But the advent of Bitcoin essentially cuts out
the middleman on any foreign exchange.
Read this conversation with curator Alison M. Gingeras and Rachel
Middleman on curating this section of the fair in frieze.
Goozex acted as
middleman on millions of trades, but industry shifts doomed trading and now Goozex appears closed for good.
Since they are the company processing the transaction, they can cut out
the middleman on their purchases, saving them about 1 % on each purchase by having customers use their own branded credit and debit cards.
One compelling reason to self - publish is to cut out
the middleman on sales.
BlackRock, soon to be the world's largest money manager, is working on a way to cut out
the middleman on a lot of its equity trades, according to a report in the Financial Times on Saturday.
There are way too many publishing services acting as
middlemen on their own behalf creating a chokehold between authors and readers.
Furthermore, the number of
middlemen on the Internet, such as Yelp and Groupon who connect suppliers with buyers, seem to be on the rise.
Not exact matches
Meanwhile, Zenefits» model of cutting out the
middleman for HR services via the cloud seems to be catching
on.
And it's here where a new battle is brewing, because these
middlemen, which make up the backbone of the Internet, and which many small businesses also depend
on for access, are now competing head -
on with enormous providers like Comcast and Verizon.
Leaving out the
middleman when you're working
on your own code tends to mean fewer mistakes and faster fixes.
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 can deploy data and process improvements to cut out the costly
middleman and cut down
on costly manual processes.
Many of the new models are predicated
on cutting out the
middlemen to bring down costs for the companies and their customers.
These guys are also making full margin
on their product because they don't have to deal with a
middleman.
All four models are predicated
on cutting out the
middlemen to bring down costs for the companies and their customers.
Most of the new models focus
on cutting out the
middlemen to bring down costs for companies and their customers.
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.
Those
middlemen are by no means starving: Mylan revealed
on Thursday that it wasn't pocketing the full $ 608 EpiPen wholesale price in the first place, but only $ 274 per prescription, with the remaining $ 334 split between the other parties.
Blockchains eliminate the risk of having a
middleman who defrauds someone
on either side of the transaction or who takes the money and runs.
From time immemorial, they've been squeezed by vendors and
middlemen who dictate terms from
on high and leave them scrambling to get by
on razor - thin margins.
Advertising
on the web is a thicket of ad networks and
middlemen.
That transition is enabling gamemakers to cut back
on middlemen and reduce their expenses: Their gross margins are about 80 % for downloaded titles, compared with 60 %
on packaged games, T. Rowe Price estimates.
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.
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.
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.»
«No merchant service provider riding
on the traditional interchange rails can offer all - inclusive pricing because there are three or four
middlemen who take a cut of every transaction,» says Gallippi.
Unlike traditional applications built
on platforms like iOS and Android, dApps connect users and developers directly without the need for a
middleman to host and manage the code and user data.
While the argument can be made that this
middleman could be avoided, for the sake of keeping our feet firm
on the ground, let's remain realistic.
Choosing to directly forego the underwriter «
middleman» is cheaper, but unconventional, and it is hard to determine the impact this will have
on Spotify's pricing.
In oversimplified terms, the company is just a
middleman, almost like a toll collector
on a highway.
By pushing down the fee, well below the 5 per cent industry standard and then also charging a rebate
on top of that, it could allow Coles to seize hundreds of millions of dollars from these
middlemen and channel it back into its own revenue stream.
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Now, schools cheat by paying
middlemen to ferry prospects
on unofficial visits they couldn't otherwise afford.
just read in the print version of the guardian that hleb's agents are apparently Uli Ferber and Nikolai Shpilevski... Morabito seems to be some «floater» or tosser who acts as a
middlemen... anyway, I would be really interested in some background stories about how transfer deals are actually realised in reality — if anyone can recommend some literature
on this, would be grateful... and I would not like to see hleb leave.
Unity ’08 tried to go the opposite direction — it tried to become a NEW
middleman, replacing the traditional parties with a fresh intermediary political structure that would create a process to choose candidates
on its members» behalf.
After the November meeting with Smith, the cooperating witness and the undercover agent enlisted Halloran to act as a
middleman to persuade the Bronx and Queens party bosses to sign off
on the certificates, according to a criminal complaint.
Zhou also tried to turn Howe's bad behavior back
on the defendants, arguing that Howe was inserted into the case by their decision to use him as a
middleman for corrupt deals.
«We were probably relying too much
on outside consultants, (and) had too many
middlemen taking pieces of the project off the top, making it run slower and in a more costly fashion.»
In fact, Rattner was also being advised by his lawyers to make himself a lower - profile target for federal and state investigators who were probing whether he had paid off a
middleman to win a lucrative contract from New York's pension system while he worked
on Wall Street, a government source said Wednesday.
Yesterday the
middleman at the heart of the leak, former SAS officer John Wick, gave his first interview
on his role in conveying MPs» expenses receipts to the Daily Telegraph, telling the paper he had acted to expose the «rotten core» of the parliamentary system adding: «Parliament will be a better place, society will be a better place.»
Prosecutors Monday focused heavily
on the energy company dealings, but Howe said he acted as a
middleman for an alleged $ 35,000 bribe from Syracuse developers Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi of Cor Development allegedly paid to Percoco.
Then there are SMEs that develop biotechnologies, and others that act as
middlemen, developing projects spun out from universities, for example, before selling them
on to the pharmaceutical industry.
Crypto - currencies are intended to eliminate reliance
on brick - and - mortar
middlemen such as banks, exchanges, credit card conglomerates and other financial intermediaries.
Kumar's luck turned
on January 24, 2008, when a constable in Moradabad, a town near Meerut, witnessed a fight between Gyasuddin, the
middleman, and a donor named Vidya Prakash; Prakash charged that Gyasuddin had stolen his kidney.
Given2 is the first online gift list that allows you to receive your gifts amount directly
on your current account without any
middleman or commission.
It has helped me eliminate
middlemen and save
on commissions dealers charge without me having to even divulge my contact information online.
Given that the youngest Jenner's talents are better suited to devising Lip Kit shades than belting out tunes
on stage, she's cut out the whole «go
on tour»
middleman and gone straight to the «sell hoodies featuring your name in a heavy - metal - inspired font» stage of the game.
So, by cutting the
middlemen we're able to pass
on the savings to our customers.
«For me, it's just cool to be a
middleman to some characters that people might relate to,» said writer - director Cameron Crowe, whose characters have included the likes of the quintessential stoner Jeff Spicoli in «Fast Times at Ridgemont High,» the boombox - hoisting Lloyd Dobler in «Say Anything,» the driven agent Jerry Maguire in the movie that bears his name and the teenaged rock journalist William Miller (based
on Crowe's own adventures) in «Almost Famous,» for which he won a screenwriting Oscar.