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FICO Named America's Best Mid-Sized Employer by Forbes Magazine

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Richard Deal Richard Deal leads FICO’s Human Resources function focused on attracting, engaging, developing and deploying talent through innovative human capital management strategies. You can read the complete Forbes piece here. He joined FICO in January, 2001 from Arcadia Financial Ltd., where he held the executive HR role for three years.

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SMB-Focused Lender Judo Bank Attains Unicorn Status

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Australia’s Judo Bank has attained unicorn status, according to FinTech Magazine , meaning it has achieved a valuation of at least $1 billion. Judo Bank, a challenger bank, received $148 million in a Series C funding round from investors, including existing backers like Ironbridge Capital and Bain Capital.

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Firms Gravitate To Remote IPOs For Cost And Time Savings

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Fabiane Goldstein, a founding partner of InspIR Group, points to a growing number of successful virtual IPOs in the United States as well as China in a recent piece in IR Magazine. “As The results so far have been encouraging, with investors in some cases showing a heightened interest in virtual IPOs.

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Workshop: Machine Learning Models for Interest Rates by Alexander Sokol

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The workshop is open to software engineers, data scientists, quantitative risk managers, and anyone who is interested in learning more about machine learning models and their applications in finance. *Autoencoder short rate model in the Q- and P-measures. Autoencoder forward rate model in the Q-measure. Hands-on examples in Python.

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Amazon Acquires Startup Graphiq To Help Improve Alexa

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It recently began looking to hire additional software developers and data associates in the area to work on Alexa. The company had raised approximately $32 million in private financing, with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Pritzker Group Venture Capital as its biggest venture capital backers. Montgomery & Co.

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Wall Street’s Pullback Shows Hot IPOs’ Inherent Risks

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True, the Renaissance Capital IPO ETF — comprised of some 60 of the past two years’ largest IPOs — is up some 60 percent year to date, CNBC reported. Renaissance Capital Co-Founder Kathleen Smith told CNBC that 70 percent of Wall Street’s recent IPOs are currently trading above their IPO price. Thursday’s steep U.S.

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Is Rocky SAP Shareholder Vote Cause For Concern?

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Nearly 70 percent of SAP’s share capital was represented at the Wednesday meeting, reports said. According to Fortune Magazine , shareholder votes during these meetings are “normally routine” for German companies, and they “effectively [signal] investor confidence in the board.”. “Too percent of the vote.

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