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Fintech Revolut Hires Behavioural Team to Improve Criticized Corporate Culture

Fintech Revolut Hires Behavioural Team to Improve Criticized Corporate Culture

The Guardian | Kalyeena Makortoff  | Jan 16, 2023 Britain’s most valuable fintech company, Revolut, is assembling a team to track whether staff are being “approachable” and “respectful”, as it tries to address criticism about an aggressive corporate culture and secure a UK banking licence. No UK license (yet): While the crypto trading to payments


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3 years ago
Proposed Changes to Crypto Mining GST/HST Rules:  What’s Capture and What’s Not?

Proposed Changes to Crypto Mining GST/HST Rules: What’s Capture and What’s Not?

GST | Jan 12, 2023 In February 2022, Canada’s Department of Finance released draft GST/HST legislation covering cryptocurrency mining. The proposed rules will effectively treat cryptocurrency mining as an exempt supply These proposals have not yet taken effect. According to the Department of Finance, if the legislation is passed, these tax rules will retroactively come


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3 years ago
5 Steps Crypto Investors Can Take to Avoid a Tax Audit

5 Steps Crypto Investors Can Take to Avoid a Tax Audit

Guest Post | Jan 23, 2023 A tax audit can be invasive, time-consuming, stressful, and result in an expensive tax bill in the end. The Canada Revenue Agency has stiff penalties, including interest charges, for unfiled taxes once they’re discovered. The CRA can even forward the results of your audit to a Crown prosecutor if


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3 years ago
How Corporations Can Innovate Like Startups

How Corporations Can Innovate Like Startups

Forbes | Jodie Cook | Jan 23, 2023 If you aren’t an innovator, but instead run a traditionally structured business you can learn a lot from successful startups and the innovative entrepreneurs who run them.  “Most companies suck at innovation because they are not thinking and acting like a startup,” Stemple said. “To avoid falling


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3 years ago
Egg prices rose 60% in 2022. One farm group claims it's a 'collusive scheme' by suppliers

Egg prices rose 60% in 2022. One farm group claims it's a 'collusive scheme' by suppliers

Egg prices soared to historic levels in 2022, and one farmer-led advocacy group is alleging the trend is due to price fixing by leading producers.

3 years ago
Egg prices rose 60% in 2022. One farm group claims 'collusive scheme' by suppliers

Egg prices rose 60% in 2022. One farm group claims 'collusive scheme' by suppliers

Egg prices soared to historic levels in 2022, and one farmer-led advocacy group is alleging the trend is due to price fixing by leading producers.

3 years ago
This Social Security change would be ‘easiest and quickest,’ Manchin says. What debt ceiling negotiations may mean for benefits

This Social Security change would be ‘easiest and quickest,’ Manchin says. What debt ceiling negotiations may mean for benefits

As Democrats and Republicans negotiate over the nation's debt, some worry changes to Social Security benefits could be on the line. Here's why.

3 years ago
Updated Benchmark:  Incumbent Bank vs Fintech Progress (after 900 days)

Updated Benchmark: Incumbent Bank vs Fintech Progress (after 900 days)

Built for Mars | Peter Ramsey | Jan 17, 2023 More than 900 days ago, I published a series of case studies called the UX of Banking. These benchmarked and compared the user experience of 12 banks in the UK. It was a forensic process: logging, timing and cataloging everything on their mobile apps.  Those 6 chapters from


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3 years ago
Roth IRA conversion taxes may be trickier than you expect. Here's what to know before filing — or converting funds in 2023

Roth IRA conversion taxes may be trickier than you expect. Here's what to know before filing — or converting funds in 2023

If you completed a Roth individual retirement account conversion in 2022, your tax return may be complicated. Here's what filers need to know.

3 years ago
Top Wall Street analysts pick these stocks to climb 2023’s wall of worry

Top Wall Street analysts pick these stocks to climb 2023’s wall of worry

TipRanks analyst ranking service pinpoints Wall Street's best-performing stocks, including Apple and Spotify.

3 years ago
75% of retirees fall short of a key retirement income goal. These steps can help

75% of retirees fall short of a key retirement income goal. These steps can help

The moves you make now can help make your lifestyle more comfortable in retirement later.

3 years ago
Inclusive Capital takes a stake in Bayer — 3 ways it may build value with a sustainable focus

Inclusive Capital takes a stake in Bayer — 3 ways it may build value with a sustainable focus

Jeff Ubben’s Inclusive Capital took a stake in Bayer. The pharmaceutical giant has a big footprint in the crop science space.

3 years ago
3 Easy Tricks to Pay Off Your Student Loan Faster

3 Easy Tricks to Pay Off Your Student Loan Faster

Guest Post | Jan 21, 2023 It’s a rare student who doesn’t want to pay off their student loan faster. And in today’s post, we’re going to share three tricks that will help you do so without a huge surplus of cash. #1 Pay More than the Minimum Due An average student’s life is more


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3 years ago
How Important is KYC for crypto transactions?

How Important is KYC for crypto transactions?

Guest Post | Jan 20, 2023 Cryptocurrency is a revolutionary new form of money and it’s here to stay. With its decentralized, digital nature, it can be utilized for financial transactions with greater privacy than a traditional currency like dollars and euros. But even though blockchain technology offers more security than other systems, there are


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3 years ago
Higher Social Security cost-of-living adjustments may affect your taxes. Here's how to plan

Higher Social Security cost-of-living adjustments may affect your taxes. Here's how to plan

Inflation has pushed Social Security's annual benefit increases up to historic highs for the past couple of years. That may trigger a bigger tax bill.

3 years ago