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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Amazon is planning to build a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub near Boston that will result in the creation of 200 tech and manufacturing jobs, Amazon announced in a press release Wednesday (Nov. 6). Tye Brady, chief technologist at Amazon Robotics, said the new hub will speed-up innovation and will be a “world-class facility, where our teams can design, build, program, and ship our robots, all under the same roof.”.

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CFA Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

This book is a succinct but comprehensive review of behavioral finance and how investors and practitioners can compensate for their biases to improve their financial decision making.

Finance 52

Finance Economics 52

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The Bank of Thailand has recently cut its benchmark interest rate again. Down by a quarter-percentage point, the key rate is now at 1.25%. It was the country's second cut in three months to rein in the stronger Baht, which has gained more than 8% again the US dollar in the past year. The stronger Baht had an impact on exports and the country’s economy.

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

People in the business community are beginning to hear rumblings, grumblings and have seen recent media attention given to the ?impending doom of an economic slowdown. Following the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009, the U.S. economy has enjoyed growth over the past decade making it the second-longest economic expansion in our nation’s history.

Economics 52

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Speaker: Ashley Harlan, MBA

What if your role as a fractional CFO went beyond operational support to actively shaping the future of your clients’ businesses? 💼 ✨ In this session, discover how fractional finance professionals can position themselves as architects of growth, guiding their clients toward sustainable success and preparing them for full-time financial leadership.

CFO

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

A relentless focus on customer experience and simplifying complexity are the defining characteristics of the most valuable companies in the world today. It’s a concept Rob Orgel, now the new president and chief operating officer at Flywire , told Karen Webster was foundational to his decade-long career at Apple — where he was part of the leadership team that developed, rolled out and grew the Apple Pay business.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The Philippine’s Q3 GDP grew 6.2% year-on-year, remaining one of the fastest growing economies in Asia. The growth was fueled by stronger government spending, slower inflation and an increase in agricultural output. However, the growth momentum might be hard to sustain as uncertainties such as the US-China trade tension remains. The country’s growth target for the year is 6-7%, which needs a 6.7% growth in Q4 to meet the lower end of it, said Economic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia.

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Anaplan

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As a sales leader, you are asked to hold a tremendous amount of knowledge about the deals in your pipeline. With each rep and each territory, you need enough information to estimate deal maturity and the likelihood of deals closing.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

U.S. homeowners’ decision to stay in their homes longer is keeping much-needed inventory off the real estate market, causing a slip in home sales. New analysis by Redfin found that homeowners around the country are typically staying in their homes for 13 years, five years longer than they did in 2010. “If people aren’t moving on, there just are fewer and fewer homes available for new home buyers,” said Daryl Fairweather, Redfin’s chief economist.

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CFA Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

What does it take to succeed in business and investing?

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Touted as a disrupting or a frontier technology, AI has a glittering wrap around it. While PwC estimated US$15.7 trillion of economic potential of the technology in 2030 , CFOs in Singapore are implementing AI or have plans to do so in the near future for benefits including increased productivity, better decision-making capabilities, and enhanced processes.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Visa has released a statement saying Tencent’s announcement that it will support international card schemes in its mobile wallet is “a great step forward” for the payments industry. “Visa believes this is a great step forward, both for consumers travelling to China and the overall payments industry. In a truly global commerce environment, collaboration is essential to provide consumers with a seamless payments experience,” Visa said in a release. .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Coca-Cola’s supply chain operations are run by an IT firm called Coke One North America (CONA), and the company recently had such a successful run with blockchain software provider SAP that it’s going to expand the program from two to 70 manufacturers, according to reports. . Those manufacturers deliver about 160,000 bottles a day. The purpose of the blockchain push was to help improve distribution and allow the manufacturers access to others’ orders and specifications. .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

The VP of Google Health has revealed that his focus for the division is on its search capabilities. Speaking at HLTH, a health care conference in Las Vegas, David Feinberg said that Google Health wants to make it easier for doctors to search medical records, as well as boost the quality of health-related search results across Google and YouTube. In 2018, Google hired Feinberg to lead the company’s expansion into the healthcare space.

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Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

Investments

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Walmart has introduced a new program called Delivery Unlimited in 1,400 of its stores. Customers who want to order groceries from Walmart without having to pay a per-delivery fee every time have the option of paying $98 a year or $12.95 a month, according to the company. “That means shopping has never been easier or come at a better value — order your full grocery list plus anything you may need for the week ahead (like that toy you forgot for the birthday party this weekend!

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

While there is little good to be said about criminal fraudsters who plague merchants by stealing credentials to snag goods with absolutely no intention of ever paying for them, they at least have the merit of being a fairly homogeneous group in terms of intention. The goal is to steal as much and as often as they possibly can. Fraud is their profession.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Digital identities are flexibly changing forms as they gain ubiquity. Consumers around the world log in to eBay with their Facebook profiles, purchase lunches with Apple Pay and in some cases pay their taxes or register to vote with government-provided digital identities. Many expanding technologies raise ethical implementation concerns, and digital ID’s extraordinary potential means coordinating clear and internationally accepted guidelines is increasingly necessary.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

The US dollar index could fall to as low as 85 as the Fed expands its balance sheet by buying more bond assets, Mohammed Apabhai, head of Asia Pacific trading strategies group at Citi was quoted as saying in a recent CNBC report. The bank’s latest projection of the dollar index falls into the neighborhood of 85 to the high 80s while 85 is a “historical support level” for the greenback, he was citing as saying in the report.

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Foreign Exchange Marketing Cash Management Treasury 52

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

Accounting

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

The results of the GCI 4.0 in 2019 reveal that, on average, most economies continue to be far from the competitiveness “frontier”—the aggregate ideal across all factors of competitiveness. The report demonstrates that 10 years on from the financial crisis, while central banks have injected nearly 10 trillion dollars into the global economy, productivity-enhancing investments such as new infrastructure, R&D and skills development in the current and future workforce have been suboptimal.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Goldman Sachs said it doled out about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple -branded credit card, Bloomberg reported on Friday (Nov. 1). . According to regulatory filings made public this week, Apple Card? customers had $736 million in loan balances at the end of September, though it’s not clear how that compares with other credit cards, as Bloomberg said banks do not break out performance by individual cards.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is offering a course to help entrepreneurs better understand blockchain technology and cryptocurrency companies, according to a report by CNBC. The firm was founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, and it has been one of the most active firms in the space, creating a $350 million fund dedicated to crypto investing.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Goldman Sachs said it doled out about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple -branded credit card, Bloomberg reported on Friday (Nov. 1). . According to regulatory filings made public this week, Apple Card? customers had $736 million in loan balances at the end of September, though it’s not clear how that compares with other credit cards, as Bloomberg said banks do not break out performance by individual cards.

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Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.

Accounting

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Amazon has struggled with preventing counterfeit goods from infiltrating its marketplace. In the company’s ongoing efforts to prevent fraud on its site, Amazon announced a new program, Intellectual Property Accelerator, last month to help sellers make sure their products won’t be copied or counterfeited. From counterfeiting to identity theft to phishing attacks, digital fraud takes many forms — and online shopping continues to make consumers and merchants vulnerable to such attacks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

To change the status quo — to upend the way it’s always been done — the mantra goes, “think outside the box.”. Or in payments, think beyond the rails. To that end, Alan Koenigsberg, global head of new payment flows at Visa Business Solutions , said in a Masterclass interview with Karen Webster that the B2B space represents a landscape ripe with opportunity.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Earlier studies found a surprising lack of both consumer and merchant awareness about the European Union’s Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and second Payment Services Directive ( PSD2 ) regulations. Post-SCA deadline, a lack of readiness persists. SCA awareness is thankfully high among the payment providers tasked with executing and communicating the mandates to businesses and consumers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

It has happened to almost everyone. The bill comes in the mail — or maybe via email reminder — and the customer says, “Oh, I have to pay this,” then puts the bill down on their kitchen table or desk. Days pass, stuff piles up and, before the customer knows it, the due date has come and gone. Now, they owe the original bill, plus the late fee. Amazon Pay Vice President Patrick Gauthier told Karen Webster in a recent interview that billing is one of those areas in which, once the company put a lit

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