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These states are poised to pass personal finance education legislation this year

Georgia will likely be the next state to pass a personal finance education mandate, according to a bill tracker from Next Gen Personal Finance, a nonprofit.

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Gold House launches $30 million fund to invest in entrepreneurs of Asian descent

Gold House Ventures aims to boost API leadership in the corporate world by promoting Asian entrepreneurs.

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Kevin O’Leary-backed WonderFi acquires Coinberry for $38.5 million

Betakit | Josh Scott  | Apr 18, 2022 Less than a month after closing its acquisition of Bitbuy, WonderFi has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Toronto’s Coinberry, which offers a crypto trading platform, for approximately $38.5 million CAD in WonderFi stock, based on the company’s current share price. Once the deal has closed


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Twitter’s board adopts ‘poison pill’ as Elon Musk vows $0 salary for board

Reuters via Global News | Staff | Apr 18, 2022 Elon Musk took a swipe at the board of Twitter on Monday after the social media company adopted a “poison pill” to protect itself from the second-biggest shareholder’s US$43 billion cash buyout offer. “Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M/year


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A $1 million winning Powerball ticket will expire soon. Here's how much lottery players leave on the table

Whether due to losing a ticket, not checking it closely or some other mishap, lottery winners have left millions of dollars unclaimed over the years.

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IP Box: Would a special IP income tax rate boost Canada’s flagging innovation?

C.D. Howe | John Lester | Apr 5, 2022 Canada needs to create an Intellectual Property (IP) Box to improve its lacklustre innovation performance, according to a new study from the C.D. Howe Institute. An IP Box would tax income from patents and other intellectual property at a special low rate. This initiative would boost


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Venusverse launches a unqiue Canadian NFT collection: Women of Venusverse

Venusverse | Janelle Chalouhi | Apr 19, 2022 Canadian women are underrepresented in tech and particularly in Web3. The Canadian cryptocurrency-NFt-Web3 space is 95% men and a mere 5% women. It’s a massive gap for Canada.  Despite the enumerated benefits of diversity (McKinsey), when it comes to women in tech there continue to be inequality,


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Resources for Recruiting International Top Talent

Mentor Works | Myra | Apr 18, 2022 Many Canadian businesses seek out foreign workers to help fill labour needs after exhausting the domestic candidate pool and when there are no Canadian citizens or permanent residents available to fill positions. These individuals can arrive in Canada through a range of positions such as a temporary


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OFSI issues guidelines for Culture Risk Management and seeks for input by May 31, 2022

OFSI | Mar 15, 2022 The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) examines the culture practices of federally regulated financial institutions (FRFIs) and how the risks created, perpetuated, or magnified by a FRFI’s culture can affect their safety and soundness.  OSFI plans to issue a principles-based, outcomes-focused culture risk management guideline for consultation


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Epic Games Raises $2 Billion From Lego Investors & Sony for Family-friendly Metaverse

Upload VR | Ian Hamilton | Apr 11, 2022 Epic Games continues to align with partners on efforts to build a 3D-focused version of the Internet with $2 billion raised from the investors behind Lego and Sony. Epic just launched Unreal Engine 5 for a wide range of 3D creation tasks ranging from film production


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Why Compound is redesigning it’s token-economics

The Defiant | Samuel Haig | Apr 19, 2022 Background In the summer of 2020, Ethereum lending protocol Compound worked out that if you give away free governance tokens for borrowing and lending crypto, people will flock to your platform and pump the value of your new token.  But when that free money spigot ran


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Insights from scaling high growth, hybrid work cultures

Forbes | Jack Kelly | Mar 29, 2022 Lynne Oldham is a highly successful global chief people officer and business leader with 20 years of experience in strategic human resources leadership and key talent acquisition in various industries, driving profitable growth strategies for startups, private and public companies and international organizations. She was the chief


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Education Department changes will bring 3.6 million people closer to loan forgiveness

Millions of student loan borrowers will be closer to debt forgiveness after a number of changes the Education Department plans to make to the lending system.

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42% of women investors say they got started during the pandemic, survey shows

In addition to joining the ranks of investors, many women also are putting their money to work outside of their retirement accounts, research shows.

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As inflation continues to squeeze Americans, here are 3 ways retirees can cope with higher prices

Consumer prices jumped 8.5% in March from a year ago. Here's how retirees can cope with higher prices amid rising inflation.

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