Africa — where the company will sell off much of its 62 percent ownership in publicly traded Barclays Africa — represents what The New York Times said was a step back from one of the key pillars of Barclays’ long-term strategy, right in lockstep with credit cards and investment banking.

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Egypt Eyes eInvoicing To Modernize Public Procurement

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Egypt is readying an electronic invoicing mandate for consumers to pay their taxes, an initiative that reports said will eventually expand to standardize invoicing in government procurement processes. Reports in Zawya on Monday (Dec. Reports in Zawya on Monday (Dec.

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Treasurers Remain Unfazed By Trade Tensions, Rate Hikes

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13) after surveying finance professionals who attended the Association for Financial Professionals’ 2018 Treasury & Finance Conference held last week, according to a press release. On a broader scale, just 13 percent of professionals said international trade agreements and tariffs are having the greatest impact on their operations.

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Mr. Bank Investor, I Have Two Questions

Jeff For Banks

I recently delivered remarks at a bank institutional investor conference titled "Don't Be Mr./Ms. The conference included a panel of recognizable bank stock investors who waxed eloquent on their criteria for making and maintaining their interest as an investor in your financial institution. Irrelevant."

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Wild Cards? Gambling, Payroll, Other Models Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid

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To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. A decade after that conference, new types of card products are emerging and helping to build ecosystems, doing so via those long-standing principles of innovation and scale.

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