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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Its pace of investing in financial services venture-backed companies has skyrocketed since 2017. According to a Crunchbase report , it acquired 29 companies over the recent years, being heavily focused on the FinTech sector. Beginning of November 2022, JPMorgan Chase & Co. used the Polygon blockchain to trade tokenized cash deposits.

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What it means to be Bonded, Licensed, and Insured

Strategy Driven

Service companies and contractors usually mention that they are “bonded, licensed, and insured” when they advertise their services. When companies claim that they are bonded, licensed, and insured, it tells us that they are committed to giving their best and most valuable service to their customers. Consider leaving a comment!

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Artificial Persuasion: The Invisible Brand

Leading Blog

A survey of 4500 people in 2017 by Forrester Research found that some 36 percent of adults say they actually prefer using digital customer service—including bots—over interacting with a human.”. Increasingly, people are creating emotional bonds with AI-powered machines.

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Green Bonds Benefit Companies, Investors, and the Planet

Harvard Business Review

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

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3 Tips for Leaders Who Engage on Social Media

Marshall Goldsmith

These are lifelong bonds we form with some people. Adapted from Lifestorming (Wiley, 2017) by Alan Weiss and Marshall Goldsmith. Some relationships are permanent; examples can include our families, life partners, close friends, and professional colleagues. Other relationships are transient. Order it at Amazon.

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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

A trust-based, reciprocal relationship changes the nature of interactions and alters the bond with a consequent recalibration. However, research such as Gallup’s new State of the American Workplace report (2017) indicate the adjustment is undoubtedly worthwhile and energy well-spent. This is an opportune evolution.

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3 Ways to Lift Morale with Team Building in London

Strategy Driven

By encouraging your workforce to bond with one another, you will be ensuring that they function as effectively as possible when operating as a team. Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. There is an endless array of potential team building activities which have proven to be effective training and motivational tools.