Sentences with phrase «new financial technologies like»

The good news for us is that Malthus didn't foresee the impact of technological innovations which greatly increased food production — including new financial technologies like the corporation, international trade, and capital markets.

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«Blockchain» became the buzz word in financial technology this year, with everyone from banking and financial institutions (like Goldman Sachs and the New York Stock Exchange) to payment processors (Mastercard, Visa, and American Express) extolling its potential and publicly announcing interest in it, often in the form of startup investments.

«We've responded to the competitive environment by focusing on industries that are currently out of favor with the public - equity market, like biotech, medical devices, and early - stage information - technology companies,» says Patrick Boroian, a general partner at Sprout, which is the New York City - based venture - capital affiliate of financial - services giant Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

There is also an opportunity to connect Canadian businesses with new and like - minded partners in APEC economies such as Vietnam, where Canadian companies will find opportunities in sectors such as agri - food, education and training, information and communication technologies (ICT), clean tech and financial technology, as well as other services.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

«However, one certainly can't deny that new technologies like blockchain, robo advisors or crowd funding could have the potential to make financial markets and services faster, more efficient, more convenient, and more inexpensive for everyone.»

Alongside the rise of other financial technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence, which will take data analytics to new levels of extrapolation, derivatives in crypto may be the key to opening up the true potential of market profitability for cryptocurrencies.

Banking clients expect their commercial technology platforms to operate like consumer - facing technology, and yet new FinTech companies are taking the lead in fulfilling that vision for the financial ervices marketplace.

We have FinTech, which is using new computer technology to help the financial industry, but I am proposing the term SusTech, which is using new technology like the blockchain to help sustainability.

The financial industryâ $ ™ s creation of literally hundreds of technology funds, telecommunications funds, Internet funds, and the like to capitalize on the Information Age during the New Economy craze of 1998 to 2000 is a good example of complex innovation run amok.

Like the development and proliferation of new technologies at the end of the 19th century, computers allowed financial institutions to broaden their investor base and provided more effective communication between markets.

So, I was also experiencing new financial instruments like exchange - traded funds, which are innovations, low - cost, almost zero trading commissions and I started to see over time, what the methods of the large endowments and foundations and successful retirement pools, the institutions that Burt has spent his life consulting with those can now be brought down to every day investors and that's why I got the entrepreneurial bug again and got back into the game of running a company that, this time, was a convergence of software and financial technology.

Since then developments like new technologies, the financial crisis, and the rise of non-lawyers as major providers of legal services have all transformed the legal world immeasurably.

Without this kind of leadership, many business owners in the financial, legal and health fields, for example, will look back at this time and wonder why they were not more on the ball — because initiating change like adjudicating cases online does not necessarily require new technology: it requires people who are not afraid to adapt to technology.

Markets like international remittances and asset management are ripe for innovation using Ethereum technology, and TokenCard is well - positioned to reach these new frontiers as a revolutionary financial solution.

Nearly a year into the new role, Carl lets us in on what it's like to work in technology within the financial sector — a fast - paced, growing area you may not yet have considered if you have a technical degree...

Some of the company's fans would like to blame its lackluster performance on the tight financial controls exercised by American Apparel's private equity stakeholder Lion Capital, which is reportedly preventing the chain from investing in new technology and equipment.