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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

This early encouragement played a key role in shaping my future, as it introduced me to the world of business and numbers. Understand that as a CFO, your role is not just about numbers but about influencing and guiding the organisation’s financial health and strategy. What advice would you give to someone aspiring to be a CFO?

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DECEMBER 16, 2018

Underwood said all five companies had mobile apps that had a well-known security vulnerability that enabled hackers to intercept private data including passwords, social security numbers, credit card account numbers and bank account information.

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APRIL 3, 2025

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has tripled, and the number of investors has increased tenfold. Investment-Friendly Rules To strengthen the business climate, Saudi Arabia has enacted a number of regulatory reforms, including a new investment law that came into effect in February.

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APRIL 1, 2020

As individuals were beginning to seek COVID-19 benefits, hackers disrupted Italy’s Social Security internet site, per the leader of the welfare agency. Tridico said he notified authorities about the incident, which has brought into question the security of the country’s online infrastructure as it grapples with the COVID-19 crisis. “In

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

billion records last year, calling it “the worst year on record” and noting that the number of records exposed was 284 percent higher than in 2018. The information and healthcare sectors suffered the highest number of breaches, the report found. Cisco Uses IoT Security To Build Smart Cities. About The Tracker .

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MARCH 1, 2018

Here are the numbers: 270 million | Number of bank accounts opened using the Aadhaar payments app, according to analyst estimates, meaning more transacting and banking is being done outside the traditional system. 25 | Number of hours it can take for SMBs to manually prepare and submit paperwork for the business lending process.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

Talk of a venture capital plummet continues to grow, particularly in Europe, where new data from Consultancy Europe revealed that the number of venture capital deals for startups across the continent has declined every quarter since Q1 2019. based small business lending platform iwoca, which secured $131.45 earlier this year.

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MARCH 6, 2020

A 2018 survey found that 50 percent of IT professionals labeled security among the most-pressing issues affecting their API strategies, and API-related services are expected to become those hackers most frequently attack by 2022. . Companies, therefore, must work to identify and track APIs’ use and secure them against key threats.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

Concerns over security breaches and data privacy remain high, however, so providers will need to be sure users are properly protected from all manners of fraud as this ecosystem grows. IoT devices still have a number of security weaknesses that providers must address as the technology becomes a larger part of consumers’ daily lives.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 25, 2023

Newsletter Sign-up The Logistics Report Top news and in-depth analysis on the world of logistics, from supply chain to transport and technology. are securing ocean freight rates that are about one-third less than last year’s contracts, according to container shippers and retail executives. Global trade volumes fell 9.5% West Coast.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

25) that it secured $1 billion in new funds from Japan’s SoftBank and China’s Alibaba affiliate Ant. The exposed information, however, reportedly did not include password data, Social Security numbers or any financial information. In today’s top payments news, India’s mobile payments startup Paytm said on Monday (Nov.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The G-7 plans are likely to send oil prices higher (despite US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen claiming the opposite ) and reduce tanker availability, both of which will threaten India’s energy security and hurt its economy as India is the third-largest consumer and importer of oil worldwide. Russia is far from reliable in any realm.

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MARCH 23, 2016

Automaker General Motors is using feedback from the public on potential security risks to better understand its vulnerabilities and build up its cybersecurity initiatives. As the technology used to help make vehicles more connected and essentially “smarter,” so have the oncoming threats to the safety and security from cybercriminals.

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MARCH 27, 2020

The Department Of Homeland Security ( DHS ) is lengthening the enforcement deadline for REAL ID because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a statement. It sought to increase security standards for drivers’ licenses made by the states. The REAL ID launch serves as the last part of an act Congress ratified in 2005 following 9/11.

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JUNE 15, 2018

In one example germane to security and payments, ALTR has emerged from four years of stealth, with $15 million in private and institutional backing and what is being billed as the first commercial software package that it says “unleashes the security benefits of blockchain.”.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

A secure digital vehicle identity sets the foundation for a fully automatic network for usage-based transportation services," MOBI COO and Co-Founder Tram Vo said in the announcement. "We Ford and BMW co-chair the VID II Working Group, which also has the support of a number of companies, including USAA, IBM, Honda, AWS and Accenture.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Bowman said Tap to Phone could be “one of the most profound ways to reinvent the physical shopping experience,” noting that the number of sellers already using Visa’s TTP system had grown 200 percent over the past year. Touchless Uptake.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 29, 2023

In discussing his work as a young man in the 1990s in Brazil, Shellenberger writes: I can count on a single hand the number of young people who told me they wanted to remain on their family’s farm and work their parents’ land. The large majority of young people wanted to go to the city, get an education, and get a job.

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JULY 21, 2020

We were excited about reopening hotels … but sadly we are in states that are spiking so the numbers that we were starting to feel good about are reversing. In related news, the number of travelers passing through airport security checkpoints across the U.S. It’s a challenge,” he said. “We A total of 4.6

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Duncan Burgess’ “number one passion” in his role is people. He then moved to the security construction technology company ICx Technologies as division controller. After a few other job roles, he became UK finance director at taxi transport and technology company Gett in 2018. Beginning his role at Gett.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Updated minimum wage legislation in the New York State Senate and Assembly ( S3062D / A7503C ) would secure much-needed wage increases for almost 2.9 an hour and $62,400 at $15 an hour), but still short of real economic security. The greatest number of affected workers would be in NYC (Table 3), where 1.4 We estimate that 78.4%

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APRIL 2, 2019

On the flip side, these sellers don’t have the support and logistics infrastructure to efficiently sell and transport their product[s].” . “Buyers are sourcing raw materials from an array of entities, and many of the products are inconsistent and unreliable. ” Beyond Banking Struggles.

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JUNE 11, 2020

In a letter to the ridesharing companies , Douglas Ito, director of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), reminded them of the July 1 deadline to secure workers’ compensation coverage for drivers. Last fall, ride-hailing platforms were seen as an employment boon in the transportation sector.

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MARCH 1, 2020

Health tech startup Accolade , with headquarters in Seattle and Philadelphia, filed with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise $100 million for an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday (Feb. Lead book-running managers for the IPO included Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and BofA Securities. 28), according to reports. .

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Our activation at Roy Thompson Hall showcases Visa’s leading-edge payment technology, transporting consumers to the future of commerce.”. As the number of Internet of Things-enabled devices grows to 50 billion globally by 2020, payment-enabled devices in a slew of form factors will be in demand, Visa said.

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JULY 18, 2024

We sweated bricks” to secure sponsors at the beginning, said Chris Renner, Global Head of Consulting at rEvolution, a Chicago-based sports marketing agency and a founder of TOP. Local public officials control security and other essential public services. The original group included Kodak and Xerox.

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JUNE 7, 2020

passenger numbers reached 391,882 on June 4, the highest since March 22, according to the Transportation Security Administration. Demand for air travel is also showing some early signs of life. But the average daily total over the last week was still 87 percent less than during the same period a year ago, Bloomberg reported.

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APRIL 30, 2020

Transportation Department, the technology could be used to help ensure safety and help with identity management. While the fraudsters’ allegation that they’ve tapped into computer webcams are baseless, the FTC says they may include old passwords, gleaned from the breach, to try and come off more convincing. According to a study by the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

market, which currently stands at number one. In Bengaluru, India’s information technology hub, in April of this year, the local government pushed to stop Uber and Ola operations in the state until drivers secure a special license from the government. Ridesharing in India is expanding quickly.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

7), Certify said 11 percent of all transactions expensed on the Certify platform in 2018 were Uber purchases, with Starbucks coming in at number two with 4.1 This is the third year in a row that Uber has landed at number one, the company said. Looking at Q4 2018 data, Certify found that Uber secured 11.9

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The number of funding deals for startups developing Internet-of-Things technology, or IoT—as the software-connected systems are called—dropped to a six-year low of 300 deals in the second quarter, according to analytics firm PitchBook Data Inc. . billion—with notable exceptions in areas like security and connected vehicles—outpacing a 22.2%

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The firm described the contactless checkout experience as “simple and secure,” in part due to secure EMV chip technology, and one where tap and pay takes place at readers bearing the “contactless symbol” – and Chase said transactions would be done “often with no signature required.” . – are done through that method.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Leana Wen, an emergency medicine physician and a visiting professor at George Washington University, who spoke to CNN over the weekend about the deteriorating situation based on the case number count. The number of COVID-19 patients in U.S. hospitals reached record levels on Saturday evening (Nov. percentage points.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

To help with this, Target has acquired transportation and logistics technology company Grand Junction and ALDI has partnered up with Instacart in key larger markets. Gartner’s latest research is showing that security IT has no signs of slowing down. Here are the numbers: $86.4

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MARCH 23, 2020

More than a dozen state-owned financial institutions in China are offering incentives to boost consumer lending despite an increase in the number of people defaulting. Banking FinTech Finastra was hit with a security breach on Friday (March 20) and was forced to shutter key systems and send employees home.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Entitlements can include a wide range of offerings, such as access to a cloud service, number of user licenses, software support, hardware maintenance services, warranties, media access rights, or usage-based consumption rights.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Lyft is a self-described peer-to-peer marketplace focused on “revolutionizing transportation” and reducing traffic congestion in cities. For Uber, transportation is a platform feature that is central to its business, but is not its end game. Uber considers its competitors to be Amazon and Alphabet. The company reports 30.7

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