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Blockchain: Bitcoin, Bored Apes, and Beyond

Tom Spencer

Blockchain technology is making a strong impact in the finance industry due to the fact that it enables decentralization and direct peer-to-peer transactions. In 2017, Spotify acquired Mediachain so that it could provide this payment facility to its musicians and reduce the administrative task of dealing with payment claims.

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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

In 2017, Warton published an article that highlighted the rise of contractual workers in both the private and public sectors. They also need to manage their own training, resource development, and financing. Contractors need to be highly disciplined, organised, and have excellent time management skills.

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Fintech’s Next Obstacle: Mastering the Customer Experience

1 to 1

In 2017, fintech firms raised $16.6 billion in financing—an amount considerably higher than the $3.8 The financial landscape is so competitive that even disruptive technologies are at risk of being disrupted themselves, notes Chris Condon, SVP of Americas Business Development at TTEC. billion raised just four years prior.

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Sad News For Greece? Will Greece Kiss Troika's Ass?

MishTalk

Greece’s outspoken finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has been sidelined after three months of fruitless talks with international creditors to unlock €7.2bn in bailout funds, heartening investors and sparking a rally on the Athens stock market. This is not a good development for Greece in my opinion. Greek Capitulation?

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Is Writing a Business Book Worth the Trouble?

Emerson Consulting Group

There is little in business comparable to the excitement that develops when someone has published a book. which transforms business consultants, CEOs, attorneys, finance experts and other business leaders and their companies into published “thought leaders.” Your company will thus benefit as your new book expands its notoriety.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%.

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