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AWS Financial Services Competency status serves as a guide for GFT’s clients

Bobsguide

Cloud has moved from leading edge to the baseline of banking success. A recent GFT survey revealed that 95% of banks adopt cloud to improve time to market, while 86% of them do it to improve innovation and scalability. Although these objectives might seem ambitious, they are achievable if the transition to cloud is regarded as an opportunity to re-imagine systems and applications.

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Revealed: Barclays avoids almost £2bn in tax via Luxembourg scheme

TheGuardian

Exclusive: Arrangement has allowed bank to earn billions of pounds nearly tax-free for over 12 years Barclays has avoided nearly £2bn in tax via a lucrative arrangement in Luxembourg that allowed it to pay less than 1% on profits in the tax haven for more than a decade. A Guardian analysis of Barclays’ tax bills shows it is still benefiting from a controversial decision in 2009 , in which it booked profits from the $15.2bn sale of a fund management business in Luxembourg rather than in the UK wh

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Corporate America buckles down for culture war on Roe v Wade

TheGuardian

Republicans are mulling retaliation against firms providing benefits such as travel assistance for employees seeking abortion After a supreme court decision that overturns Roe v Wade was leaked and signaled the impending end of federal constitutional protection for abortions, a trickle of companies have slowly started to announce policies that provide abortion access for their employees.

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