Sentences with phrase «for financial tech»

The country adjacent to China has been a hotbed for financial tech innovation this year as Hong Kong has emerged as one of the global leaders within the blockchain economy.

Given the lifestyle business goal was met by the end of 2013, one and a half years after I left Corporate America, I decided to utilize my free time consulting for financial tech startups that I believed could revolutionize the industry for the better.

Not exact matches

Chief Financial Officer Akhil Johri told Reuters that United Tech expects to meet its full - year target for engine deliveries to Airbus SE and is optimistic that its suppliers can keep pace with rising engine production.

Ultimately, blockchain is leading the way for a wave of tech - based financial innovation that allows for much more efficient transactions and protection between merchants and buyers.

• SS&C, a Windsor, Calif - based financial software firm, acquired DST systems, a Kansas City - based tech firm, for $ 5.4 billion.

The company had to halt operations on Feb. 10 after it was hit with financial penalties for operating as an Internet - based tech platform rather than as a transportation company, which Taiwanese authorities have said was a misrepresentation of its business.

«I think of these as high - tech Beanie Babies or 21st - century tulips,» says Robert Hockett, a law professor at Cornell who gained notoriety after the financial crisis for proposing that cities use «eminent domain» to buy out underwater mortgages.

His motivation reportedly stems from a perception of the valley's intolerance for right - leaning politics as well as concerns around the financial impacts of regulatory scrutiny on the tech industry.

PARIS — Better information - sharing between countries, law enforcement agencies, financial services companies and the tech industry will help combat financing for the Islamic State group and al - Qaida, a senior international official said Thursday.

BC's provincial government has made a concerted effort to make it easy for U.S. tech companies to open offices in Canada, providing financial incentives and working with the federal government to expedite visas for skilled foreign workers.

To ensure all students have the opportunity to learn and succeed with Tech Trep Academy, the company has partnered with former NFL quarterback Steve Young's Forever Young Foundation to provide financial scholarships for those in need.

«Tech, consumer staples and energy have seen the strongest earnings per share (EPS) growth for the companies that have reported so far,» they added, saying financials and industrials have been the weakest.

Massive tech players like IBM and Capgemini could go on a mergers and acquisitions «shopping spree» for financial technology (fintech) start - ups next year, the chief of one such start - up has told CNBC.

The company's tech allows users to suss out doctors who are best for treating their various conditions and accommodating their financial situations through a transparency tool launched last summer.

McDerment's rationale might be personal, but he's quick to cite other reasons that other tech companies would want to stay in Canada: excellent universities, smart talent, government financial support like tax credits for R&D, and cheaper employment costs.

In September, BlackBerry investor Fairfax Financial released a letter of intent to purchase the ailing Canadian tech company for US$ 4.7 billion, but gave BlackBerry six weeks to find a better offer.

But in 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis, we started noticing that young people were doing some awfully significant things, whether in the financial world (Meredith Whitney had just made her bold call against Citigroup), in the tech world (Facebook was beginning to crank into high gear), or in other industries (Kevin Plank's apparel upstart Under Armour was giving Nike a real run for its money).

Bessant is ranked No. 1 on Institutional Investor magazine's annual Tech 50 list of financial technology leaders recognized for their achievements and innovation, and No. 3 among American Banker's «25 Most Powerful Women in Banking.»

Ruth Porat, the search giant's chief financial officer, expresses faith in her former colleague, pointing out that Georgiadis ran one of Google's most important businesses, giving her the background she'll need for «applying cutting - edge tech into all parts of Mattel's business.»

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

Like tech stocks after the dotcom bubble, it may take a while for financial stocks to regain their luster.

For many young businesses, using another company's tech to build their products makes financial sense, particularly when resources are limited.

Listed real estate firm Agency Group Australia, formerly Ausnet Financial Services, has acquired three arms of struggling tech company Servtech Global Holdings for less than $ 1 million, while also announcing a $ 3 million capital raising.

Leading the charge for Shopify's financial future is tech and finance veteran Russ Jones, who joined the company in 2011.

IBM (ibm), for example, acquired Wall Street compliance firm Promontory Financial Group late last year in a push to bring the tech company's AI platform, Watson, to banks and hedge funds.

Advantages: Tech - enabled lenders won't require you to compile endless financial records or wait weeks for a decision.

Known as the Winklevoss twins in the new tech industry, and famous both for being among the largest (if not the largest) holders of bitcoin (and because of their legendary dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook) the two men want to create a new exchange in compliance with financial laws.

In a statement, VTB said its involvement with Twitter was «solely a financial investment,» sold for a profit, one of several successful deals in the high - tech industry in that period.

Mr. Thiel, who was last in the news for his financial support of Hulk Hogan's legal fight against Gawker Media, has a slate of political views that stand out of line with most in tech, and perhaps most Americans.

MioTech, a financial tech startup with offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai, has raised $ 7 million in Series A funding to develop artificial intelligence based software for investment managers.

HONG KONG Ant Financial's rapid climb to become the world's biggest super unicorn valued by some investors at around $ 150 billion showcases investor enthusiasm for the biggest Chinese tech companies and also how quickly valuations can shift.

«The financial industry has been subject to regulation for a century, and the tech industry has largely skated by without being subject to any similar regulatory framework because it's still relatively new,» she said.

The «search for yield», i.e. for better return on financial investments than the declining interest rate, thus led to the series of bubbles & bursts: deregulated savings & loans (immediately), high - tech stocks (late 90's), mortgage derivatives — > house prices (2000's).

Although I tried hard to stay retired, I was given an offer to join Personal Capital, a financial tech startup as a consultant for 25 hours a week.

Financial Tech Consulting: In January, 2014, I began consulting for a digital wealth management firm called Personal Capital based here in San Francisco and Redwood City.

Unfortunately, the next financial catastrophe that is going hit the system, and for which the Fed is helpless to prevent, will make everyone yearn for just the tech bubble or «big short» bubble collapses.

The Financial Post article by Danny Bradbury captures it well: «Things are looking up for venture capital funding in the tech industry but in the middle [of a venture's development from startup to exit] is a chasm that needs more cash input.»

We took a deep dive into the process of tech startups approaching large financial institutions for partnerships.

During the boom of the 1990s, neoliberal economists and the financial press promoted the the high tech revolution for its ability to reduce production costs.

The financial services sector in Florida's High Tech Corridor represents a lucrative opportunity for growth.

An Interview with Michael Hudson for Counterpunch By STANDARD SCHAEFER During the boom of the 1990s, neoliberal economists and the financial press promoted the the high tech revolution for its ability to reduce production costs.

Online banking and electronic trading demand a high tech infrastructure for secure financial transactions.

The talks between Apple and Goldman Sachs are focused on providing financing for an upgrade program similar to what the tech company launched in 2015 with Citizens Financial Group.

«It is impossible to know the extent to which crypto assets may transform the financial infrastructure and whether most new crypto assets are likely to disappear as in past episodes of technological innovation (as many tech companies did during the boom of the late 1990s, for example),» wrote the IMF.

However, the tech has been especially gainful for financial services.

At year - end 1999, having turned the portfolio over 174 %, the manager said they had moved away from «stable growth companies» such as supermarket and financial companies, and into tech and leisure stocks, singling out in the year - end report Cisco and Sun Microsystems — each selling at the time at about 100 X earnings — for their «reasonable stock valuation.»

Contrast this with disappointing results for sectors such as financials, multinationals and energy, and tech appears to be one of the few areas of the market moving in the right direction.

A former financial tech journalist, Jeff has written for many authority news companies.

In a previous chart, we showed 49 % of millennials are much more open to engaging tech companies for financial services, while only 16 % of people of other generations feel the same.

Kenner would not say what kind of financial incentives the District would dangle but noted that it has been aggressive in the past in pushing for growth in private sector employment, particularly in tech.