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Increasing Diversity in the Refining and Petrochemical Industries

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The association continues to act as a leading voice, educating policymakers and the public on the value these industries provide the nation and the world. According to a recent S&P Global report , boards of oil and gas companies in 2019 only comprised 14% women. Growth Through Diversity.

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Beautycounter Embraces D2C Innovation With Purpose

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No matter how innovative they are, companies still need to get paid. And not many companies this year have combined business model creativity with payments innovation more than Beautycounter. While all the innovations and the business awards are nice to have, Renfrew is most proud of her work as a beauty industry activist.

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Banking Innovation Enters New Era; Consolidation Now The Rule

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FIS and Worldpay combined in mid-2019, Fiserv and First Data combined shortly thereafter and Worldline SA purchased Ingenico earlier this year. What makes the current developments so interesting and exciting is that “we're just seeing that they're at the end of the innovation growth cycle,” he explained.

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Western Union: Emerging Market GDP, Innovation Depend On Remittances

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They have helped smooth COVID-19 pandemic-induced economic shocks, increased the resilience of developing nations throughout 2020, and they present a potential lifeline for recovery in 2021 and beyond. It links individuals worldwide, but it also has the effect of contributing to economic, social and political interdependence between nations.

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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

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But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. Between 2008 and 2019, the DVD rentals market dropped like a stone. The one thing PYMNTS has heard consistently in the 10 studies of a national sample of more than 25,000 U.S.

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On National Burrito Day, Chipotle Serves Up Signs Of QSR Innovation

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As far as made-up, non-holiday holidays go, you could probably do worse than National Burrito Day , which takes place on Thursday (April 4). The QSR plans to open up to 155 new restaurants in 2019, part of a push to solve what Niccol called the “No. A “few dozen more” such lanes in 2019. Chipotle’s Digital Gains.

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2019: Big Payment, Commerce And Tech IPOs Loom On The Horizon

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But relatively high stock prices and access to more capital remain prime temptations, and there is little doubt that 2019 will bring more than few exciting — and telling — IPOs. An IPO reportedly could happen in the second half of 2019. Securities and Exchange Commission that sets the stage for it to go public.

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