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What are the best cryptocurrency exchanges in the world?

Strategy Driven

The exchange itself was established in 2017, but its founder – Changpeng Zhao – had previously worked in teams related to finance and cryptocurrencies. In 2005, he founded the company Fusion Systems, which created, among others high frequency trading systems for brokers. Binance – many years of experience.

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Apple, Don't Weaken the Garden Walls

Harvard Business Review

In this week's Business Week, longtime Apple watchers Brad Stone and Peter Burrows wrote an article on (what else?) In 2001, BusinessWeek published an article entitled "Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work." Advantage instead went to the horizontal layers of chips and operating systems (cue Wintel).

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How Could I Miss That? Jamie Dimon on the Hot Seat

Harvard Business Review

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. On April 4 of this year, Dimon read a short article in the Wall Street Journal about a JPMorgan trader in London, Bruno Iksil, who was making massive bets that exposed the bank to high levels of risk.

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Lots of Employees Get Misclassified as Contractors. Here’s Why It Matters

Harvard Business Review

of employment in 2005 to 9.6% These truck drivers, misclassified as independent owner-operators, were forced by companies whom they worked to purchase new vehicles to comply with more stringent emission restrictions. Lacking capital, truckers purchased new vehicles through financing provided by these very same trucking companies.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

British law created the Community Interest Company in 2005, and a number of U.S. For-benefit enterprises currently operate at a substantial disadvantage relative to for-profits because our legal and market systems are not designed to recognize or support them. Change the Rules.

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As European Banks Retreat from the World Stage, China Is Stepping Up

Harvard Business Review

Stung by a series of risky foreign adventures that came back to bite them, most large global banks in Europe and the United States have retreated from foreign operations. Of course, the retrenchment of global finance also reflects pressure on banks from regulators and shareholders to rebuild their capital and liquidity.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company.

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