Sentences with phrase «vulnerable customers in»

The Warm Home Discount requires the big suppliers, by law, to help vulnerable customers in the UK pay for energy.

Not exact matches

The middleman role is often vulnerable, but long customer relationships (sometimes going back more than 25 years) and the huge list of manufacturers involved (numbered in the hundreds) hints at the intractability of King's Flair's position.

The inquiry was welcomed by Jeff Morris, a financial planner who in 2013 exposed a culture of corruption and coverup in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the nation's largest bank, that targeted vulnerable customers.

In contrast, companies producing rigid plastic containers are less vulnerable because they generallyoperate under contractual arrangements with most customers.

We should keep in mind that a woman after giving birth is, in many cases, especially with first time mothers, a very vulnerable potential customer and that some of what formula companies do is «putting a stumbling block before the blind».

Up to 2.1 million customers in southern New York would be vulnerable to power interruptions from 2016 to 2020 if Indian Point shut down, Rick Gonzales, chief operating officer of the New York Independent System Operator, or I.S.O., told a State Senate committee in May.

It provided quick and easy access to comics from the majors to the indies, one - stop shopping at the point of sale, at the moment where the customer is most vulnerable to the casual pitch: while he or she is actually reading a comic, and is in the comic - reading frame of mind, and is mildly (or intensely) interested in another nibble of brain - candy.

While I agree that publishers offer a lot of valuable services to authors and customers beyond printing, storage, returns, etc., of physical books, I also think they are less vulnerable to competition in a world where physical books are still central.

This is in addition to the current price cap for vulnerable and prepayment customers.

All the same arguments as explained in detail in the UTCCR section above apply here including; customers can't opt out; it's an unfair cross subsidy; the effect of charges on vulnerable customers; the fact charges are designed to snare, the lack of competition; the incomprehensible nature of charges; and the difficulties they create for money management.

For example, if the same banking customer has a certificate of deposit held within a traditional IRA with a value of $ 200,000 and a Roth IRA held in a savings account with a value of $ 100,000 at the same institution, the account holder has $ 50,000 of vulnerable assets without FDIC coverage.

The world has some rough customers and often offers some depressing headlines in the news, and but when you start looking at all of the ways you could help vulnerable people or animals, simply by donating your points and miles or cash back, and start thinking about what effort and energy it took to start these worthy causes in the first place, you might be reminded that there's still far more good in this world than bad.

The civil justice system in the United States fails to meet the needs of its most vulnerable and needy customers.

In particular, LexisNexis ® Risk Solutions has high - lighted five key revisions to the current legislation that banks and other financial institutions must be aware of to remain compliant in their anti-money launder - ing provisions: • Pre-paid cash cards: to reduce financial crimes linked to anonymous pre - paid instruments, vendors will be required to conduct more stringent customer verification and the thresh - old will be reduced from $ 250 to $ 150 • Digital currencies: thorough customer due diligence controls will be required by all virtual cur - ing farmers, are vulnerable to unfair trading practices employed by partners in the chaiIn particular, LexisNexis ® Risk Solutions has high - lighted five key revisions to the current legislation that banks and other financial institutions must be aware of to remain compliant in their anti-money launder - ing provisions: • Pre-paid cash cards: to reduce financial crimes linked to anonymous pre - paid instruments, vendors will be required to conduct more stringent customer verification and the thresh - old will be reduced from $ 250 to $ 150 • Digital currencies: thorough customer due diligence controls will be required by all virtual cur - ing farmers, are vulnerable to unfair trading practices employed by partners in the chaiin their anti-money launder - ing provisions: • Pre-paid cash cards: to reduce financial crimes linked to anonymous pre - paid instruments, vendors will be required to conduct more stringent customer verification and the thresh - old will be reduced from $ 250 to $ 150 • Digital currencies: thorough customer due diligence controls will be required by all virtual cur - ing farmers, are vulnerable to unfair trading practices employed by partners in the chaiin the chain.

That's why Apple and Google release monthly security updates: Having a vulnerable phone is bad for business in such intense competition, so both companies want to make sure they're not leaving any customers open to attack (and themselves open to embarrassment).

In an interview with MSNBC and Recode on Wednesday, Cook noted that Apple's business model — unlike that of Facebook — depends on selling physical products instead of capitalizing on the bulk data of its customers, which is vulnerable to mishandling.

Exchanges generally try to keep a majority of customer deposits in cold wallets, which aren't connected to the outside world and thus are less vulnerable to hacks.

While the vision sounds rather utopian, the company has been able to convince developers that building decentralized applications on its platform can solve the problems - namely the liability of holding huge troves of customer data vulnerable to hacks - inherent in traditional digital services.

In the place of the vulnerable exchanges we use today, the idea behind atomic swaps is that these large repositories of customer money could be rendered obsolete by code.

Calling attention to red flags may make waves in a transaction, but it's far better than overlooking them, which leaves your client or customer vulnerable and you open to liability.

By some accounts, up to 70 percent of identity theft cases occur in the workplace, and real estate offices, with their heavy customer traffic and the variable hours associates keep, can be vulnerable to thieves.