Sentences with phrase «better financial system»

We're on a journey to upgrade the world to a better financial system and this is one more milestone on the way there.

Our mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

He is also an avid sportsman and rugby enthusiast, and is equally excited to enter the world of digital currency, upgrading the world to a better financial system.

Our mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

McKibben: Well the financial system, the energy system and the agricultural system share enormous similarities, it seems to me.

In a recent note to clients, Eric Sprott, the head of Sprott Asset Management, raised questions on «how well the financial system can cope in a relentless low - to - no - yield environment for bonds.»

Not exact matches

The banks got most of the money when the U.S. financial system imploded in 2008 and it didn't work that well.

Economists such as Carleton University professor Frances Woolley note that we've moved to this rebate system because everyone wins: well - off students with mediocre grades (who wouldn't have gotten into university at all back when I went) are now effectively subsidizing the smart kids and the ones who need financial aid.

In this context, «hard» business applications are such things as manufacturing and financial management software from companies like SAP and Oracle, and the databases that underly those applications as well as transactional systems that — should they fail — cost companies big money.

Fortunately today, with modern computer technology, it's easier than ever to set up a management information system that enables you to get the financial numbers you need to make better business decisions.

You will need everything from a well - furnished reception area and customer - friendly employees to reliable accounting software, a fax machine and an efficient system for carrying out financial transactions whether in the form of physical cash, checks or credit cards.

Turkish women entrepreneurs, especially in the country's less - developed eastern half, need better support systems in their families and adequate financial opportunity, Pulatkonak says.

And no less than President Barack Obama said Canada had proven itself to be «a pretty good manager of the financial system and the economy in ways that we haven't always been here in the United States.»

The good news is that Federal Reserve staff carefully monitors the financial system for exactly these kinds of vulnerabilities.

FactSet Research Systems 100 Best Companies rank: 89 The financial services company based in Norwalk, Conn. has an employee stock purchase plan that provides its workers with a 15 % discount.

By now, perceived flaws in that system have been well - documented, and much of that documentation — understandably — has focused on economic and financial issues.

Unregulated, and closed to investment from all but the very rich and very well connected, they're famous for their robust returns, but more infamous for their spectacular busts, their managers» extravagant new - gilded - age lifestyles, and their influence, real and imagined, on the workings of the financial system.

Before incorrectly blaming the Fed and the ECB for their allegedly ineffective monetary policies, investment strategists would do well to reflect on the depressive impact of an unreasonable haste to balance budgets, and on political leaders» inability to strengthen the financial systems (in the U.S. and in Europe) and to negotiate a better balanced world economy.

They want to unbundle a financial system grown «too interconnected to fail,» and they prescribe solutions for the global good in a world where the G20 outstrips the G8 (including an IMF reorganization to reflect that shift in the balance of power).

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Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

If I was a financial institution, there are many merchants I would refuse to provide service until they better secured their payment system and used chip - enabled terminals.

It acquired Wellcentive in 2016, giving it an informatics platform to help organizations better aggregate and analyze clinical, claims, and financial data across hospital and health systems.

«And then, how do we get more women [involved]... It's my intuition that if women are equally involved in designing the new financial system it will be much better for society.»

After all, liquidity is the lifeblood of the world economy and the result of a well - functioning financial system.

The effect of transfer payments to the financial sector — as well as the $ 5.3 trillion increase in U.S. Treasury debt from taking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac onto the public balance sheet — is to support asset prices (above all those of the banking system), not inflate commodity prices and wages.

To me, this is a situation where the reduction in risk to the financial system from the better management of foreign exchange settlement risk greatly outweighs any concerns about the impact on the efficiency of a payments system.

That puts us in the top 20 % of all US - based franchisors — even better, the Franchise 500 is a purely objective ranking of businesses that use the franchise model based on financial strength, stability growth rate, and size of the system, not a sponsored ranking that requires a «token sponsorship fee.»

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

To conclude, over the past decade and in a very volatile world, Australia has achieved the inflation target, avoided a major economic downturn, seen remarkably little variability in real economic activity in the face of enormous shocks, experienced a fairly low average rate of unemployment, and had a stable financial system as well.

Tiff is a well - known expert in monetary and financial systems and has contributed articles to academic journals, as well as providing chapters and commentaries on monetary and financial sector policy and international economics in books and conference proceedings.

They say the two have bonded over ways the financial system can better serve average Americans.

Asia's financial systems functioned relatively well during the global financial crisis in 2008 — 09.

The fact that Australia has well - developed markets in a wide range of products suggests well - balanced development of the Australian financial system.

This area covers policies and regulations, such as prudential or consumer regulations, as well as technology and other competitive pressures affecting the financial services industry, financial markets and the financial system as a whole, and their ability to effectively perform their core economic functions.

In «Opening up New Trade Routes for Financial Services: Canada's Priorities,» authors Daniel Schwanen, Dan Ciuriak and Jeremy Kronick provide, for the first time, a ranking system to assess the best potential markets for Canadian financial services firms to either deliver services directly across borders or deliver them by investing and operating in thoseFinancial Services: Canada's Priorities,» authors Daniel Schwanen, Dan Ciuriak and Jeremy Kronick provide, for the first time, a ranking system to assess the best potential markets for Canadian financial services firms to either deliver services directly across borders or deliver them by investing and operating in thosefinancial services firms to either deliver services directly across borders or deliver them by investing and operating in those markets.

«Larry is deeply concerned with the plight of low - and moderate - income households and would work creatively using the tools available to him to try to make the financial system work better for them.»

The best practice is to implement a system that tracks both non-financial and financial covenants and a system that creates multi-person approvals and workflows.

We believe that decentralised digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum will fundamentally change how the world views and uses money: cheaper, faster and safer transactions; more privacy and freedom; a significantly better user experience; and ultimately, more equality through giving everyone in the world access to the same financial system, no matter who they are or where they are from.

Historically low interest rates coupled with a well - functioning financial system and persistent, but moderating, employment growth will provide needed support.

Better macroprudential oversight might have noticed how the sale of those assets was propping up the financial system on brittle pillars, and the selling of these products could have been curbed before disaster struck.

The mechanisms that should have prevented this outcome have broken down, and as a result there's no longer much reason to think Bitcoin can actually be better than the existing financial system.

A better approach: The global financial system is increasingly unstable and fragile, more so than in 2008.

Certainly, our financial system held up comparatively well in the 2008 crisis, and lots has been done, but we have shortcomings still to address.

Even better, the Franchise 500 is a purely objective ranking of businesses that use the franchise model based on financial strength, stability growth rate, and size of system, not a sponsored ranking that requires a «token sponsorship fee.»

Certainly, our financial system held up comparatively well in the 2008 crisis, and lots has been done, but...

When the International Monetary Fund last reviewed Canada's financial system in 2014, it recommended we do better in managing federal - provincial co-ordination around systemic risk oversight, and improve systemic risk management in capital markets.

-- You can convince your VCs of reviewing on a monthly base only those metrics that will measure progress more accurately at this stage, instead of all the financial data which is not relevant — You can set up the right financial systems / software to help measure basic financial information, and allow your VC access to additional financial figures every quarter or by request If none of these work: — You can try convincing your VC of using the right metrics as well as the financial ones, and to be measured by a mix of both — You can hire a seasoned part - time CFO who can at least free you of the hurdle of putting the numbers together

Buffett has said he would do so as long as he could see a good chance to make money on a given deal — and on the condition Berkshire gets paid upfront by its trading partner, eliminating any of the counterparty risk that nearly helped bring down the financial system in 2008.

Global Salon Global Finance sat down recently with Andrew Spindler, president and CEO of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, which has spread the gospel of sound financial systems to the developing world for the better part of a quarter of aFinancial Services Volunteer Corps, which has spread the gospel of sound financial systems to the developing world for the better part of a quarter of afinancial systems to the developing world for the better part of a quarter of a century.