Month: January 2018
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Private equity sees disruption through emerging technologies
Private equity firms have more opportunity for partnerships Competition drives the evolution of operating resources NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — As the private equity (PE) market continues to evolve 10 years after its 2007 peak, firms are seeing that the implementation of digital technologies have a dramatic impact on the ways that PE firms organize and…
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Early Coinbase And Ripple Investor Injects $57.5M Into Uphold To Advance Crypto Protection
Uphold Partners with Greg Kidd to Increase Loss Assurance and Crypto Protection to Industry-Leading Levels SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Uphold, the digital money platform, today announced that it has entered into a $57.5 million partnership with Greg Kidd, investor in Ripple, Square, Coinbase and others, to increase its loss assurance for consumers to around 20% of total current crypto…
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Asset Protection for Cryptocurrency Offshore
Structure Cryptocurrency Offshore – The Only Tax Rules Compliant and Double Tax Agreements Non-Reporting and Excluded Account The pension regime is very important internationally and one thing the OECD organization has done amazingly well is Double Tax Agreements. They have come out with an amendment to the OECD model double tax agreement that introduces a…
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Itaú Private Bank Opens Bahamas Trading Desk
Itaú Private Bank, from a leading position in the Brazil domestic market, has launched a new Bahamas-based trading desk to help Brazilians invest offshore. In addition to investing US $25 million in technology, Itaú has strengthened the team of advisors in Zurich and Miami and now launches a new trading desk aimed at fostering offshore…
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Davos: Chinese proposal for the common good
BEIJING, Jan. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — A news report by China.org.cn on Chinese proposal for meeting global challenges and creating a better world: The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) has opened in Davos, Switzerland. Government leaders, politicians, entrepreneurs, economists and scholars are meeting together at the world’s highest-level economic forum to explore the key theme of “Creating a…
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2018 Global Talent Competitiveness Index: United States Ranks Third
Washington D.C. And San Francisco In Top 10 Of City Rankings for Global Talent JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The 2018 Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) report found that the United States ranks third in the world for talent competitiveness, surpassed only by Switzerland and Singapore. The report, produced by the world’s leading workforce solutions provider, the Adecco Group, together with…
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The World Bank’s incoherent approach to taxes
The World Bank should revise its Doing Business report to bring coherence to its work on taxes. The World Bank’s Doing Business report came under fire last week for its alleged political bias against Chile. Doing Business is a sort of international competitiveness ranking. It measures on an annual basis the ease of doing business…
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TipRanks Identifies the Top 20 Analysts of 2017
NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — TipRanks, the world’s leading analyst ranking service, has identified the Top 20 Wall Street analysts of 2017. The ranking was based on the analysts’ ability to generate return with their stock ratings and price targets. TipRanks’ algorithms calculated the average return and statistical significance of each rating, as well as the…