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The Transition of E-commerce from Consumer to Capital Goods in Global Trade -Part I

As an endless line of MRAPS and tanks left Iraq, George Will made a memorable comment. "We can't rebuild Detroit, he said, "how were we to rebuild Iraq?"

Yesterday, Donald Trump unveiled in Detroit, his economic plan to rebuild America (the US). I leave it to the US people, the polity, to determine whether Trump's plan has any value. In the meantime, I will describe what I perceive as the basis for Round II in US dominance of global trade. As Joe Biden said recently, "we own the finish line."

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 15:30

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Creditcall Gets Accredited with Mastercard Emerging Payment Support

Creditcall, the omni-channel payment gateway and EMV Kernel provider, today announced that it has received Mastercard Emerging Payment Support Accreditation (MEPSA) in the program categories Guidance andTechnical Support to Acquirers.

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 14:38

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Cowen Group Names Steven A. Levy as Managing Director, Head of Financial Sponsors

Cowen Group, announced that Steven A. Levy has joined Cowen and Company’s investment banking team as Managing Director, Head of Financial Sponsors. Mr. Levy is based in New York and reports to Kevin Raidy, Cowen’s Head of Investment Banking.

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 14:21

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EarthLink and VeloCloud Announce Strategic Alliance

EarthLink Holdings Corp. a leading network services provider dedicated to delivering great customer experiences, today announced a partnership with VeloCloud, an industry-leading SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) technology provider.

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 13:46

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Corel Completes Acquisition of MindManager

Corel today announced that it has acquired the Mindjet(R) MindManager(R) business from S

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 13:41

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HMRC Finds UK Exports To EU Soar After 'Brexit' Vote

New trade figures from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) today reveals that the UK’s exports to EU countries increased by £1 billion during June, the month of the ‘Brexit’ referendum.

The latest statistics for UK overseas trade released today, regarding June’s figures shows:

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 13:31

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CLS Group Welcomes Daiwa Securities As a New Settlement Member

CLS Group, a leading provider of risk management and operational services for the global foreign exchange (FX) market, has expanded the number of settlement members accessing its service with the addition of Daiwa Securities Group.

Daiwa Securities Group is one of the largest financial institutions in Japan. It joins 65 other financial institutions in becoming a direct participant in CLS’s settlement and risk mitigation system – which settles approximately USD5 trillion a day on behalf of its clients.

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 13:12

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IP Trade Expands its Presence Throughout Europe

IP Trade S.A., a leading provider of high-performance, real-time communications and collaboration systems for trading floor environments and operations dispatch centres, is expanding its presence throughout Europe. IP Trade is capitalising on recent growth across all business segments in the region, responding to industry consolidation and preparing for a major buying cycle as customers migrate from legacy platforms.

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 12:53

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SWIFT Institute Presents a Comparative Analysis of US Federal and EU-level AML/CTF

The SWIFT Institute has released new research on the challenges of information statecraft for today’s global financial community. The report, ‘Multinational Banking and Conflicts among US-EU AML/CTF Compliance & Privacy Law: Operational & Political Views in Context,’ focuses on the duality between laws that seek to use data to protect the financial system and laws that seek to protect data privacy.

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 12:45

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Keira Rawlinson Joined Opus Bank as Managing Director, Head of Fiduciary Banking