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Workforce Management Platform Zira Notches $3.1M Investment

PYMNTS

Cloud-based workforce management platform Zira Technologies Inc. After talking with hundreds of managers and employees across a variety of industries, we felt it was time to take the burden off of managers and their employees,” Zira Co-founder and CEO Tito Goldstein said in the announcement. “By has landed $3.1 7) announcement.

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Coronavirus Puts B2B Payment Timing In A Tailspin

PYMNTS

2/7 Net 14 is a favorable payment strategy for B2B supplier struggling with late payments , according to accounts receivable (AR) management solution provider Collect911. With many businesses lacking the capital to pay their outstanding invoices, "cash-strapped companies will have to switch up their collections playbook to survive," he said.

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Beneficial State Bank’s financial activism

Independent Banker

Location: Oakland, Calif. billion-asset community bank in Oakland, Calif., Beneficial State Bank was born from a bold idea and a gift of capital from activists and philanthropists Kat Taylor and Tom Steyer. In March 2020, workers at Oakland, Calif.-based Name: Beneficial State Bank. Assets: $1.5 They unionized.

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Leveraged and inverse ETFs – the exotic side of exchange-traded funds

BankUnderground

Julian Oakland Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are supposed to be simple and straightforward, and for the most part they are, but one group punches well above its weight when it comes to market impact. However, as time passed, the ETF universe grew to include actively managed products, including rule-based trading strategies like L&I ETFs.

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High-Frequency Trading: Is It The New Normal?

Banking 2020

Animation aside, that would probably be Moneyball , an absorbing analysis of the moves made by Oakland As manager Billy Beane to rely more on technology-driven data than old-school scouting to put together his 2002 roster. To be clear, it’s not as if the regulatory bodies have kept their hands completely off this market.

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This Week In Insurance Tech: AIG Plans For Tech Investments, State Farm’s Smart Home Patent, Zesty.ai Opens AI Research Lab In Montreal

CB Insights

Eos Venture Partners and IQ Capital Partners also participated in the round. private equity round led by Long Arc Capital and BPI France. Talege , a Reno, Nevada-based digital insurance platform, raised a $5M Series A led by Merus Capital. Cover Genius partners with auto dealer management system. Oakland-based Zesty.ai

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High-Frequency Trading: Is It The New Normal?

Banking 2020

Animation aside, that would probably be Moneyball , an absorbing analysis of the moves made by Oakland As manager Billy Beane to rely more on technology-driven data than old-school scouting to put together his 2002 roster. To be clear, it’s not as if the regulatory bodies have kept their hands completely off this market.

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