Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

This region has the kind of energy that draws people to a place and helps them and their businesses thrive. Corporate relocations and expansions—influenced by factors like affordability, low corporate tax rates, no personal income tax and a rich talent pool—have contributed to a momentum that isn’t likely to subside soon.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2019

Nordea, the biggest bank in the Nordic region, is being accused of handling millions of dollars in suspicious transactions for several years. The bank reportedly handled 700 million euros or $790 million in transactions that were questionable from 2005 to 2017. The investment firm rates Nordea at underperform.

Virgin Islands 116

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Management also stated that the CLUB Certificate Program — defined as whole loan transactions structured as tradable pass-through securities — is nearing the $1 billion mark, after having been launched less than a year ago, in December of 2017.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Small business owners have a lot on their plates today and, depending on who one asks, top concerns range from taxes to late invoice payments. Bank of America also found in a fall 2017 survey that nearly three-quarters of SMBs expect their 2017 year-end revenues to beat 2016’s figures.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

We see a lot of opportunities in those new regions. Vietnam and India were the first markets we entered, and we have seen faster than expected growth in those regions, which gives us a lot of faith in the future growth yet to come,” Ning noted. That is particularly apparent in the market for freelance technical services.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2017

According to news from a report by Canalys , smartphone shipments in India grew 23 percent year over year in Q3 2017 to reach just over 40 million units, making the country the world’s second largest smartphone market after China. India has overtaken the United States to become the world’s second largest smartphone market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Users can even receive an instant tax refund at four major airports in the country. trillion in mobile payments as of 2017, and that figure is expected to have nearly doubled to $6.31 trillion in mobile payments as of 2017, and that figure is expected to have nearly doubled to $6.31 China is expected to process $3.29

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The 2017 report , released Monday (Oct. Regional Trends. percent through 2020, led by growing global trade as B2B payment volumes in the region rise. While each region may have its own factors driving adoption of digital B2B payments, Capgemini and BNP Paribas did find commonalities in the factors preventing adoption.

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Payments Regional America Trends 124

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Despite some recent bumps, the economy has done well during President Trump’s first year in office, and tax cuts have also added to optimism among small business owners,” reflected Rohit Arora, CEO of Biz2Credit. FIs closed 1,700 branches in the 12 months ending June 2017, the publication’s analysis found, the largest one-year drop on record.

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Lending Taxes Regional Analysis 108

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

tax benefit, just above estimates of $1.33, Bloomberg reported. percent of sales, while two of Chipotle’s regions saw digital sales at greater than 10 percent of their overall mix. The restaurant reported earnings of $1.34 per share, excluding its $0.21 7) after the earnings results were released. Those numbers represented 8.6

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2018

For China, the tax hikes target everything from soybeans to aircrafts. Walmart recently announced it would be using WeChat Pay at all of its stores in China’s western region. Semir will stock the 300 Children’s Place locations with apparel, footwear and accessories and operate the brand’s regional eCommerce business.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The world of global payments is evolving rapidly — driven by an increasingly global economy, expanding consumer buying power in regions like Asia and South America, rising adoption of digital payment methods and increasing concerns over security and transparency. And we expect more of the same in 2017. The opportunity is very real.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The former Soviet Union republic may be known for manufacturing tractors, but the region has its eye on becoming Eastern Europe’s Silicon Valley. Companies in Belarus are exempt from all corporate taxes, including value-added tax and profit, real estate and land taxes. million people.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The region is also home to an active and fast-growing startup scene. Brussels the third wealthiest region in terms of GDP per capita due to this number being twice as high as the European average. The city was ranked as a strong innovator by the latest edition of the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS 2016).

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FICO

MAY 25, 2017

million digital records exposed the dark deeds of dirty money and tax evasion and burst the bubble of pretense that the world is effective at dealing with corruption. One in five banks in Asia Pacific say that they expect tax evasion to increase 100 to 500 percent over last year’s levels according to a recent poll by FICO.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2018

After cementing its presence in Europe during 2017, Emailage turns its focus to the Asia-Pacific region for 2018 expansion. CRO Manoel Coelho told PYMNTS that the startup already has customers in the region despite its lack of a direct presence, so the opportunity for growth there is ripe.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2018

Emailage stopped almost twice as much potential fraud in 2017 as in the previous year. That’s according to Emailage’s email risk assessment results from 2017, which brings together data from across customers’ transactions from the startup’s entire network. With $180 billion in transactions running through the system, $1.8

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

Demonetization was launched in India in an effort to crack down on the nation’s underground economy, boost tax revenues and encourage the transition to a digital banking infrastructure. In fact, the number of mobile wallets in India grew by 433 percent between 2015 and 2017. percent by 2021. India spent $1.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Ernest Chew, who heads the British lender’s capital goods and automotive investment banking team in the region, will join Carro as its chief financial officer in February,” the news service said, citing unnamed sources. Automotive sales are increasing going digital — and more consumers are buying more used products of all types online.

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Nashville Tennessee Philadelphia Branding 130

PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the business of selling cannabis went mostly underground. PYMNTS: What are greenRush’s 2017 goals? PW: We have aggressive 2017 goals — we’re laser-focused on territory expansion and acquiring consumers and retailers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

Merchants’ financial institutions (FIs) or payment processors are no doubt well aware that adhering to today’s stricter anti-money laundering (AML) regulations, tax evasion laws and economic sanctions — while simultaneously combatting cyber fraud — all add to these transactions’ complexity and expense.

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BankUnderground

JANUARY 26, 2023

Changes in the UK housing market trends since the start of the pandemic To analyse trends in the housing markets during the pandemic, we examine differences in growth rates of housing prices across different regions of the UK, as well as across different types of housing (such as flats versus detached, semi-detached or terraced houses).

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Regional Analysis Trends Policies 123

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

For merchants, conducting cross-border trade often means following another nation’s local rules around payment acceptance, compliance, taxes and physical requirements and a host of other factors that vary between borders. He pointed out that these rules were implemented to prevent some companies from dodging taxes and fees.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

At September 30, 2017 there were 5,737, a 16% decline. There were 166 mergers, and four new charters in the first three quarters of 2017. That yielded 291 total institutions, broken down by region. Some regions are experiencing slightly elevated non-performers from the previous year. Provision, and income taxes.

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Taxes Regional Industry Trends 60

Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2017

billion in asset company headquartered in West Virginia, providing community banking services primarily in the Eastern Panhandle and South Central regions of the state, and the Northern and Shenandoah Valley regions of Virginia. Actually, the Bank had a one-time after tax litigation settlement (from a 2002-04 event) of $6.2

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Minnesota West Virginia Virginia Iowa 60

FICO

DECEMBER 21, 2016

That means 2017 should be a risky year from a compliance standpoint. Today, it’s really only Tier 1 banks that use analytics in AML, KYC and tax compliance areas. Although businesses in tax havens are not necessarily illegal, some of the geographies involved are also hot sites for money laundering. We expect that to change.

Compliance 40

Compliance Analytics Taxes Groups 40

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

the Upper Plains region — saw a spike in small business bankruptcy rates, while Connecticut saw the largest increase in this metric in the third quarter. Looking Out For 2017. Political uncertainty will endure, the report noted, as policy surrounding taxes and immigration is headed for change. In the oil and gas space, U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

And New England isn’t the only place enjoying the autumn chill as it sets in — although we are perhaps enjoying it more colorfully with the region’s famed foliage. In all, losses to this emerging and increasingly occurring form of fraud reached $40 million in 2017, doubling the $20 million in losses reported 2015.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Though relatively new to the scene, Lookiero has grown up relatively quickly with 1 million active users on the platform across the EU and annual sales that picked up by 200 percent between 2017 and 2018, according to the firm. Once you cross the border the taxes are different, logistics are different, you have to adapt to all of that.

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BankUnderground

JUNE 8, 2022

The second approach is to estimate capital shortfalls for banks arising from the ‘stranding’ of specific sectors exposed to climate policy ( Battiston et al (2017) ). Physical risks – ie risks arising from climate change itself – are harder to quantify than transition risks.

Capital 130

Capital Policies Tools Regulation 130

PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2018

Visa, which launched its Visa Global Transit Solutions business unit late last year, said in its 2017 “ Cashless Cities ” report that on average, transit systems spend 14.5 The card originated with the Chicago Transit Authority, by far the largest transit provider in the region, the agency that operates those famous L trains.).

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Apple Chicago New York City Training 101

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

After being granted a tax ID and a bank account, Stripe Atlas provides businesses with access to the Stripe’s payment platform including Connect, Subscriptions, and Radar. This is particularly useful for businesses operating in regions outside of the US. It also allows businesses to generate 1099 tax forms for contractors.

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Online Company Retail Payments 98

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As a result, a number of mobility startups have emerged, deploying new transportation models that stand to disrupt personal car ownership in dense urban regions, and potentially in more suburban regions moving forward. Lyft is developing self-driving technology software on an open source platform, which it launched in July 2017.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Existing startups like the UK’s Revolut are also looking to expand in the region. In December 2017, Amazon’s Alexa Fund participated in its $16M Series A. India-based Open provides banking services to the region’s emerging startup scene and is focused on serving entrepreneurs.

Retail 78

Retail Cards Millennials Mobile 78

FICO

MARCH 6, 2020

Finally, the suite includes comprehensive Tax Compliance & Reporting capabilities to support FATCA and CRS requirements. When EU’s Fourth AML Directive came into force in 2017, the projected annual costs of compliance for European financial institutions crossed the $80 billion mark. Why is Anti Financial Crime so important?

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Compliance Technology Fraud Analytics 81

CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

By 2017, it had much of this codified in its own internal software. IEX received approval as a registered stock exchange in 2017 and is now looking to attract trading volume away from exchanges by letting companies list for free. In 2017, startups raised $5.6B

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Management Capital Company Marketing 78

CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

If you are confronting an industry upstart, you might look to BCG, and if you’re working on problems of regional governance in Southeast Asia, you might look to McKinsey. By 2017, that number was $800M and rising. High tax rates on corporate gains meant that the best way to spend profits was to make acquisitions.

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