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Webinar: COVID-19 Restart Series: Financial Restructuring Of A Business In Challenging Times - - Canada
As a result of COVID-19 the business environment is and will be increasingly challenging for many businesses in Canada. Members of our Insolvency & Restructuring team will discuss strategies for dealing with: " bank and non-bank lenders; " suppliers including IT/IP contracts; " landlords; and, " boards of companies dealing with short and longer term market and financial upheavals in both domestic and cross-border proceedings and negotiations.
Financial Restructuring of a Business in Challenging Times
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Innovation is the key to solve our climate issues - part 1 - Introduction
Disclaimer: this blog is not directly associated to the financial services and Fintech sector, but as it forms an introduction to a 2nd and 3rd blog, which are indeed related to these sector, I have published this blog nonetheless also on the Finextra platform. My apologies to people considering that this blog is off-topic for this platform.
HVAC Contractors Should Be Tracking Field Productivity
Warren Buffett once remarked, “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who has been swimming naked.” He was referring to the financial crises of 2008-2009 when many Wall Street firms appeared to be financially sound but lacked internal discipline and operational control to weather an economic downturn. Despite the pandemic, HVAC contractors today are similarly busy — especially if they are in a state where construction has been designated essential.
Getting personal with APIs to unlock lending
Lending money is a risky business. The biggest challenge for any lender is how to balance service (the drive to serve as many customers as possible) with risk (the possibility of a customer defaulting on their loan payments). This calculation is made using a mix of information provided by the customer, insights from previous experience and, increasingly, predictive modelling to assess likely outcomes.
Time to Take Your Shot - There’s a Revolution in Banking
“Every generation needs a new revolution,” Thomas Jefferson Digital banks are popping up everywhere. Many of these upstarts are the offspring of grown-up banks that may be careworn and lacking in agility. How will the older and wiser cohabit with such youthful exuberance? In this blog we consider how to close this “banking generation gap” before the chasm gets too wide. The digital age promoted technology from the back office to be at the front, middle and back of all that a bank does.
Building for transparency and sustainability in finance
Financial products have a reputation for being difficult to understand when it comes to both terminology and functionality for everyday consumers. Customers often have to deal with an abundance of arcane jargon and long, convoluted application processes.
How AI and data enables ESG to make real world impact
ESG is a Data and AI problem The benefits of incorporating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) within business targets are well understood by companies and regulators, and especially investors. Research shows a quarter of all fund investors planned to increase holdings in the sustainable sector over the next half year.
Automated Redlining in 2020 - Is Tech Systemically Biased?
The Covid-19 health and economic crisis has expanded and accelerated our adoption of technology at a rate never seen before. We are finding ourselves in a place that might otherwise have taken years to get to and are just starting to become aware of the implications. The crisis is also showing us that while technology can move us forward in leaps and bounds, new automated systems are dragging along the systemic biases of the past.
Four ways fintech can change the world for good
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Managing Climate Change Risks: Key Actions for Financial Institutions
“Every company, investor, & bank that screens new & existing investments for climate risk is simply being pragmatic” - Jim Yong Kim (Former President, World Bank) As per Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) findings from a 2018 survey of UK banking sector, even as 70% of the banks acknowledged that climate change present financial risks, only 10% had taken a long-term view of such risks.
CARES Act: Support for Low Income Households
The Coronavirus economic crisis is putting already financially distressed households in much greater distress. It als presents an enormous challenge for nonprofits and government agencies that must immediately transition from financial guidance to what is essentially complex disaster relief services at huge scale - while also having shut down their workplaces. The only way to do this is with technology and coordination at scale.
CARES Act: Support for Low Income & Wealth Households
The Coronavirus economic crisis is putting already financially distressed households in much greater distress. It als presents an enormous challenge for nonprofits and government agencies that must immediately transition from financial guidance to what is essentially complex disaster relief services at huge scale - while also having shut down their workplaces. The only way to do this is with technology and coordination at scale.
CARES Act: LMI Household Benefits During Coronavirus Economic Emergency
The Coronavirus economic crisis is putting LMI households in much greater distress. It presents an enormous challenge for nonprofits and government agencies that must immediately transition from financial guidance to what is essentially complex disaster relief services at huge scale - while also having shut down their workplaces. The only way to do this is with technology and coordination at scale.
Will financial institutions make the SRDII deadline
With barely six months remaining before the September 2020 deadline for European Commission’s implementing regulation 2018/1212 for Shareholder Rights Directive II (SRDII), firms operating as financial intermediaries are focused on planning for compliance.
Inaction with voluntary corporate actions can lead to mandatory retribution
Voluntary corporate actions are often considered to be an inconsequential aspect of investment management. However, given the sheer amount of money that is lost to poorly handled corporate actions decisions – and the fiduciary infractions that they may spur down the road – these activities are proving to be highly consequential. Voluntary corporate actions are bound to individual stocks or bonds and require an election or decision to be made on behalf of shareholders.
To Boldly Go… towards a global system of accountability – Google Inc. v. Equustek Solutions Inc.
To Boldly Go… towards a global system of accountability – Google Inc. v. Equustek Solutions Inc. Wednesday, August 30, 2017Tim DuncanLitigation, Intellectual Property, InjunctionsSupreme Court of Canada, Technology, Freedom of Expression In true common law tradition, let’s start this blog post with some obligatory Latin: audentes Fortuna iuvat. “Fortune favours the bold.” This might have been the principle that governed the behaviour of Datalink Technologies Inc.
David Yurman With Monta And Juanika Ellis Hosts A Private In-Store Event Benefiting Susan G. Komen In Dallas, Texas Photos and Images
David Yurman With Monta And Juanika Ellis Hosts A Private In-Store Event Benefiting Susan G. Komen In Dallas, Texas David Yurman With Monta And Juanika Ellis Hosts A Private In-Store Event Benefiting Susan G. Komen In Dallas, Texas David Yurman With Monta And Juanika Ellis Hosts A Private In-Store Event Benefiting Susan G. Komen In Dallas, Texas David Yurman With Monta And Juanika Ellis Hosts A Private In-Store Event Benefiting Susan G.
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