Sentences with phrase «world assets using»

NEO collaborating with certificate authorities in China to map real - world assets using smart contracts

Not exact matches

To find the wealthiest people in the world, Wealth - X looked at its database of dossiers on more than 110,000 ultra-high net - worth people and used a proprietary valuation model that takes into account each person's assets, then adjusts estimated net worth to account for currency - exchange rates, local taxes, savings rates, investment performance, and other factors.

Benjamin Tal and Royce Mendes, economists at CIBC World Markets, estimate that Canadians currently hold about $ 75 - billion in excess cash that they typically would have used to purchase assets that promise a return.

In an ideal world, there would be no need for a business to use their assets to raise finance but as a means of weathering a financial storm, the option can often prove absolutely invaluable.

«Our focus is to accelerate early - stage startups that want to use Chile as an asset to scale from Latin America and to the world,» the organization explains.

In practice, this means that the protocol tokenizes real - world assets and uses ethereum smart contracts to ensure that investors can execute trades only if they satisfy pertinent regulations, such as know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) requirements.

The public equity market is factually and demonstrably a small fraction of the financial assets available and traded in the economy, and it still is not clear to me why that particular slice of the asset world should be used as a price guide for the social discount rate.

The protocol uses the Colored Coins technique to represent and manage real world assets on top of the Bitcoin Blockchain.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

The flexibility and easy - to - use interface of the BinaryMate system makes it a great asset for traders who are new to the world of binary options or simply want to take advantage of some of the best tools on the market today.

While we can sit here and debate the value of things, there is one company that is looking to blend the best of both worlds through the use of a crypto token that is based on real - world assets, but can still take advantage of everything that makes digital currencies so appealing — the blockchain and smart contracts being two examples.

The book could benefit from additional real - world examples illustrating the procedures being described, (perhaps using the same dog grooming brush business referred to a couple of times) to help the reader to understand how to judge the value of particular assets and approaches and to see the tactics in use.

With an ETF, you can get exposure to just about any asset class in the world, very cheaply — just basis points — and what do people use them for?

Buying Litecoin (LTC) with your Visa or MasterCard is now really easy and people around the world can access one of the leading blockchain assets using their fiat currency.

«The role of active investors is to find value, but when all asset classes are overvalued, the only way to survive is by using financial engineering to short volatility in some form... In world of ultra-low interest rates shorting volatility has become an alternative to fixed income... The global demand for yield is now unmatched in human history.

RBOptions also offers a wide selection of assets that are available to trade, these include many currencies, a variety of stocks, indices form around the world and an investor can also make trades by using commodities as their asset of choice.

Portfolio managers and traders from the world's largest pension funds, asset managers and insurance companies also use bond ETFs.

In their August 2017 paper entitled «Investing in a Multi-Asset Multi-Factor World», Alexandar Cherkezov, Harald Lohre, Sergey Protchenko and Jay Raol investigate the use of factor investing across multiple asset classes.

Another approach which is used in U.S. state and local taxation by virtue of an interstate compact, is to have entities (or consolidated groups of corporations) prepare one tax return for the entire world and then to allocate pro-rata percentages of that global return to different jurisdictions based upon a handful of factors that are relatively hard to manipulate and bear a meaningful relationship to where income is earned such as sales, employment and the location of physical assets.

DiNapoli has used the leverage of the pension fund in the past to wring greater transparency from the corporate world where some of the fund's assets are invested.

«We're going to have to use all of our assets if we're going to create a more peaceful world.»

After all, when used properly, the clothes you wear can be an asset in projecting to the world the way you'd like to be viewed.

Some things are relatively straightforward - and are happening in classrooms across the country: teachers can use formative assessment and student work to make decisions and adjust instruction; teachers can demand rigor, of themselves and their colleagues; teachers can teach in ways that are rigorous and relevant — leveraging the assets of the families, cultures and community resources of the children they serve — getting students to think and act critically in their world and the larger one.

Bring your creative projects to life with ready - to - use design assets from independent creators around the world.

Unfortunately, in a world in which cash pays next to nothing and even riskier assets, like stocks and bonds, have a lower long - term expected return than they once did (according to a BlackRock analysis using Bloomberg data), holding a sizeable portion of one's retirement savings in cash could prevent many from reaching their financial goals.

«The investment world moves so much faster than it used to,» said Harvey Rowen, CEO of investment advisory firm Starmont Asset Management.

It's simple, it uses the lowest cost instruments available, and you have complete representation of the major asset classes in the world.

Canadian institutional investors are increasingly using exchange - traded funds (ETFs) for strategic asset allocations, and are leading the world in the innovative application of ETFs to realize their investment strategies - even beyond equities - according to the Greenwich Associates 2015 Canadian Exchange - Traded Funds study.

Using our definition from Bekaert and Wang, assets with returns that are positively correlated with inflation over shorter periods like 1 to 5 years represent an acceptable real - world inflation hedge.

Portfolio managers and traders from the world's largest pension funds, asset managers and insurance companies also use bond ETFs.

If you use the card correctly and follow the rules (better known as «terms and conditions» in the credit card world), a 0 % APR credit card can be a real asset in managing your finances.

If you're holding government bonds, corporate bonds, real - return bonds, stocks from around the world (with a mixture of value and growth, large and small), real estate and several currencies, chances are that there will always be both overvalued and undervalued assets in the mix, whatever yardstick you want to use.

While I was taking the CFA courses, I made a big fuss about each one of these stats via actual client portfolios in the Real World, using both Morningstar and the best asset - level portfolio optimizer.

The problem with that is that you can only find index funds for a little more than half of the asset classes in the Real World (and using ETFs offer little - to - no help here, because they behave more like mutual funds than index funds, plus they have much too little history for the results to be statistically significant).

Caruso Affiliated develops, owns and manages a growing portfolio of world - class high - quality retail, mixed - use, and hospitality assets.

-- A new full 100 - hour Japanese Tactical RPG for Android — Enhanced battle system including special chain skills, break and overkill — High level of freedom: explore the world to progress through the story in any order you wish — Use various actions to modify the battle field during exploration phases — Create over 200 different items and skills — Capture monsters and have them fight in your party — High resolution graphic assets — Support for touch & keyboard with key mapping — Xperia Play optimized

Earth Wars chooses to have paper craft like animations using hand - drawn art assets to illustrate its world, and this choice makes your attacks feel like they have a wait that they may not otherwise carry.

More importantly, it captures the company jumping straight into the biggest fad of contemporary gaming — open - world gameplay — and using it to revitalize one of their greatest assets.

As fun as it was to participate in The Summit, I really missed being able to manually travel from one location to another instead of being forced to use the hub menu to choose specific events, a design choice that robs the game of its greatest asset - Its dynamic open - world.

Twitter user @RandomTBush has uncovered what he believes to be unused assets for Yoshi's Woolly World that shows it used to look very similar to...

• Follow the level design pipeline from «pen & paper» game designs to implement spectacular character based levels and ultra-fun gameplay mechanics • Work closely with level layout artists to identify level assets and gameplay direction to ensure visual and technical quality for the levels • Follow direction of Lead Level Designer to maintain gameplay vision consistency • Contribute to level concept, layout, implementation (camera, entity, etc.), prototype modeling, scenario creation, event scripting, game balancing, pacing, and gameplay tuning • Contribute to general game design, as well as cooperate with all other facets of game production (programming, environment / world art and animation) • Place and trigger entities (such as enemies, movers, and objects) to create fun, absorbing gameplay • Master internal tools for modeling environments and integrating game play • Rough out world geometry, camera paths, and lighting using 3D world - building tools • Assist with the scripting of gameplay entities and events • Creatively resolve gameplay and production issues • Meet production schedules and deadlines • Collaborate with Design team to define and refine gameplay mechanics • Multitask effectively, prioritize competing demands, and follow through on details

I've written repeatedly about how there are two utterly divergent human worlds at this remarkable juncture in our history — one in which lives and economies are enabled by technology and ample energy, and a much larger one without those assets (I use that word in a nonjudgmental way).

According to the overall composite ranking approach used by Forbes (based on assets as well as sales, profits, and market value), and given the differences between bank assets and oil company assets, ExxonMobil is ranked fifth in the overall list of «The Top 100» companies in the world, behind three banks and also GE.

We have an agreement between every country in the world to have a dramatic shift away from the use of fossil fuels, and yet still fossil fuel companies dominate our stock exchanges, and on the basis that they're going to utilise all of the assets, all of those oil and gas reserves, which we absolutely can't burn.

A new opportunity, a source of local employment, increased income for the farmers who are hosting the wind turbines, a source of finance for community development and a local asset that can show the world that the people in this area are proud to be a part of the necessary change to renewable energy and away from the damaging use of fossil fuels.

Since most people seem to use bitcoin for saving or some sort of safe haven asset, it is only a matter of time before it finds itself being used as a de facto medium of exchange in communities around the world.

The protocol uses the Colored Coins technique to represent and manage real world assets on top of the Bitcoin Blockchain.

While we can sit here and debate the value of things, there is one company that is looking to blend the best of both worlds through the use of a crypto token that is based on real - world assets, but can still take advantage of everything that makes digital currencies so appealing — the blockchain and smart contracts being two examples.

The Lykke exchange charges no fees and uses so called «colored coins» — crypto tokens which can represent real - world assets from bonds to gold, but which settle on the bitcoin blockchain in minutes.

Throughout the paper, points are made around bitcoin's intrinsic value, the use cases of the digital asset, eventual levels of adoption, and a complete take over as the world's most widely - used form of money.