Sentences with phrase «financial innovation when»

Now is a unique time of financial innovation when customers can fund entrepreneurs» plans.

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When lawyers, MBAs and financial managers run your industry and your lobbyists are ex-Senators, understanding technology and innovation is not one of your core capabilities.

Christensen shows that when leaders act in their company's best short - term financial interests — when they do exactly what they're supposed to do — they tend to reject innovation and succumb to disruptive competitors.

Remember back to the financial crisis, when President Obama launched a program to create jobs through green innovation, a kind of environmental New Deal?

While a trailblazer in tech development, Japan and its authorities are notoriously conservative when it comes to financial innovation.

According to Joe Nocera, PwC US» cybersecurity & privacy financial services industry leader, as companies continue to move towards greater digitisation and innovation (especially when it comes to cloud and data analytics capabilities), they also increase the attack footprint and points of potential vulnerability.

Increased innovation would benefit consumers, by giving them additional choices, more convenience, greater access to capital and lower costs when choosing financial products.

When asked, «What is the biggest barrier to innovation in Canada's financial sector?»

«We typically do our best work when we can pull together the best people from around the world, put them on a small team in one place and they can do research and innovation,» Mr Smith told The Australian Financial Review on the sidelines of the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week.

They found that companies that prioritized innovation saw greater financial gains when women were part of the top leadership ranks.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

[span style = «font - size: 12.16 px; line - height: 15.808 px;»] It began with little fanfare when Maureen Jensen, the first woman to be nominated as chairwoman and chief executive officer of the Ontario Securities Commission, announced plans in late September to create the first innovation hub by a Canadian securities regulator to help financial technology companies navigate the OSC's regulatory framework.

Having extraordinary financial ratings and a history of more than 120 years in the life insurance industry, Minnesota Life stands among even the giants in the industry when it comes to affordability and innovation of products.

In recent years, the USPTO has come under increasing scrutiny over the quality of its patent examinations.1 The growing push for reform of the patent system is fueled by the rapid rise of technology, financial services, telecommunications, and other innovations driving the information economy, all straining the USPTO's ability to evaluate and issue quality patents.2 Problems with patent quality occur when the Patent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public domain.

The Cboe President hits the nail on the head when he explains, «This approach will allow investors to gain exposure to more mature cryptocurrencies through ETPs without the additional complications and risks of the spot market and help to ensure that American capital markets remain fertile ground for capital formation and financial innovation.»

While regulatory approval for bitcoin as a legal payment method in Kenya may still be a long way off, the debate shows people are beginning to see bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as an agent of change and innovation when it comes to financial services.

While a trailblazer in tech development, Japan and its authorities are notoriously conservative when it comes to financial innovation.

He also told me that banks and financial firms are trying to be more flexible when they recruit and have started to adopt the innovation techniques of tech start - ups.