Amazon CEO on Employee Work-Life Balance

July 3, 2017
Amazon employee work-life balance | Jeff Bezos, CEO Amazon | Code Conference 2016
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Most Global Financial Services Companies Plan to Increase FinTech Partnerships, as 88% Fear Loss of Revenue to Innovators

June 2, 2017
A large majority of global banks, insurers and investment managers intend to increase their partnerships with FinTech companies over the next 3 - 5 years and expect an average return on investment of 20% on their innovation projects, according to a new PwC report Redrawing the lines: Fintech’s growing influence on Financial Services. The report, […]
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Global Political and Economic Uncertainty Create a New Breed of Digital Innovators

June 2, 2017
Two-thirds of organizations adapting their technology strategy due to unprecedented political and economic uncertainty. Despite two-thirds (64 percent) of organizations adapting their technology strategy because of unprecedented global political and economic uncertainty, 89 percent are maintaining or ramping up investment in innovation, including in digital labor. More than half (52 percent) are investing in more […]
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How Workers Born In Other Countries Support Innovation and Growth in Germany

June 2, 2017
Movinga recently completed a study which investigates the possible benefits of foreign human capital in Germany. In order to do this, research was conducted into each of the 16 federal states. The number of firms receiving venture capital, the number of patent applications, the unemployment rate, and the percentage of the state that were born […]
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Japan’s Financial Accounting Standards Foundation and IFRS Foundation Trustees Reaffirm Shared Commitment to Global Standards

June 2, 2017
In conjunction with the meeting of the IFRS Foundation’s Trustees in Tokyo, Japan, the IFRS Foundation Trustees and Japan’s Financial Accounting Standards Foundation (FASF) issued a joint statement. It reaffirms their shared commitment to the objective of a single set of high quality, global accounting standards and describes how the two organisations will work together […]
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CFTC Launches LabCFTC as Major FinTech Initiative

June 2, 2017
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved the creation of LabCFTC, a new initiative aimed at promoting responsible FinTech innovation to improve the quality, resiliency, and competitiveness of the markets the CFTC oversees. Located in New York LabCFTC will also look to accelerate CFTC engagement with FinTech and RegTech solutions that may enable […]
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Trump's Budget at Odds with Public's Priorities

June 2, 2017
An innovative survey from the University of Maryland’s Program for Public Consultation (PPC) reveals significant differences between the budget proposed in the Trump administration’s “Budget Blueprint” for 2018 and what the public recommends. The findings were released by Voice Of the People. For the top ten areas, the gaps between the spending proposals of the […]
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Spring 2017 EU Economic Forecast: Steady Growth Ahead

June 2, 2017
The European economy has entered its fifth year of recovery, which is now reaching all EU Member States. This is expected to continue at a largely steady pace this year and next. In its Spring Forecast the European Commission expects euro area GDP growth of 1.7% in 2017 and 1.8% in 2018 (1.6% and 1.8% […]
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US Mortgage Rates Slide to 5-Month Low

June 2, 2017
With a flurry of news breaking in Washington, US mortgage rates moved to the downside with the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate falling to a five-month low of 4.15%, according to Bankrate.com’s weekly national survey. The 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.25 discount and origination points. The larger jumbo 30-year fixed slid to […]
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£6.2bn Invested in Deals between Financial Services Corporates and UK SMEs Last Year

June 2, 2017
The financial services sector tops the table in deals between large organisations and UK SMEs. Since April 2016, there have been 452 deals, known to have exceeded £6.2bn. This accounts for 41% of the national total volume. Economic data, released earlier this month by law firm Bond Dickinson, explores mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and […]
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Financial Services Firms Starting to Enact Brexit Contingency Plans, but Those Voicing Intentions to Move Remain in the Minority

June 2, 2017
To date, more than a quarter of the 222 UK financial services firms monitored by the EY Brexit Tracker* have announced that they are moving some staff or part of their operations out of the UK, or that they are reviewing their domicile as a result of Brexit. Whilst firms voicing such intentions remain in […]
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