Sentences with phrase «as middlemen as»

Brokers serve as middlemen as they find loans for clients from various lenders but do not finance the loan directly.

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The middleman can be a merchant who purchases the goods and then resells them, or they can be an agent who acts as a broker but doesn't take title to the stuff.

The Slingbox serves as a middleman between your DVR and your TV by plugging into both.

Bycutting out the middlemen, these farmers reap as much as 50 cents extra per pound.They're people like Don Miguel Sifontes in El Salvador.

It was a smart move, because it let Apple take advantage of growing interest in disintermediation — the removal of traditional middlemen, such as retailers, from the buying and selling equation.

Mint Chip, which eliminates those middlemen, is meant as a digital cash equivalent, where value can be transferred directly from person to person without needing to identify either party.

Much is siphoned off by middlemen in the export country, known to Latin American farmers as «coyotes,» who offer the lowest possibleprice - leaving some 20 million coffee farmers trapped in poverty.

These studios controlled the financial and technical resources necessary to create content and, as a result, had enormous leverage over distributors: the movie theaters, television channels, video sellers, and other middlemen who delivered entertainment to consumers.

FT's move toward direct access cuts out Apple as middleman and highlights fight for control of lucrative consumer information.

It's an industry of people who transform themselves into uninvited middlemen — either as a form of reseller or, depending on your perspective, a parasite.

They've taken out the middlemen and added costs of showrooms and as a result, offer an often superior mattress for less money and less hassle than you'd find in a brick - and - mortar store.

These venture - backed platforms have revealed themselves simply as an injected middleman taking away direct client traffic to SMBs and slowly becoming their biggest competition.

He added that ICOs backed by real assets would allow companies to circumvent much of the Wall Street middleman apparatuses, such as the army of investment bankers and venture capitalists, and sell directly to would - be stakeholders.

Basically, it acts as the middleman between your browser and the website or app you actually want to visit.

The other key middlemen for Bell are his brokers, the people who handle the paperwork and act as shipping supervisors.

His 15 - year - old company serves as the middleman between 600 manufacturers and 1,800 retail stores, including L.L. Bean.

Whether a company is acting as a middleman and connecting industries with certain audiences or directly interacting with its own target market to create effective, personalized content, niches are constantly being revealed.

The main feature of the movement, as described in the story, is an attempt to eliminate or at least minimize the role of middlemen by reconnecting producers and consumers.

That could have a domino effect on the other middlemen between Mylan and the patient, such as drug distributors, pharmacy benefit managers, and pharmacies, who might also have to settle for less revenue per EpiPen sale.

McCoy started calling manufacturers and distributors to see if he could sell cheaper ink and toner online as a middleman.

Shares in healthcare companies that act as middlemen, like insurers and pharmacy benefit managers, fell when the news was first announced that the three companies would work together.

Think of these as insurance payments without the middleman.

Zenefits offers human resources software for free to businesses and makes money acting as a health insurance broker, working as the middleman between businesses and insurance providers.

But by 2007, Barinskiy and Kravitz realized that they could make more money selling customer information directly to agents, rather than acting as a middleman.

Cut out middleman, such as pharmacy benefits managers, to lower costs?

In a video posted to Youtube on December 12, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu predicted that banks would eventually disappear once their role as financial middlemen became redundant, adding that this obsolescence might result from market changes wrought by cryptocurrencies, namely bitcoin.

Backers say it could cut out the middleman and help fight corruption, as the process by which the data is secured makes it virtually impossible to tamper with.

And, of course, the many online work intermediation platforms such as Upwork, Fiverr, Task Rabbit, Work Market, etc. are middlemen.

Rather than acting as a middleman, DiversyFund manages all of its real estate projects from start to finish.

Bottom Line: Ripple runs on many of the same principles of Bitcoin, but for a different purpose: to serve as the middleman for all global FX transactions.

Instead, they buy Member Dependent Notes, and LendingClub acts as the middleman in the process of creating loan offers.

As the company describes in its report on the disruption of Uber, «Wherever a middleman stands astride a market of service providers and consumers taking a cut for matchmaking and managing data, there is huge potential for disruption.»

PricewaterhouseCoopers, UBS and other Western banks and accounting firms play a key role as middlemen in helping Chinese clients set up trusts and companies in the British Virgin Islands, Samoa and other offshore centers usually associated with hidden wealth, the records show.

As a direct funding source, BFS Capital eliminates the middleman in the funding process and delivers the retail store financial solution that is right for you.

These digital assets pose an interesting possibility insofar as they provide increased transparency and remove the middleman, and as a result, at...

Assuming you used a discount brokerage house like Charles Schwab and paid about $ 9 per trade, you'd be looking at a $ 63 fee right off the bat, and no costs thereafter as you collected your big oil dividends without any interference from a third - party middleman.

It stands as a middleman between large US homewares brands and the third - party manufacturers in China that make wares for them.

The underwriters are just big investment banks such as Citi Group, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan that acts as the middleman / salesman between the company and the average investors.

By acting as a middleman and reseller, Grainger enables its customers to maintain optimal inventory levels of essential but often seldom - used products.

Originally conceptualized as a way to provide value and security for cryptocurrencies without a meddlesome middleman, like a bank or government, blockchain technology is now making inroads in...

In order to convert from e.g. Yen to Euro, one must first convert from Yen to USD and then USD to Euro (taking the USD as the «middleman»).

So again, this is as you and I talked from a financial repression perspective, this is a very empowering concept because it's putting control back in the hands of individuals and really away from governments and big companies because they're not needed as the middleman.

FRA: Yes, I can see the power of blockchain technology as providing decentralized platform to address some of those challenges of inequality by eliminating the middleman, for example, in transactions or services.

The company does not make these products; it acts strictly as a middleman.

And in that tack of semantics, of loving God above all things, of obeying him and blindly doing his will, we will continue to discriminate and to fight holy wars and to hear men with two faces tell us that they are His middlemen and to pander for politicians and to condemn science, which is merely the study of His design, as we have for centuries.

These corporate middlemen have as much power over the small farmers of America as they do over sovereign nations in the market to purchase grain.

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As a Born - Again Christina there is no middleman in - between me and the Lord, my relationship is direct with Christ!

They became middlemen in a most profitable trade which attracted ever greater numbers for commerce and the propagation of their faith, and as the new traders came to China many Muslim communities were established in the southeast and northwest parts of the country.

CMP used two people to pose as procurement middlemen to expose the allegedly criminal trade in fetal body parts and tissue.