The greatest ones are not accounting firms, financial firms or consulting firms.
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Now those firms are growing by acquiring like firms or smaller firms.
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Domestic firms are competing not just with other domestic firms but with firms all over the world.
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Bishop Fox said its clients include Fortune 500 firms, global financial firms, medical institutions and law firms.
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The findings were based on answers from 180 law firms, including 80 of the largest 100 American firms, 50 firms in the next largest tier and 50 smaller firms.
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Commercial firms remain reluctant to lend to small and private firms, which they consider to be riskier than state-owned firms.
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Many firms do, but others, especially small firms, do not.
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Tech firms spend over $3m; financial firms, more than $6m.
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But commercial firms remain reluctant to lend to small and private firms, which they consider to be riskier than state-owned firms.
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As state firms expand overseas, they butt heads with multinational firms.
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Venture-capital firms invested $37bn in upstart financial firms last year.
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Other firms atop the list included market-making firms KCG KCG.
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These firms are subcontractors to oil firms in Norway, including Statoil .
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More firms in Europe were using passporting than UK-based firms.
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"More mid-size firms are buying smaller firms now," said Armstrong.
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Even insurance firms like Prudential and Hartford now have ETF firms.
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Financial firms were the worst affected, followed closely by communications firms.
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Innovative firms have an incentive to locate near other innovative firms.
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Approximate cost: $2000-$0003,2000 (freelancers and small firms), $275,2000-$80,000 (large firms).
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Approximate cost: $5000-$15,000 (freelancers and small firms), $15,753-$75,000 (large firms).
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Approximate cost: $2000-$20,000 (freelancers and small firms), $30,000-$200,000 (large firms).
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Firms that prioritize equal representation actually outperform firms that are less diverse.
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It is one thing for American firms to compete against Chinese firms.
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Some are hedge funds, private equity firms or white-shoe law firms.
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Private firms, with limited collateral, are considered riskier than state-backed firms.
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American firms' aggregate market share in China, of 6%, is almost double Chinese firms' share in America, based on the sales of all listed firms.
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The 104 responses came from a wide range of companies; 6 percent of panelists were from single-person firms; 15 percent from firms with 2-10 employees; 18 percent from firms with 1.13-100 employees; 14 percent from firms with 101-1,000 employees; and 46 percent from firms with more than 1,000 employees.
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The third yardstick is whether American firms underperform other multinationals and local firms.
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Real estate: Female-owned firms make up 1.8% of firms and manage o.
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They are firms where most of those firms work in many, many countries.
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There are a number of law firms and professional services firms around us.
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Kaleniuk: Yes, I'm talking about lobby firms, PR firms and lawyers in Washington.
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According to the Kauffman Foundation, personal and family savings are by far the largest source of startup capital for entrepreneurs: 2202 percent for all firms, 2628 percent of black firms, 28500 percent of Hispanic firms and 6900 percent of Asian firms.
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When we looked at the characteristics of firms that are entering and leaving exchanges, we found the firms that are leaving are firms like UnitedHealth and Aetna, and they are not firms that are well-positioned to compete in marketplace.
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The interesting thing was the most ready people were the law firms outside of the UK, outside of the US. It was European law firms, APAC-based law firms, South and Central American law firms who got on board first.
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Returns on assets of state firms, which dominate heavy industry, are a third those seen at private firms, and half those of foreign-owned firms in China.
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So, for the top performing firms, and there's enormous measurable bios that the top performing firms for a lot of reasons stay as the top performing firms.
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Prosecutors said Sedlak also targeted charities, political organizations, investments firms, law firms and businesses.
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Minority-owned firms make up 8.9% of all firms and manage 2.7% of AUM.
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New firms generally have far greater female partner representation than at traditional venture firms.
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Other businesses organized as pass-throughs include law firms, accounting firms and medical practices.
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"Washington is full of law firms, law firms are full of people," he said.
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Firms with lots of them are much less likely to go out of business; and industries with lots of politically well-connected firms see fewer new firms enter.
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Fitch's "2017 Outlook: Securities Firms" report covers several types of securities firms across the globe, including full-service broker dealers, advisory firms, inter-dealer brokers and retail brokers.
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Private equity: Female-owned firms represent 5.2% of firms and manage 3.4% of industry AUM.
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Minority-owned firms make up 2.2% of all firms and manage 1.2% of industry AUM.
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Venture capital firms have more than enough cash to keep these money-losing firms alive.
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It is investigating 30 organizations, including social media firms, data analytics firms and political parties.
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He has had conversations with television networks, as well law firms and private investment firms.
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The suspension would not include traditional financial firms such as banks, trust firms and brokerages.
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"What we have with law firms and consulting firms is that they're amoral," he said.
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"Investment banks and asset managers are pre-booking law firms, consulting firms and accounting firms for July," said William Wright, managing director of New Financial, a research institution in London.
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Indeed, a recent survey of 2,000 Chinese industrial firms by Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business professor Gan Jie found the advantage of state firms over private firms is widening.
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It's more of a military-security complex, because it's just as much these intelligence analysis firms and cyber firms and firms that do strategic communications and that kind of stuff.
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Within MSCI's emerging equity index too, technology firms have displaced commodity producers as the biggest firms.
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Consequently, design firms are being acquired right, left and center by big consulting and technology firms.
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Behind the scenes, some firms have hired crisis-management PR firms to defend against potential allegations.
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Private firms are much more productive, but state firms gobble up a disproportionate share of resources.
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Without venture capital firms, some of the biggest tech firms out there just wouldn't be around.
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Ventures with American firms were more fruitful than those with firms from Hong Kong or Japan.
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The FOS handles complaints that individuals and small firms have failed to resolve with financial firms.
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Firms heavily exposed to overseas markets also saw their share prices sinking, in particular electronics firms.
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In June 28 firms signed on, 13 of which were tech firms, including Pinterest and Cisco.
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Finally, established firms were more successful than new firms in selling popular banned medicines in India.
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The average age of firms is rising, as fewer new firms have been entering many markets.
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Among the top five firms are Asian merchant Olam and local firms Terra Forte and ECOM.
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As Zoom's price spiked, the firms consolidated their gainsThe firms stepped up their distributions this year.
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In 1999 alcohol firms invested half as much on lobbying in America as tobacco firms did.
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The country has relatively few listed firms: 60% of corporate assets belong to privately owned firms.
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Most big delivery firms, including Amazon, employ their drivers via small and medium-sized subcontracted firms.
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Some of those firms sport billion-dollar valuations and are backed by major Wall Street firms.
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Private equity firms note that, unlike banks, many of the top executives actually founded their firms.
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The data includes positions at firms that Eric Schmidt owns or controls — Civis Analytics, The Groundwork, and Tomorrow Ventures — along with two law firms and three lobbying firms that have represented Google.
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It uses steady revenues from firms like Apple, which are unwilling to switch to IDM firms like Samsung that are also competitors, to fund R&D that other foundry firms cannot match.
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Big firms saw the strongest improvement in September, with a large firms sub-index rising to 53.8, while one for small firms improved slightly but was still in contraction territory at 49.4.
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It has relatively few listed firms: 60% of corporate assets belong to firms that are privately owned.
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More of those firms are found outside America, where the number of listed firms is still rising.
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Only half a dozen firms assemble military jets whereas over 3,000 firms offer commercial cyber-security services.
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Its aspiring firms have learned a great deal from serving American customers and working with American firms.
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Tech firms, meanwhile, now account for a third of all investment by listed firms, including intellectual property.
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More sophisticated financial firms in London outcompete those in Frankfurt; California's internet firms overwhelm competitors in Paris.
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Pure value baskets are groaning with financial firms; growth indices are crammed with asset-light technology firms.
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As a result of this analysis, 21 new firms joined the top 100 firms for this report.
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A further five firms have two investing partners, and 2154 firms have a single female investing partner.
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We hired firms associated with both Republicans and Democrats — Definers was one of the Republican-affiliated firms.
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Fund firms often are the largest shareholders of publicly traded U.S. firms, giving their votes outsized influence.
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Banks and Wall Street firms has preferred instead to come to bilateral agreements with individual fintech firms.
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Cement firms have not attracted the ire of environmental campaigners in the way that oil firms have.
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That's good for each of our firms, for the people we serve and for our firms' shareholders.
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Fintech firms include payment companies like Venmo and Square and credit firms like SoFi and Lending Club.
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Prior to 2004, wealth-management firms would routinely sue each other when a financial advisor changed firms.
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Small firms with no export licenses can also bundle their products with trading firms that have permits.
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The H-1B visa program tends to be more critical to outsourcing firms than U.S. tech firms.
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Consulting firms are issuing guidance to clientsConsulting firms are trying to help clients on both sides adjust.
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Among them were firms that buy stock orders from retail brokerage firms, known as wholesalers or internalizers.
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The focus on two previously untouched firms shows that efforts to restrict Chinese technology firms are expanding.
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This should appeal to firms if it successfully packages both firms' merchant and financial services capabilities together.
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Chinese firms have made investments in Vaca Muerta, and Russian firms have taken a look as well.
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In the domestic market, foreign firms pay the VAT-rate tariff, and domestic firms pay the VAT.
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There is a cyclical element here: The investment of some firms is the production of other firms.
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Intangible-intensive firms were more affected by changes in financial conditions than tangible-intensive firms, he said.
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Smaller firms may not be ready: Large U.S. firms have kept their eye on GDPR for some time — 4% of revenue is a lot — but smaller firms are in for some rude surprises.
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Some 54 percent of Hispanic-owned firms in affected areas reported natural disaster-related losses, compared to 40 percent of White-owned firms and 35 percent of Black or African American-owned firms.
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Firms in the rest of the world capture 2%, with Chinese firms earning less than the hurdle rate.
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"What about law firms and accounting firms — are they going to be subject to these rules?" he said.
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Smaller, private firms are considered higher credit risks than state-backed firms and more vulnerable to cyclical downturns.
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Frustrations with cost reverberate across the board, among representatives of multinational energy firms, banks, universities and technology firms.
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Hedge funds: Female-owned firms represent 2.23% of all firms and manage 1.5% of total hedge fund AUM.
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So while multinational firms may fight back against this part of Sanders's proposal, smaller firms may welcome it.
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What is more, in many industries, the only competition faced by state firms is from other state firms.
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Gabelli's Sykes said it was more likely that large Asian firms would be buyers of U.S. fund firms.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Private equity firms Bain and Cinven, the buyout firms that have taken control of Stada STAGn.
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In 2002, there were fewer than 1 million minority female-owned firms, or 14% of female-owned firms.
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Trust between firms, and between firms and investors, is more resilient, but there is evidence of greater wariness.
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Still, a concerted effort to shore up trust between consumers and firms, and between firms, would be healthy.
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The remaining firms using local workers then replaced them with machinery to compete with other firms using convicts.
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The firms say the combined entity would add 11,000 additional employees by 2024 compared to the standalone firms.
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In the past, ruthless mainland firms, gobbling up resources firms, caused a backlash in the countries they entered.
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Firms like Second Measure can analyse consumer credit-card transactions to estimate retail sales, including at private firms.
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In theory large asset-management firms might be quietly instructing the firms they own not to undercut rivals.
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Workers covered by small firms contribute $22017,22018 more annually for family health coverage than those at large firms.
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France also promised support to its firms and Italy will allocate 25 billion euros to firms and families.
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However, while expressing support for market reform and private firms, Xi also called for stronger, bigger state firms.
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And since then we've been selling to large firms, [today] most of our revenue comes from large firms.
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Using their market power, such firms choke off innovations that threaten their position, often by purchasing competing firms.
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With higher minimum wages, paid internships cost firms more, so firms may prefer to switch to unpaid interns.
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Companies on this list cannot trade with US firms unless those US firms obtain a special government license.
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James G. Leipold, executive director of the association, noted that larger firms achieved more diversity than smaller firms.
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Firms are skimping on putting controls(here) by firms offering customers' direct access to trade, the report said.
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That way, employees in lower-performing firms would get higher payouts, subsidized by employees in more successful firms.
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Only 27% of American firms in 2017 were highly levered (defined as a debt-to-earnings ratio higher than five), down from 42% of firms in 2007, meaning that fewer firms are immediately at risk.
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The shortlist includes Chinese, other Asian and non-Asian firms, including lithium end-users, firms already in the lithium industry and materials and industrial firms looking to get into the lithium supply chain, Tse said.
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Do short-term firms become weak or do weak firms rationally adopt strategies that might be judged short term?
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The firms include a consortium led by private equity firms Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman, two of the people said.
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Foreign firms are required to join a consortium due to a 40 percent ownership cap in local telecoms firms.
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Online firms have been exempt from regulations that apply to offline firms, he argued in a paper in 2013.
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In time, millions of small firms trading across borders could replace big firms as transmitters of ideas and capital.
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Five of eight firms saw increased business volume but staffing remained largely unchanged, with only two firms adding headcount.
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Exits from the stockmarket by established firms—the second factor behind listed firms' shrinking ranks—are growing in number.
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President Donald Trump barred American firms from using telecoms equipment made by firms posing a "risk to national security".
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Diffusion of technology from top firms in one country to laggard firms in the same country has slowed down.
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Some think oil firms will suffer the same fate as tobacco firms, which faced huge settlements in the 1990s.
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And for those who start their own firms, the value of equity can balloon, especially when firms go public.
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Insurance companies, consulting firms, law firms and cybersecurity companies have largely filled the recovery gap left by law enforcement.
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One is how successful American firms are: they account for 28 of the world's 2600 most valuable listed firms.
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Some large arbitration firms do have a code of conduct, but less scrupulous firms are not policed at all.
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"They really have to have investment money coming in, whether it's from foreign firms or Russian firms," Goodrich said.
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It involved law firms and consultancy firms and allegedly took place between 2006 and 2015, the police statement added.
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Shareholder-advisory firms have issued many more recommendations to vote against FTSE firms' pay policies this year than last.
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While larger firms, real estate firms and insurers had begun to disclose such risks, others were lagging, it said.
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Even as Xi expressed support for market reform and private firms, he also called for stronger, bigger state firms.
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And minority-owned firms that do acquire loans, on average, receive 57 percent less than non-minority-owned firms.
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She added that a solution that might work for some firms might not actually work well for other firms.
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All three of them also have private-sector experience, having worked at law firms and large management consulting firms.
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China is also reportedly working on regulations to ease rules so foreign firms can buy into its security firms.
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Firms in increasingly cosseted national markets are freer now to raise prices without losing share to other European firms.
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Attempts to attract more buyside firms into clearing saw CDSClear offer "Select Membership" to non-dealer firms last year.
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It's difficult to replicate all the services these firms provide, so the effects ripple across other financial services firms.
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Sarbanes-Oxley was focused on massive financial firms but Blunt says smaller firms got caught up in its requirements.
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Wall Street firms say they are tech companies, not Wall Street firms, which is not true but sounds cool.
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Established firms increasingly are differentiating from new firms in terms of both size and the aforementioned skill-set measures.
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Private equity firms operate credit shops and other firms have the backing of large financial institutions and pension funds.
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These could be traded to importing firms here or exporting firms abroad, in a version of cap-and-trade.
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One of the things that used to be in firms, remember I talked about sort of sharing in firms?
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This shift reflects the emergence of new firms in industry hubs such as Frankfurt, Germany's financial centre; Hamburg, which has a cluster of logistics firms; and Munich, home to firms such as BMW, Airbus and Siemens.
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The PMI for large-sized firms fell to 254.4 in June from 254.6 in May, the index for medium-sized firms dipped to 49.9 from 51.0 while that for small firms rose to 49.8 from 49.6.
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The FCA said it would visit some firms to complete a full assessment of the firms' approach to DB advice, focusing on key aspects of firms' business models and processes which could give rise to harm.
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Such a cap would hit education firms like as Academedia and Engelska Skolan but also several private equity-owned firms.
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Firms such as Peugeot, Nissan and Toyota have also opened new operations in Africa, often in partnership with local firms.
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For a graphic on the links between some of China's tech firms in Silicon Valley tech firms, click on tmsnrt.
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The salaries, however, are a benchmark of how major law firms are faring; the most prestigious firms pay the best.
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Private equity firms don't just own physician firms and air ambulances that would be most affected by eradicating surprise bills.
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The vast bulk of infringement litigation is between firms who don't make anything against firms who are trying to innovate.
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A few boutique investment banks and private equity firms have withstood the scale and capital advantages of bulge bracket firms.
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For years Western insurance firms, asset managers and brokerages have been allowed to own only minority stakes in local firms.
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Since 2001 new technologies have percolated from leading firms in one country to equivalent firms in other countries more quickly.
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This will have spillover impacts on related industries, such as shipping, farm input supply firms and trading and brokerage firms.
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The salaries, however, are a benchmark of how major law firms are faring; the most prestigious firms pay the best.
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About 1,700 firms currently participate in the protocol, but Morgan Stanley and UBS are among the four biggest wirehouse firms.
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It says its contracts with the firms were exclusively managed by Chilean businessman Gerardo Sepulveda, Kuczynski's partner at the firms.
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"In Brooklyn, a high percentage of all firms in the borough are 50-person firms or less," Mr. Hoan added.
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Big firms have said that financial advisers built their businesses through the firms' reputations and were leaving with proprietary information.
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Investment banks, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds and elite law firms are already working to structure a potential transaction.
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Only 9% of American firms complain that local private firms get unfair advantages like tax breaks, licensing approvals and subsidies.
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Guangdong province added 0003,000 firms to its business resumption list last week, compared to only 12,000 firms the week before.
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Private equity firms have bought up physician-staffing firms, which has led to an increase in out-of-network billing.
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Nixon speculated that American firms still view Europe as a relatively stable region that's closer than Asia for many firms.
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He expects financial firms to keep tracking tech firms in terms of workplace design — albeit will a several-year lag.
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At least three firms, including Cowen, rate the stock a sell, and at least seven firms rate it a buy.
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Do you really want an economy where you have a small handful of firms, maybe even two firms, running everything?
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What's even more striking is if you go below the aggregate level and look at firms and you see some firms are super successful, posting high returns year after year after year and other firms are pretty mediocre.
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He also thinks Western countries, as a counterbalance to Huawei and other Chinese tech firms, should consider whether domestic firms that provide digital infrastructure should be designated as strategically important, as arms-makers and steel firms often are.
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In the past year, Apple and other foreign tech firms have grappled with a string of new regulatory requirements in China, including a controversial law requiring firms to house user data in data centers overseen by Chinese firms.
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There may be further legal action against the firms that distribute opioid medicines, acting as intermediaries between pharma firms and pharmacies.
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If the federal government ever legalises the drug, tobacco firms would probably swoop in and snap up small, fast-growing firms.
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International data privacy laws require firms to quickly report breaches, well before investigations are complete — potentially forcing firms to overestimate damage.
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Ten bidders are said to have entered the fray for the NAND unit, including chipmakers, tech firms and private-equity firms.
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New capital requirements require firms to have enough liquid funds to survive a crisis and make required payments to other firms.
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The big firms are thinking of how to profit from such new markets—something that small firms might struggle to do.
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Mainland firms are thus ready to make a strong play for markets which neither they nor American firms can call home.
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Many big tech companies employ, mostly through outsourcing firms, thousands of people who police the firms' own services and control quality.
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Of all listed firms, 70% are family-run, compared with 33% for Chinese firms and 40% for Hong Kong-based ones.
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But consumer firms led the declines on Monday, with a sub-index of the CSI tracking consumer firms plunging 07343 percent.
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American firms' exposure to foreign markets of any kind has stagnated for a decade as firms have made hay at home.
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The challenge for private firms is not so much how to compete against state firms as how to coexist with them.
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Was there any of, "We're sick of these big firms, these big dude firms, and we want to start our own"?
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Among the companies creating more jobs were information and communication firms, education and health providers, restaurants as well as construction firms.
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Under Rule 3110{here}, member firms must do the following: —Conduct background verifications for new hires and transfers from other firms.
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The loss of "passporting" rights, enabling firms based in Britain to provide financial services across the EU, would hamper fintech firms.
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Some trucking firms will not work with drivers who have rented from A.T.G. One of the firms is Bruce Oakley Inc.
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When Say's law fails to hold, workers lack jobs because firms lack customers, and firms lack customers because workers lack jobs.
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Contrary to protectionist claims that only the wealthy would accrue gains, exporting firms pay more than firms that only sell domestically.
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Any opening of the Kaesong Industrial Complex would have South Korean firms working with North Korean firms to arrange the manpower.
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Banks generally do not do due diligence on the clients of law firms, leaving that step to the law firms themselves.
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FINRA, an association of Wall Street firms, plays an essential role in regulating brokerage firms and exercises power granted by Congress.
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Financial firms are increasingly appointing "chief data officers" as cooperation agreements between financial firms and data providers proliferate, the regulators said.
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A stock index tracking state-owned firms has outperformed an index of private firms by about 15 percentage points this year.
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The data is paid for as fees to exchanges by individual firms as well as consortiums of firms crossing trades internally.
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The big picture: Tech firms work with dozens of outside experts, including cybersecurity firms and intelligence agencies, to detect these threats.
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Investment in Britain's financial firms is falling, and firms like BlackRock and Citigroup plan to move employees to Paris from London.
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While she found that the old-guard firms were not interested in her business, newer firms have popped up to help.
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In firms with more daughters, 12 percent of new hires were women, compared with 9 percent in firms with more sons.
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Most law firms would see Mr. Comey as a big get, said Allan Ripp, a public relations consultant for law firms.
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Cryptocurrency firms gained attention in their early days through promises to revolutionize financial services by rendering established intermediaries and firms obsolete.
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Smaller firms are more vulnerable to a recession—and, by relying on them for revenue, so are the co-working firms.
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Firms with fewer than 50 employees added 66,000 workers, while mid-sized firms — between 50 and 499 employees — added 77,85033 workers.
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"It's a natural way our economy recycles cash from old successful firms to new entrepreneurial firms," Hassett told CNN's Poppy Harlow.
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Lawyers at American tech firms dived into obscure branches of export law that their firms had never before had to consider.
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In the foreign market, domestic firms pay no tax on their sales, because the VAT is rebated; neither do foreign firms.
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Private equity firms and public pension funds have long had a symbiotic relationship: The funds supply the firms with billions of dollars to invest, and the firms deliver double-digit returns that help the funds support retired public servants.
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Priority when choosing suppliers will be given to Russian and Chinese firms, and then to Western firms with Russian or Chinese partners' joint ventures, he said, adding that the basic principle should be that the firms offer competitive proposals.
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Between 603 and 2015, listed chemical firms produced total returns to shareholders of 300%, three times higher than firms across all sectors.
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The Markit report focuses more on small- and medium-sized firms as opposed to larger state-owned firms in the official survey.
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Some agriculture firms had rallied on Monday amid expectations that domestic agriculture firms could benefit if Beijing retaliated against higher U.S. tariffs.
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But it does mean that seed firms have been presented with this expanded territory from which these other firms have backed away.
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Sweat Equity is able to work alongside traditional venture firms while providing services smaller firms can't offer on their own, he said.
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The corresponding question is you've now been at three firms, sounds like when you were at Pinterest you were dealing with firms.
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Ideally, infrastructure firms would face enough competition to keep prices low, and content firms would battle to sell services over that infrastructure.
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Most private-equity firms are private partnerships and do not face the level of scrutiny accorded to publicly listed firms like KKR.
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The European Commission reckons digital firms pay 9.5% in income tax on average, compared with 23.2% for firms with "traditional business models".
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That is partly because consultants typically help struggling firms cut costs; they have less appeal to firms already on the cutting edge.
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FOR EUROPEAN firms operating in Asia, or Latin American and Asian firms hustling in Africa or the Middle East, business risks abound.
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American firms made roughly $200bn more in sales in China in 2015 than Chinese firms did in America, according to Deutsche Bank.
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Instead of a swarm of small firms attacking incumbents, the economy's main source of competition is less than a dozen tech firms.
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China announced plans to create a list of "unreliable" foreign firms, groups and individuals deemed harmful to the interests of Chinese firms.
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The CSI300 consumer sub-index was 3.07 percent lower, health care firms lost 2.58 percent and financial firms were 13 percent lower.
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In addition, China forces foreign firms to transfer their technology to Chinese companies and comprehensively loots commercial secrets, especially from American firms.
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"We help tech firms map their future hiring needs and retail firms re-engage past talent that didn't get hired," he adds.
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Chinese approaches to foreign semiconductor firms—unlike its firms' acquisitions of foreign consumer brands—have not always met with a warm reception.
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Telecoms firms have long complained about tech firms who can provide messaging or calling services without being subject to the same rules.
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Boutique financial services firms, public relations firms, marketing companies and information services shops — anyone with a laptop can start a business anywhere.
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We don't know if that's because the firms fired their client, or or Tesla fired its firms, for example, to save money.
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That matters because buyout firms and hedge funds are at heart people businesses – if top talent leaves, the firms can quickly wither.
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One could argue that younger venture firms are almost by definition smaller venture firms, meaning diversity can come a bit more easily.
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International standards on "beneficial" owners (the real people, as opposed to other firms, behind firms) have been tightened, but remain quite loose.
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Foreign genetics firms currently only sell 'grandparent' stock to Chinese breeders, from which local firms can breed and sell progeny to farmers.
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In a more competitive market, upstart firms would hire labour and pressure big firms to use their cash for job-creating investments.
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VCs at firms with less than $250 million assets under management (AUM), for example, earn less than their counterparts at larger firms.
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It is hard to tell if diversity helps firms do well, or if successful firms are also more enlightened on other matters.
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They have called for U.S. firms to reduce their supply chain dependence on China and limit Chinese firms' access to U.S. technology.
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In the first, Silicon Valley firms make all the running as they create new markets and eviscerate weak firms in sleepy industries.
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Another slice of graduates joins small firms with two to 10 lawyers, or large law firms, or enters the public interest sector.
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This is particularly true for VIP individuals and elite organizations such as law firms, lobbying firms, political action committees, and advocacy organizations.
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Other companies involved in the space include ride-hailing firms Uber and Lyft, as well as less-prominent firms like Delphi Automotive.
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Service firms, which handle drilling and hydraulic fracturing in the oil field, had a more bearish outlook than exploration and production firms.
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Compared to many French VC firms, Alven Capital gets its funds from traditional limited partners that usually invest in private equity firms.
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For example, a growing gap between firms that mainly sell to businesses and consumer-facing firms that make money on digital advertising.
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Debt-laden big listed firms, meanwhile, are still reluctant to undertake new investments, and foreign firms can find India's labyrinthine regulations overwhelming.
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Just as startups raise funding rounds from VC firms, those firms raise their funds from limited partners, typically referred to as LPs.
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Often, it is difficult to figure out where venture capital firms are getting their money, because the firms rarely disclose that information.
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AB5 stops the rip off of big tech firms and some smaller trucking firms who misclassify drivers and others as "independent contractors".
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The prestige VC firms will resist this, but there are already a few new VC firms at the margins that are tokenizing.
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An index tracking major IT firms rose more than 4 percent, while an index tracking major telecoms firms gained nearly 4 pct.
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The pattern of net new business creation (new firms minus firms going out of business) reveals an even sharper reversal of fortune.
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But even the bigger deals tend to be managed by Canadian firms, thanks to the lack of regulatory risk those firms face.
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Plaintiffs' lawyers and investment firms argue that the money the firms provide makes it possible to pursue costly litigation against large companies.
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More than a fifth (22 percent) of firms in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and Canada, and 2400 percent of firms in Asia, outsource all or part of their compliance functionality, compared with 42 percent of firms in the United States.
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The PMI survey also showed smaller firms were still bearing the brunt of the pressure in February while large firms - many of them state-owned enterprises - stayed afloat, despite targeted policy measures to help struggling private firms refinance and increase capacity.
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It is unclear how much money Apple and other technology firms involved in the F.B.I. litigation have paid to the firms where the former officials now work; most of the firms declined to discuss their private business dealings, calling them irrelevant.
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It would tax firms that spend between $500,000 and $2000 million on lobbying at a rate of 22017%, which increases to a 210% rate on firms that spend above $230 million and 250% on firms that spend above $10 million.
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Most of the time, businesses outsource at least part of those financial functions to the big four accounting firms or to smaller firms, but as with all consulting firms, getting contracts signed and work underway can take significant time and effort.
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"Firms may have become increasingly unequal in the earnings they pay their workers above common market wages … because some firms had become economic 'winners' and are sharing the increased profits with their workers, whereas other 'loser' firms are not," they write.
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They were followed by other firms specialising in advising midcap and smaller firms - Finncap and Peel Hunt ranked third, each with 119 clients.
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In other words, the former Goldman Sachs president supports a separation between firms that trade and underwrite securities and firms that issue loans.
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According to EY's study, Brexit and European Union stability were cited as more fundamental concerns for financial services firms than for manufacturing firms.
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This would make the firms subject to periodic SEC examinations, which would include a serious review of the firms' conflicts of interest policies.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's accounting watchdog said on Monday it may ban accounting firms from providing consultancy work to firms whose books they check.
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And when Time Warner and other media firms raise the fees they charge the pipe firms, the latter pass this on to consumers.
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Investors in private-equity firms (as opposed to investors in the funds run by those firms) have their own reasons to withhold applause.
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More firms in Europe were using passporting than UK-based firms but the data show heavy skewing towards London as a financial centre.
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But, as in other industries, large financial firms also have cost advantages in some areas and can provide services that smaller firms cannot.
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Other research suggests that these firms nonetheless pay more, in gross terms, than ordinary firms, so their rise has directly contributed to inequality.
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Large state firms have dominated the growth scene, while small and mid-sized private firms that the Caixin survey focuses on have struggled.
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Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and one of Taiwan's best-known firms, is among the firms dogged by speculation about succession.
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Young firms are disproportionately important for job growth, for example; if fewer firms are formed, it will affect everyone in the labour market.
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American firms have $8trn of capital sunk abroad; foreign firms have $7trn in America; and there have been 15,000 inbound deals since 2008.
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It includes public relations firms and law firms and trade associations and what look like "independent" policy organizations paid out of corporate coffers.
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Moody's has indicated that the types of companies most at risk include financial firms, securities firms, hospitals, market infrastructure providers and electric utilities.
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While the number of deals with corporate venture capital firms has declined, more investment firms are cropping up to support early-stage companies.
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Now we have more stories but no documentation that 'many' firms are leaving, given the huge number of foreign firms operating in China.
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Lots of top investing firms have two teams that operate semi-independently, and those firms don't feel the need to go separate ways.
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U.S. firms also would be barred from participating in energy exploration projects where Russian firms have a stake of 33 percent or higher.
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If big firms are liable for the actions of small firms and franchises, they are unlikely to do business with them any longer.
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Investment firms have been late to recognize the desire of the Amazon-generation to be tech-empowered in their engagement with investment firms.
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The other side: India-based IT firms, most of which are classified as H-1B dependent firms, say the bill discriminates against them.
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Chafer also attacked telecom firms with aerospace clients, although it is unclear whether the goal was those clients or the telecom firms themselves.
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Daiwa, looking to earn more money from advising mid-sized firms, bought two boutique M&A advisory firms in New York and Baltimore.
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Firms would like to be where there are workers, suppliers and infrastructure; workers want places where firms are already offering good new jobs.
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SI - had also reached out to other telecoms firms, cash-rich business groups in China and Japanese tech firms to gauge their interest.
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But with some firms not participating, firms and advisors will have to be more sensitive about the information they can take, he said.
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Among the firms recognized in Working Mother's 2017 edition of "50 Best Law Firms for Women," 20 percent of equity partners are women.
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Because these firms generally don't invest in the industry, many small cannabis industry-specific investment firms, have crept up to fill the gaps.
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The Chinese firms are already prevented from working with major U.S. carriers but their products are popular among upstarts and smaller rural firms.
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The guidelines encourage institutional investors such as state-owned enterprises, insurance firms and university funds to invest in venture capital firms and funds.
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Here's what we found: Older firms raise bigger funds, and appear to account for a majority of capital raised by U.S. venture firms.
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The Trump administration is accusing Chinese firms of stealing intellectual property and forcing U.S. firms to share commercial secrets - allegations that China denies.
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Financial firms gained 0.82%, the consumer staples sector rose 0.07%, real estate firms climbed 0.28% and the healthcare sub-index was up 6.86623%.
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Yi and senior regulators pledged targeted measures to help ease firms' financing problems and encourage commercial banks to boost lending to private firms.
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US firms also would be barred from participating in energy exploration projects where Russian firms have a stake of 33 percent or higher.
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If Europe were a true single market, firms based there would expand at home before venturing overseas, as American tech firms typically do.
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Under the ethical guidelines of the New York State bar association, law firms hiring investigative firms are generally responsible for monitoring their actions.
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CHINA CENTRAL BANK SAYS 300 BLN YUAN OF NEW RE-LENDING QUOTA TO TARGET SMALLER FIRMS, 100 BLN YUAN WILL TARGET AGRICULTURAL FIRMS
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Although major firms have managed to lift wages around 2 percent a year for the last few years, smaller firms have lagged behind.
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The private survey tends to focus on smaller firms while the official PMI covers mostly larger firms, many of them state-owned manufacturers.
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That might explain why firms like Bessemer Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, both traditionally early-stage firms, announced mega growth funds in 2019.
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Firms will need to keep pace with the regulators' growing ability to accumulate and analyze vast amounts of data as they examine firms.
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In spite of the increasing number of information operations being attributed to PR or marketing firms, Ingham said, these firms are the exception.
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Women-owned firms are growing at four times the rate of men-owned firms and contribute $2202 trillion to the American economy. 2628.
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Axelrod said that FINRA gives extra scrutiny to former executives of expelled firms after they show up with new jobs at other firms.
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In fact, I put out a letter saying that I don't make — from one of the most highly respected law firms, accounting firms.
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Workers in low-wage firms also face much higher deductibles: a $2,679 annual single deductible, while at other firms, the average is $1,610.
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"This is very confusing, and its not just confusing for American firms," Lovely says, adding that it casts a shadow of uncertainty for "Japanese firms, Taiwanese firms" and many other international companies seeking to do business with the United States and China.
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To the extent that existing participation by U.S. firms in a given project takes the form of illiquid assets – say, physical investments in pipeline infrastructure – the U.S. firms simply would lose their investments, enriching others generally and perhaps, ironically, Russian firms in particular.
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Although law firms often donate time to individual causes, and some firms have worked on gun control on a piecemeal basis, the number and the prominence of the firms involved in the new coalition are unheard-of for modern-day big law.
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The line between beating rival firms with savvy competition (good) and beating rival firms by abusing market power (bad) becomes very important to draw.
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PokitDok is backed by more than $55 million in venture capital from firms including McKesson's ventures arm and a slew of other investment firms.
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In the early '90s, about 70 percent of firms backed by venture capitalists exited through IPOs, with the remainder taking buyouts from other firms.
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The high valuations of tech firms, combined with pace and peril of changing tech trends, make the sector an odd target for buyout firms.
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Expectations for those employees in firms with lower performance showed lower bonus expectations, and the opposite was true for employees at high-performing firms.
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Chief Executive Bernard Berson added that the most likely targets would be family-owned firms or food-service groups held by private equity firms.
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It might sound "fair" to subject Chinese firms in Europe to the restrictions European firms face in China, but it would be a mistake.
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Although firms with diversity statements in their ads attracted fewer whitened résumés from minority applicants, they were actually no less discriminatory than other firms.
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Such firms also tend to be more capital-intensive, because selling into those broader markets allows firms to reduce capital costs per unit sold.
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Accustomed to dealing with huge defence departments with long procurement cycles, firms lacked experience in appealing to picky private firms with shorter time horizons.
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Access to equity markets for energy firms comes at an opportune time for private equity firms seeking to cash out of long-held investments.
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Although most of the moderators work for third-party firms, the growth in their numbers has already had an impact on the firms' finances.
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Japanese firms are also unenthusiastic: Only 4 percent of large and mid-sized firms plan to use bitcoin, showed a Reuters poll last month.
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Like in other markets, traditional taxi firms in Singapore have been hit by the growth of ride-hailing firms such as Grab and Uber.
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Claims would also be pursued against 27 bond underwriters, nine law firms, and five accounting firms, according to an attorney for the oversight board.
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The plaintiffs' firms agreed that Gigamon's supplemental disclosures adequately addressed their allegations; Gigamon agreed it would pay the firms a (yet undetermined) mootness fee.
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A CSI300 sub-index tracking the real estate sector ended 1.4 percent lower, industrial firms fell 1.2 percent and healthcare firms lost 2.4 percent.
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Retailer Marks & Spencer performed best of the FTSE 100 firms, scoring 78 out of 100 points in the annual evaluation of the firms' statements.
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Firms such as Amazon and Google have the resources and technical expertise to pose a serious threat to incumbent firms like Microsoft and Sony.
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Authorities in some places have been increasing incentives for firms to "self-report", handing over some of the job of policing to firms themselves.
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Such firms used state-owned land and shares in local state firms as collateral to raise money from banks, the bond market and consumers.
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In 2016 alone, according to the Taiwan-based Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, Chinese firms invested over $26 billion in foreign IT firms.
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Chinese banks have traditionally been more reluctant to lend to small and private firms, which they consider to be riskier than state-owned firms.
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That's not how law firms are supposed to behave – especially law firms like Proskauer, which has a long history of expertise in employment law.
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Exporting firms in all countries and across a variety of industries are more productive, grow faster and pay higher wages than non-exporting firms.
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Currently, less than 29 percent of decision-makers at VC firms are women and 2000 percent of U.S. VC firms have zero female investors.
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Corporations and their affiliated venture capital firms accounted for more than a third of investment, while independent venture capital firms made up 19 percent.
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And his "pro-business" programme seems to be more about what firms can do for the mayor than what he can do for firms.
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The rules may also hasten formal partnerships between traditional banks and brokerage firms and the financial technology firms that have built robo-investing platforms.
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What hampers growth, at least according to bigger firms, is a lack of harmonisation that makes it harder for firms to operate across borders.
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Big, old firms try to package themselves as nimble and open because they have to compete ever harder for talent, including against tech firms.
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The weak results caused analysts to rethink their ratings, and five firms downgraded GrubHub on Tuesday, including two firms that double downgraded the stock.
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A number of investment firms, including Affiliated Managers, specialize in buying stakes in investment management firms to help them broaden their appeal to investors.
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Some German firms have expressed fears that the quotas would restrict their market share and pose an extra hurdle for European firms in China.
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Diversity VC found that a tiny proportion of the top decision-makers at investment firms were women, and many firms have zero female representation.
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They have breached law firms and accounting firms, and last year they even made off with flight records for millions of United Airlines passengers.
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It's also important to remember that amicus briefs represent the views of firms' clients, not necessarily those of the law firms that sign them.
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Law Firms Bolster Antitrust Practices It's hiring season for law firms looking to prepare themselves for a heightened scrutiny of mergers by competition regulators.
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ALL THE TARIFFS THAT THE PRESIDENT PUT IN PLACE HAS TRIGGERED NEW INVESTMENT HERE IN AMERICA, BOTH BY DOMESTIC FIRMS AND BY FOREIGN FIRMS.
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Large state firms have greater access to funds at cheaper rates even though on the whole they are less efficient than smaller private firms.
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China has 112 central state-owned firms, or those directly managed by the central government, and thousands of firms are owned by local governments.
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Big financial firms outside the banking sector remain largely out of regulatory oversight, including asset managers, hedge funds, private equity firms and big insurers.
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Law firms are turning more frequently to outside sources, according to a Burford survey of firms and in-house corporate counsel released in May.
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"You can distinguish between the more cautious corporate strategy of firms versus the unadulterated view of people who work in those firms," Cain said.
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Business Insider spoke with three veteran headhunters who&aposve worked closely with these firms and candidates applying to these firms to get their advice.
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By 2010-14, very rural counties saw zero net growth in new firms, while the biggest counties boomed with 58 percent of new firms.
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Parliament gave the green-light for the government to increase the capital of 21 state firms, but rejected proposed injections to three unlisted firms.
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The industry's biggest firms were hit hardest with HFR reporting that investors pulled $22 billion out of firms that managed $5 billion or more.
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Investment firms are lending money to law firms that bring so-called mass torts and providing cash advances to plaintiffs involved in such litigation.
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The trend is especially pronounced among micro-venture firms, many started by notable female VCs, including Aileen Lee at Cowboy Ventures, Sonja Perkins at the Perkins Fund, Theresia Gouw, and Jennifer Fonstad at Aspect Ventures, who left established venture firms to start their own firms.
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In memory chips of either the DRAM or flash variety, Chinese firms' chances would be bolstered if they could persuade some of the largest foreign firms to form technology-sharing alliances, enlisting those firms to help overcome their home governments' curbs on technology transfer.
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It's a multibillion-dollar global industry whose participants include crisis management firms, lobby groups, strategic communications groups, corporate law firms, global PR firms, think tanks, LLCs, advocacy groups, nonprofits and charities, websites, superPACs and media outlets acting on behalf of donors or paid clients.
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Life has become far too comfortable for some firms in the old economy, while, in the new economy, tech firms have rapidly built market power.
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Big firms may cope with extra expenses, and Ireland could gain some investment after Brexit, notably in financial services, as firms leave London for Dublin.
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Smaller and mid-sized firms could develop a niche, by product or geography, while larger firms will likely provide higher-value services to fewer clients.
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Many firms are discovering that leaving China is not so easy Rising costs led some electronics firms to consider moving out a few years ago.
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The Public Citizen report details 26 lawmakers who joined lobbying firms this year, and even more who joined corporate boards, law firms, and broadcast networks.
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Based on several years of studying cases of family firms across Asia, here are four steps that firms should consider to successfully incorporate outside professionals.
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Unblocking the backlog of 22,000 applications for approval for sale (by foreign and domestic firms) will stiffen competition, which weaker firms may struggle to withstand.
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The median odds of any one of the firms achieving this are 14%, based on the performance of all listed firms in America since 1950.
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"Yet revisiting pricing strategy is not top of mind for firms," the report said, adding that 90 percent of firms aren't reviewing their pricing strategy.
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Large firms are moving cautiously nonetheless—particularly as cannabis is not fully legalised yet across America—leaving smaller firms to make most of the running.
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No announcement has been made yet about any foreign firms on the list, but the fear is that it could target American firms, including chipmakers.
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Many state firms are propped up by the cheap capital they enjoy from state-owned banks (which are averse to lending to riskier private firms).
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Most stocks for major publicly-traded firms — along with related marketing tech and data broker firms — experienced gains in the first quarter of this year.
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Rudi Klein, head of the Specialist Engineering Contractors' Group, representing thousands of engineering firms, estimates that Carillion owed about £2bn to 30,000 or so firms.
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The PMI showed that large firms continued to be the best performers in November, though the gap between smaller firms narrowed from the previous month.
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It's certainly true that big firms' pro bono practices usually skew left, so it's not surprising to see firms representing civil and religious rights organizations.
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But you don&apost buy -- you don&apost private investigator firms, news outlets don&apost pay private investigator firms to dig up dirt on campaigns.
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Whereas 18% of small and medium-sized firms export, only a tenth of small and medium family firms do, although they tend to be smaller.
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Security teams at large financial services firms and businesses were reviewing plans for defending against ransomware attacks, according to executives with private cyber security firms.
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But private firms still complain of unfair competition with state firms and restricted access to some markets, especially in key parts of the services sector.
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Non-European and British firms are preparing for the possibility that UK-licensed firms could lose the right to offer services in any EU country.
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It can drive firms to cut corners but in the long run should act to discipline careless or badly behaved firms, because customers shun them.
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Meanwhile, private equity firms love a fertile market, and with so little Wall Street action, firms were more than happy to the fill the void.
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Chinese firms, including Bank of China, China International Capital Corp, investment firms Hillhouse Capital and Primavera, and the Shanghai Stock Exchange, will also send representatives.
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The United States has said foreign firms in China are often coerced to transfer their technology to Chinese firms if they want to operate there.
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The companies vying for contracts included architecture firms, defense contractors, security companies, engineering firms, and others, but the four selected are all general construction providers.
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In recent months, state-owned firms and various arms of government have been rushing to buy, invest in or do deals with overseas microchip firms.
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While it expects trading to initially come from firms in the advertising market, it hopes that the asset class will generate interest from financial firms.
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Some rich-world firms may now find Chinese ownership more attractive than suffering the rules of Western stockmarkets or the meddling of private-equity firms.
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"As for servers, North American internet data center firms as well as Chinese firms led by Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are increasing investment," he added.
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It will follow up with individual firms where failures were identified, and expects all firms in the sector to review their policies, procedures and controls.
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In 2014 the top 500 listed firms made about 45% of the global profits of all American firms, as they did in the late 1990s.
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Second, passive investors are condemned to own the shares of some of the biggest firms, which means they value maintaining decent relationships with these firms.
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Currently it holds particular appeal among workers at firms in the internet, media and advertising industries, and among teams of software developers within larger firms.
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Some companies on the list of 220006 firms had previously been reported by The New York Times, including device-makers, telecommunications companies and software firms.
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Some companies on the list of 52 firms had previously been reported by The New York Times, including device-makers, telecommunications companies and software firms.
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Most center on large firms paying billions of dollars in bribes to politicians and executives at state-run firms in exchange for winning massive contracts.
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For years Turkish firms have borrowed in euros and dollars, to take advantage of lower rates, but that has exposed firms to substantial currency risk.
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Dettman said Have Her Back lacked the bureaucracy of larger firms and had expertise in dealing with gender-specific issues that those big firms lack.
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The nonprofits, LLCs, super PACs, PR firms, crisis management companies and global law firms that organize and promote smears have formed a multibillion-dollar industry.
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Financial firms, in particular banking stocks led the decline on Tuesday, after Beijing ordered banks and insurers to sharply step up lending to private firms.
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The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which represents U.S. biopharmaceutical firms and researchers, had said the change would penalize firms for successful drug development.
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In signs of continued interest in major firms with solid growth, an index tracking top firms listed in Shanghai has gained 19.4 percent this year.
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He said he and Manafort had introduced the advocacy group to the firms and sometimes consulted with the firms on Ukrainian politics, the report said.
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Small businesses make up 99.7 percent of employer firms in the United States, but only 23 percent of federal prime contracts go to small firms.
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Its system is now in use at four of the top 10 legal firms in the U.S., and five of the top 20 accounting firms.
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Law firms reduce "chance of mass infection" As more people test positive or law firms restrict travel, there could be additional disruptions to specific cases.
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Gilholm of Control Risks said the big question for U.S. firms and politicians would be whether the issue would hit other deals involving American firms.
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However, the factors that have helped buoy firms owned by women are also bolstering firms owned by men – and it seems to a greater extent.
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A number of international oil firms have a presence in Libya including France's Total, Eni of Italy, U.S. firms ConocoPhillips and Hess, and Germany's Wintershall.
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The reported change in the number of jobs at law firms is much lower than hiring because of attrition from law firms to other employers.
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As of February, more than 150 Chinese firms are listed on the Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange and NYSE American exchange for small cap firms.
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Many firms operating in California will not be able to reinvent their workforces overnight, especially large digital logistics firms like Uber, Lyft, Instacart and Grubhub.
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Chemical firms only expect slow export growth but engineering firms and companies in the electrical sector expect to get extra impetus from abroad, he added.
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Unlike the era when I was FCC chair, today U. S. firms in all sectors face vigorous competition in global markets from firms in China.
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Regulators will speed up approvals for private firms' initial public offerings and refinancing activities, and allow such firms to issue convertible bonds, the cabinet said.
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Firms with many low-wage workers make their employees pay about $1,0003 more, for a total of $7,047, than firms with few low-wage workers.
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The company has a long history with buyout firms, having been taken private by a consortium of six firms in 2006 for about $10 billion.
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The marketing firms become like committed customers to the line, and pay the same rates for the space as the firms with long-term contracts.
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Another concern is that Malaysian firms may find themselves facing stiff competition from Chinese firms — many of which are supported by the government in Beijing.
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Figures from the Ministry of Military Production - one of three main bodies that oversee military firms - show that revenues at its firms are rising sharply.
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If that's true, then a proposal that pools earnings within the "winner" firms, and within the "loser" firms, wouldn't target a potent source of inequality.
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In recent years, there have been firms known for investing in early-stage companies that have added funds to back late-stage companies; late-stage firms adding early-stage funds; U.S. firms adding China funds; and China firms adding U.S. funds — all part of an effort by investors to take advantage of a decade-long global bull market by making more bets in the technology field.
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Privatisation works when firms can run assets or services more efficiently than the government can, or when competition between firms can bring down costs over time.
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Many US and Canadian firms continue to struggle: over 212 firms owing a collective US$68bn have filed for bankruptcy since the start of last year.
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Companies rely on accounting firms to manage these processes, but firms are often slow and outdated in an internet age where everything is digital and flexible.
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Services slowed and retail firms experienced one of their weakest performances in the history of the survey as e-commerce firms gobbled up more market share.
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He also urged the government to improve management of state firms and speed up privatization, pointing out that state firms are less effective than private ones.
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Banks will withdraw support for financially unviable firms, he added, repeating pledges by other officials last year to drive such "zombie" firms out of the market.
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Not only do men hold most of the leadership positions at venture capital firms, but they also get most of the money those firms dole out.
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Morgan Stanley is the lead adviser to Humana and the private equity firms and JP Morgan is also a lead adviser to the private equity firms.
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Those that are used to working in multinational firms are bewildered by the chaos, weak systems and lack of management quality they find in family firms.
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To a growing extent, the productivity gap between technologically advanced firms and laggards suggests anti-competitive behaviour rather than the superior innovative capacity of top firms.
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Some PE firms are so interested in investing in cybersecurity firms, they're lowering their minimum investment expectations to get in the game before companies get acquired.
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Private equity firms originally designated law firms to ensure that they were working with trusted partners and to avoid multiple legal opinions on the same deal.
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Additionally, law firms that would help advise on the shareholder's campaign also count these firms as clients and would be more hesitant in helping the activist.
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In 2321 fertility firms received $299m from venture capitalists and private-equity firms, compared with less than $231m in 113, according to Pitchbook, a data provider.
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The two firms are set to join a tiny elite of multinational financial firms that derive a significant share of their global profits from mainland China.
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In 2015 Chinese firms accounted for more than half the value added by Prato's textile and clothing firms, according to Tuscany's Regional Institute for Economic Planning.
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Shenzhen authorities also said they had banned financial institutions including online firms and small lending firms from offering margin lending to home buyers, according to Xinhua.
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Over half of all financial firms surveyed said the general impact of Britain's Brexit vote was negative, with only one in ten firms seeing any upside.
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We looked at firms that closed at least 22010 rounds between 22015 and 153, and found 215 firms that surpassed the industry average of 22010 percent.
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Berlin's Senator for Economics, Technology and Research Cornela Yzer has sent letters to British firms and hopes to lure tech firms from London's start-up scene.
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Many U.S.-listed Chinese firms have complex governance structures such as weighted voting rights (WVR) which are currently not allowed for firms listed on mainland exchanges.
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Impact-investment firms used to be small and niche, but two of America's largest private-equity firms, Bain Capital and TPG, have recently launched such funds.
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This will benefit firms that operate large assets, such as airlines, oil firms, energy companies and industrial giants, where unexpected breakdowns come at a big cost.
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The study titled "Women in Law Firms" was based on data provided by 23 law firms and survey responses from more than 2,500 of their lawyers.
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Economist cover leader "Terror and the internet: Tech firms could do more to help stop the jihadists": [T]he firms can act when they want to.
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Researchers found that by the end of the study period, firms that reported had overall wage bills that were 2.8 percent lower than control group firms.
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These firms are run like typical venture firms and are primarily driven to maximize financial returns, and the firm's partners are rewarded for making profitable investments.
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THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS I THINK THE LAW FIRMS THAT WE HAVE EMPLOYED TOP NOTCH BLUE CHIP LAW FIRMS AND GAVE US GOOD ADVICE.
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Last week's strikes cost carmakers, automotive suppliers and engineering firms almost 200 million euros ($249 million) in lost revenues, affecting big firms like Daimler, BMW (BMWG.
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Like many fintech firms, Klarna believes that its algorithms do a better job of identifying creditworthy customers than the arthritic systems used by conventional financial firms.
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Chinese firms have invested in overseas clubs, player agencies and media rights firms, and global soccer stars have moved to China in multi-million dollar deals.
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Women represent only 22 percent of partners in CPA accounting firms, although two out of the big four firms — Deloitte and KPMG — have women chief executives.
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Large firms, many state-owned, continued to outperform at the expense of small and mid-sized firms, with medium-sized companies backsliding the most in October.
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In the 22019 class of lawmakers-turned-lobbyists, 15 former members are lobbying at firms and two started their own firms, The Hill reported last week.
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Avolon received advice from UBS and Morgan Stanley; the law firms Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; and the consulting firms KPMG and E&Y.
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And it created a Fintech Industry Committee, consisting of firms of all sizes plus some non-member firms that offer such technology, to analyze fintech developments.
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The report also chided large firms, saying they refused to discuss breaches and noting that most law firms are not obligated to report data breaches publicly.
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According to lobbying records, the company has hired three lobbying firms and spent $28503,22019 so far in 2018, compared to $120,000 on two firms in 2017.
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Babione said Lockheed had begun looking at which firms could take over the work now done by Canadian firms, but had not made any firm decisions.
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The Keidanren business lobby represents only the country's largest firms, but its vocal endorsement of wage hikes could encourage more mid-sized firms to follow suit.
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Pandza said that about 10,000 jobs at dozens of Bosnian aluminium processing firms relying on Aluminij's supplies, as well as at contracting firms, were at risk.
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The consumer bureau, which has taken legal action against some debt settlement firms for making misleading claims, offers more tips about the firms on its website.
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Victim companies in the United states included two media and entertainment companies, one law firm, 11 technology firms, and two bank and investment firms, among others.
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The law firms represented 92 former players before they retained Pisarcik, then signed up an additional 241 clients after he became a consultant to the firms.
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But private equity firms typically look for undervalued firms they can purchase and either combine with other properties or find ways to build up their value.
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PR: Well, certainly, there's a lot of activity in law firms, in advisory firms, professional services generally, to try and help clients navigate all this complexity.
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PE firms can move quickly and offer fewer restrictionsPrivate equity firms also tend to be far less bureaucratic than corporate merger-and-acquisition departments, they said.
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Qatar has nearly a dozen Washington firms on retainer, including a firm run by former Attorney General John Ashcroft and public affairs firms Mercury and Levick.
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Revenue for all the 43 U.S. firms in the list adds up to $246 billion, around 59% of all arms sales by the top 100 firms.
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It is forcing consolidation of existing firms into globally-competitive national champions, and using opaque state-supported financing to acquire foreign firms with desired technology. ADVERTISEMENTgoogletag.cmd.
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"Most firms are market-first; they're in a market or not," Mr. Hyatt, a serial entrepreneur who joined Spark in 2012, said of other firms' focuses.
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FIRMS PUSH TECHNICAL EDUCATION: In a letter on Friday, firms including IBM, Dell and HP urged lawmakers to reauthorize a bill supporting career and technical education.
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Central Asia's biggest economy has sold more than 120 small and mid-sized firms in its privatisation drive, and has been preparing larger firms for sale.
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Were governments to impose a swingeing tax on carbon, many fossil-fuel firms would get into financial trouble, as would firms that depend on dirty inputs.
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If concentration is caused by ultra-productive firms outcompeting weaker rivals, then investment ought to rise as those firms scale up to exploit their competitive edge.
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Research published in August from Morgan Stanley asserts that firms that prioritize gender diversity, and have the reports to show for it, outperform less diverse firms.
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In addition, sellside firms require more efficient use of their securities collateral and access to new liquidity providers, including buyside firms, to meet their collateral needs.
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Many firms missed the window to improve their balance sheet positions, ensuring the wild price action in stocks delivered little benefit to firms or investors alike.
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They can be great sources of collaboration and inspiration for employees of larger firms, particularly when groups are comprised of individuals across diverse, non-competing firms.
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These firms have the highest number of clients of any Am Law firms, with American Bar Association Resolution 113 signatory clients (firms that have pledged to promoting diversity in the legal profession), and have received recognition from Working Mother since the inception of the award in 2007.
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The regulators did not prohibit marijuana firms with U.S. ties from listing in Canada, leaving room for any firms rejected by TMX to move to other exchanges.
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In 1956 regulators forced IBM to give other firms access to its patents in return for a fair fee, a decision that helped new tech firms emerge.
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Bernstein Litowitz and Kessler Topaz were on the NYC funds' panel of pre-approved firms and received the funds' trading data along with four other shareholders' firms.
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Liu told the newspaper that Chinese firms accounted for less than one percent of foreign investments in Germany, but German firms had invested considerably more in China.
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With larger market shares, these big firms have more power to raise prices, and they've also become more effective at locking new firms out of the market.
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Chastel told me that nine of the top ten management consulting firms have also used NewtonX services, and many top research firms have also used the product.
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The firms have splurged some $92bn of cash in the past five years (as well as additional billions in stock) buying up smaller rival firms (see chart).
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Powerhouse firms including Bridgewater Associates, Och-Ziff Capital Management, Pine River Capital Management and Renaissance Technologies are signatories as are smaller firms such as IONIC Capital Management.
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But still, I think political firms by nature are nimble, they're current, they're responsive compared to the hugely bureaucratic marketing firms that people are finding quite inefficient.
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"Information on individual firms reveals that, over the past year, firms with high leverage and interest burdens have been increasing their debt loads the most," he said.
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At the time of the merger, advisory firms such as ISS urged shareholders to reject the deal because of a big discrepancy in the two firms' valuations.
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In the United States, five major firms added to their ranks by acquiring law firms in Chicago, including Nixon Peabody, which acquired Ungaretti & Harris, with 102 lawyers.
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The lawmakers said the outsized presence of these firms in the financial services sector made them similarly critical cogs as payment and settlement firms, meriting more scrutiny.
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But without the sensors and electronics made by firms such as L3 Technologies and Harris, two medium-sized firms, the plane would not get off the ground.
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The Caixin survey focuses more on small and medium-sized private firms, in contrast to the official manufacturing gauge, which focuses more on larger state-owned firms.
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P.S. ... California voters rejected a ballot initiative to cap dialysis firms' profits, 62% to 38%, vindicating the record-breaking sums that dialysis firms spent to defeat it.
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This strategy has given investors confidence that credit-card firms and other tech firms would not try to stamp out PayPal, a concern that had hurt sentiment.
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Other software firms that use AI to review documents include Luminance and RAVN, both of which are based in London and count big law firms as customers.
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It's Friday but my friend and I have been off from work all week because our firms (big accounting firms) are closed between Christmas and New Year's.
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It's worth noting that CIRP data — like much that's produced by market research firms — isn't always going to match up exactly with other firms' estimates and forecasts.
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Schumpeter has grouped the biggest 22020 companies by market value into local firms and multinationals (firms which make over 219% of their sales outside their home region).
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Debt is generally taken on by the individual funds run by private-equity firms, or the companies that those funds own, rather than by the firms themselves.
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Investors tend to like Exxon more than other oil firms, handing it ratios that are sometimes more generous than popular technology firms such as Google and Apple.
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Paris has attracted a wide range of financial firms; Dublin and Luxembourg are popular with asset managers; Amsterdam is favoured by trading firms and market-infrastructure providers.
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A new study by Mercedes Delgado of MIT's Sloan School and Karen Mills of Harvard Business School finds that American firms supplying other firms employ 44m people.
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Fifty-eight of the venture firms in our updated list have no female partners, which is a bit of an improvement over 62 firms 493 months ago.
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Public scandals about outside firms getting access to Facebook users' data, including last year's Cambridge Analytica fiasco, have shone a light on the firms' massive data collection.
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It did list 19 tobacco-exporting firms, but declined to explicitly list firms involved in trading silver, antimony and antimony products, referring to lists in other filings.
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In the most recent quarter 64% of firms that boosted buy-backs also boosted investment—indeed they were slightly more likely to do so than other firms.
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What's more, tech firms are also investing on behalf of ordinary companies by building cloud-computing capacity that is increasingly replacing other firms' in-house IT investments.
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Yet among Chinese firms, the mindset is starting to change—as it eventually did among Japanese firms after they robbed America blind in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Two of his top five contributors are corporate legal and lobbying firms, McGuireWoods and Akin Gump, and law firms are the number-one industry donating to him.
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Some of these types of efforts are already under way with smaller agro-tech firms, but I expect more partnerships or endeavors from bigger firms in 2017.
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The government awards the biofuels credits to firms that produce such blends - and requires firms that don't, such as CVR, to buy the credits from their competitors.
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Mossack Fonseca and Appleby are both at the larger end of the scale of big offshore law firms, but there are many other big offshore law firms.
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Hiring accelerated from the first quarter, with 37 percent of firms increasing headcount, up slightly on-year, though most of the hiring was at very small firms.
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Obama and first lady Michelle Obama chose the two firms after meeting with a short list of seven firms drawn from a list of 144 initial proposals.
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"There is a difference between the preparation of many large firms and the current position of many of the smaller, medium-sized firms," he told Sky News.
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The government awards the biofuels credits to firms that produce such blends — and requires firms that don't, such as CVR, to buy the credits from their competitors.
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In addition, lobbying firms are frequently asked to work collaboratively with competing firms who may be able to offer different assets and resources to a specific campaign.
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Further, corporate venture capital firms can create synergies between portfolio companies and their parent companies to help accelerate business, an opportunity unavailable to most venture capital firms.
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Ongoing debate around the roles of such firms has centered around whether the likes of Google and Facebook should be classed as technology companies or media firms.
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Yahoo — Yahoo could be bought by a combination of Microsoft and private equity firms, according to Reuters, if talks between the company and those firms pan out.
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In recent years, the wealth management industry has splintered, and boutique, independent investment firms now compete with the industry's largest firms for the same brokers and clients.
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It would also step up the disposal of bad assets and slash lending to zombie firms while promoting mergers and acquisitions among firms, the central bank said.
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The zeal with which European competition regulators have pursued American tech firms has caused some to wonder whether the firms' nationality had led to them being targeted.
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The list of the top 10 global construction firms today shows how far we've fallen: It includes seven Chinese firms and not one from the United States.
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More than half (51 percent) of firms in Asia and 45 percent of firms in Continental Europe expect their compliance teams to grow in the coming year.
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Excluding financial firms, revenues of state firms for the January to February period fell 5.8 percent from a year earlier to 6.24 trillion yuan, the ministry said.
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All the same, growth in Chinese factories does not appear broad-based as the struggles of smaller firms intensified compared to the relatively better-off larger firms.
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U.S. ad tech firms Verve and Drawbridge have announced they will cease doing business in Europe, while numerous small firms and apps have put operations on hold.
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In particular, firms that manage pension plans for other firms take the money that employees contribute and invest it in a variety of financial instruments, including stock.
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In all 220006 sectors, firms with fewer than 2202 employees make up at least 2628 percent of employer firms, all the way to 28500 percent in construction.
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"In addition to the fraction of firms with losses increasing over time, many of these firms now have losses in multiple years in a row," said Kahle.
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This suggests the local exchange's push to attract more technology firms, both by allowing super-voting stock and more secondary listings by U.S.-traded firms, is working.
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Besides the tax costs, Chinese firms are having to pay increasingly higher salaries to staff, with 45.7 percent of firms calling for labor costs to be cut.
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It also has targeted a Chinese drive to gain control of U.S. intellectual property through acquisitions of U.S. technology firms by state controlled firms and investment funds.
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For example, the Chinese government has banned certain foreign security software, including from American firms, or created procurement lists for security software that only include domestic firms.
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"Larger firms will be providing information to managers that other firms have no chance of getting" because they can't afford the necessary data management systems, he said.
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As a privately held company, it gorged on capital from venture capital firms like Benchmark and GV, mutual fund firms like Fidelity Investments, and companies like SoftBank.
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It also encourages firms to outsource jobs normally done by employees to other firms, or to shift work to contractors who are not entitled to health benefits.
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FOREIGN INTEREST A number of international oil firms have a presence in Libya including France's Total, Eni of Italy, U.S. firms ConocoPhillips and Hess, and Germany's Wintershall.
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In contrast with their solo forays into private equity, this time big foreign firms entering the distressed arena are largely choosing to team up with Indian firms.
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To be sure, financial advisory firms face a great deal of competition, which makes it even more important for firms to focus on growing their client base.
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Economic theory tells us that when a single investor owns large stakes in competing firms, the investor will want firms to keep prices high and wages low.
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The Caixin survey focuses more on small- and medium-sized private firms, in contrast to the official manufacturing gauge, which focuses more on larger state-owned firms.
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The FCA said almost all of the firms it regulates will have to comply in some form, but there will be a lighter version for small firms.
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Protection of Chinese firms Foreign companies in China also often complain that state-owned Chinese firms benefit from unfair advantages, such as government subsidies and preferential treatment.
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Lower profits are not only negative for these firms but also for equity investors, given that it could affect investment and dividend payments from these major firms.
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Economists focus on workers as well as the businesses they work for, on buyers as well as sellers, and on new firms as much as existing firms.
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Those tensions are, however, pushing private equity firms to consider investing in alternative Chinese tech suppliers after American and Japanese firms cut ties with blacklisted Chinese clients.
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We use the loosest definition of participation: a deal where one of these firms led the seed deal, one of these firms co-led the seed deal, one of these firms wrote a 50k check while a different firm wrote a 500k check, or one or more of these firms participated in a "party round" would all be counted as having the participation of a Top 10 investor.
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In part two of a survey that asks top VCs about exciting opportunities in open source and dev tools, we dig into responses from 10 leading open-source-focused investors at firms that span early to growth stage across software-specific firms, corporate venture arms and prominent generalist firms.
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Sources including academic advisers, recruiters, and insiders at PE firms told Business Insider that the activity was widespread, including at firms such as Thoma Bravo and TA Associates that were early movers last year but also at some of the largest firms including Warburg Pincus, TPG, and KKR.
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PE firms are consulting with attorneys at law firms including Goodwin Procter and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft about public-company investing possibilities, though the PE firms would like to avoid any reputational harm that could come from getting into the area, known as "activism," attorneys have told Business Insider.
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The analysis showed that EM firms' profit growth lagged those of developed market firms for most part of the decade China, Mexico and Thai firms had the highest median profit growth of 10% or more for the past 10 years, while Hungary, Egypt and Turkey had negative median growth.
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The analysis showed that EM firms' profit growth lagged those of developed market firms for most part of the decade China, Mexico and Thai firms had the highest median profit growth of 10% or more for the past 10 years, while Hungary, Egypt and Turkey had negative median growth.
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Similar, incremental upticks were seen in the rates of job-based coverage among the two major subgroups of workers: people at small firms, and people at large firms.
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Building and maintaining products in the cloud for multinational firms (and for the American government) might similarly require tech firms to operate cheek-by-jowl with business partners.
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Top U.S. oil firms such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron a decade ago turned much of their focus to foreign fields, leaving smaller firms to develop U.S. shale.
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Multiple cybersecurity firms have linked APT10 to hacks against victims in the US, UK, India, and elsewhere, including a mining company, multiple IT service providers, and manufacturing firms.
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A new working paper finds benefits to innovation at firms which get picked on by hedge fund activists, benefits which may extend to other firms not directly involved.
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CrunchBase also determined that female-led venture capital firms or firms that had an exceptionally high number of female investors were more likely to invest in female founders.
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With the exception of airlines, Chinese state enterprises and Silicon Valley unicorns—private firms valued at more than $1bn—shale firms are on an unparalleled money-losing streak.
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It looked at the sheer volume of data held by social media, search engines and ecommerce firms, putting them at an immediate advantage over fintech firms and banks.
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His analysis of big firms across sectors shows that earnings per share at domestically focused firms have risen this year while those at internationally focused ones have plunged.
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The Fed diagnoses this liquidity problem as a result of two shifts in institutional dynamics: Fewer principal trading firms providing liquidity and increased concentration among firms that do.
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Ross also was critical of moves by Chinese firms to buy control of U.S. entertainment and distributors when Beijing was denying such opportunities to U.S. firms in China.
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Carried interest is the percentage of a fund's profit — usually a 20 percent share but sometimes up to 30 percent for top firms — that's paid to firms' partners.
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Some technology-focused private equity firms, such as Thoma Bravo LLC and Vista Equity Partners Management LLC, devote much of their funds to investments in business software firms.
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The firms involved today hope to overcome the obstacles confronting the previous generation of LEO satellite firms because building and launching hundreds of satellites is now much cheaper.
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Technologists are already asking whether firms should move offices and personnel out of Australia to avoid awkward demands and to avoid dealings with firms that do not relocate.
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Workers could easily leave firms that offered them too little; firms had to accept prevailing market wages and would only hire as many workers as made financial sense.
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As worrisome for U.S. firms, Trump also tweeted a plan to apply a 35 percent tax to products imported by U.S. firms from factories they have moved overseas.
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It is willing to relax rules that prevent American firms from controlling their operations in China and to crack down on Chinese firms' rampant theft of intellectual property.
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Tellingly, perhaps, the most prominent signs of vigour among small firms come via the tech giants: Amazon has over 20183m small firms using its third-party sales platforms.
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Thai firms won't have it all their own way, however, as the likes of South Korea's Lotte, Japan's Aeon, China's Parkson and local firms Vingroup and KIDO expand.
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Although Chinese firms such as Baidu and Alibaba are also investing in AI, and deploying it in their home market, the most visible prospectors are Western tech firms.
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It has more bargaining power with logistics firms like FedEx and UPS and has recently expanded its network of delivery partners, using both regional firms and crowdsourced couriers.
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Separately, allowing non-financial Chinese firms, including government entities, to enter into partnerships with foreign banks would help Western firms to better control the business, industry insiders said.
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Chinese firms, willing to buy American agricultural products, have asked for prices from U.S. firms and will sign commercial contracts, ministry spokesman Gao Feng told a news conference.
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The collapse of two big firms, Carillion and Steinhoff, is provoking shareholders at some other firms with the same auditors, KPMG and Deloitte, to demand that they switch.
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Which highlights another, even bigger, distinction between many other firms and Felicis, according to Senkut: the firm is more global in scope than most venture firms its size.
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"Most of your Silicon Valley capital venture firms are unable or unwilling to invest in marijuana-related firms because it is still illegal under federal law," Dietrich explained.
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In carmaking, its attempts to make foreign firms share their technology through compulsory joint ventures with domestic makers have only entrenched local firms' dependence on their foreign partners.
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Rather, it applies to all firms seeking to raise capital through the largest stock exchanges in the world, including many of the energy companies competing against U.S. firms.
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But a majority of the visas are awarded to outsourcing firms, sparking criticism by skeptics that those firms use the visas to fill lower-level information technology jobs.
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"Private firms' overseas investment operations should adhere to fair competition...(and firms) must not bribe local public officials, or personnel from international organisations or related enterprises," they added.
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The Chinese government has been encouraging local firms to invest overseas under its "One Belt, One Road" program and Chinese firms are increasingly investing in overseas infrastructure projects.
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Among internationally exposed firms, GlaxoSmithKline rose 1.1 percent, tracking gains in its sector and following an upbeat note from Jefferies on prospects for large-cap European pharma firms.
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I feel so motivated and driven by how cool would that be, not just for us but for a lot of other firms where modern firms are winning.
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A 2003 looking at more than 12,000 acquisitions by public firms over more than 20 years found that among large firms shareholders lost $218 billion in the aftermath.
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Why it's happening: The Chinese Communist Party needs help from private sector firms, and those firms in turn need to stay in political good graces to be successful.
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As have other mutual fund firms, Legg Mason has been hit hard by investors' shifting tastes for less expensive index funds offered by larger firms, including Vanguard Group.
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The CBIRC would support banks to issue special bonds for lending to small firms and apply favorable risk weighting to evaluate bank loans to smaller firms, it said.
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Earlier this year, the central bank said banks will withdraw support for financially unviable firms, repeating pledges by other officials to drive "zombie" firms out of the market.
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The fund participated in 31 initial public offerings in the third quarter, including in technology firms Nets and LINE, financial services firms China Merchants Securities and First Hawaiian.
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The public is unaware which firms the FSOC has examined under its stage-two procedures and the reasons why the FSOC concluded that these firms were not SIFIs.
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In the past six months the earnings of listed firms have dipped a little, as cheap oil has hit energy firms and a strong dollar has hurt multinationals.
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How far outside firms will go varies: in financial services almost all outsiders (92%) came from other financial firms; in utilities 72% of outsiders came from other industries.
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Blessed by Congress in 2006, it has seen a dramatic rise among high-income groups like law firms, medical/dental practices and technology firms in the last decade.
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Many big firms say there is a dearth of qualified women to hire, but many critics say the firms are not doing enough to attract and retain women.
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That means missile divisions at Western firms are facing more competition from Chinese, Israeli and Russian firms in some export markets, where the latter are upping their game.
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The bar for financing by listed firms is set lower than for private firms, so the volume is larger which has led to illegal practices, the agency said.
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I then met with the CEOs of half a dozen firms leading the Gaza tech sector; these firms are doing early stage outsourcing in the region and beyond.
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Medium-sized firms, with 2160 to 2000 employees, were the top jobs producers with 22018,000 new hires, while large firms added 67,000 and small businesses rose by 47,000.
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Incumbents have vast resources: among S&P 500 firms, their total cashflow is four times that of tech firms' and 18 times what venture capitalists invest each year.
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One study of Fortune 500 companies found that firms with higher gender diversity in management had 35 percent better return on equity than firms with poor gender equity.
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A plurality of respondents, 2900 percent, said they had no impact on their firms while another 220006 percent said that the tariffs have been "neutral" for their firms.
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These suspicions have drawn international scrutiny toward big Chinese telecommunications firms and have raised questions about Chinese firms' conduct and the depth of their ties to the state.
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"Our supervisory reviews of market abuse systems and controls at sponsor firms have, so far, resulted in improvements being required at 17.83% of firms reviewed," the FCA said.
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We were two or three times the size and had major significant advisors, whether it was auditing firms or law firms, and a track record of enormous growth.
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There are 14 firms registered with the Justice Department to work for the country, most of which are sub-contractors to two firms: Greenberg Traurig and Amsterdam & Partners.
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Earlier, the three largest proxy advisory firms also gave their support to him, an important victory because many institutional investors vote their shares based on the firms' recommendations.
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Private equity firms are also pushing their portfolios of smaller firms to diversify their boards, even if they don't have any imminent plans for an initial public offering.
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"You might say that large firms are in a position to manage this risk, by influencing the political process, where small firms aren't," Hassan said in an interview.
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They said the prosecutors were seeking information about the business relationships between the cash-advance firms and the trial lawyers who sometimes refer their clients to the firms.
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The Delaware DMV has data sharing agreements with at least a dozen investigation firms, and Wisconsin has around two dozen current agreements with such firms, other documents show.
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"A strong, fully employed economy — where firms looking for workers is a larger issue than workers looking for firms — is the best social program we know," he said.
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And the Trump administration's ban prohibiting American firms from selling technology to the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei raised the risk that Beijing would retaliate against American tech firms.
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Along the way, Skadden Arps and other prominent law firms started fellowship programs that pay graduating law students to work for public interest law firms and advocacy organizations.
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The researchers' central insight is that firms with relatively low profits disproportionately employed minimum-wage workers, meaning those firms ultimately bore the greatest burden of mandated higher wages.
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Salomao thinks PE firms will start to hire data scientists alongside analysts, as the people make-up within PE firms shifts to industry specialists, supported by tech practitioners.
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" As a result, "we'll do more work with firms on a retainer basis," he said, an approach that will "embed our firms much more deeply in our work.
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Data shows that since 2007, the number of women-owned firms has grown at five times the national average, with 1,072 new women-owned firms starting every day.
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Reuters reported last month that private equity firms Cinven and Advent had teamed up to submit a joint offer, while several other firms were also expected to bid.
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Like many other mutual fund firms, Legg Mason has been hit hard by investors' shifting tastes for less expensive index funds offered by larger firms, including Vanguard Group.
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The rankings are drawn from a survey of 18,000 associates who rate firms other than their own according to how prestigious the firms are in the legal industry.
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But the rising Republican firms of the Trump era are also an outlier on K Street, where lobbying trends have seen a move away from exclusively partisan firms.
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Some 52 percent of leisure and hospitality firms and 47 percent of retail firms in affected areas reported natural disaster-related losses, the highest shares of all industries.
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The association, whose remaining 21 members include ride-hailing firms Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc , also consists of non-profit organisations, venture capital groups and blockchain firms.
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Just 16% of executives at Europe's top firms were women, the data showed, with just 30 of the firms in the study close to achieving gender-balanced leadership.
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These deals provide private equity firms an opportunity to profit before they even sell a company, an added bonus to the firms and their investors, including public pensioners.
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The 2010 Dodd Frank law creates a special liqudiation regime for financial firms because the traditional bankruptcy process is not considered sophisticated enough for large complex financial firms.
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This is absolutely vital since employees at the nation's largest firms are much more likely to have access to a 401(k) plan than employees at small firms.
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Over half of firms (51 percent) in Australasia have a named senior manager responsible for culture, closely followed by firms in Africa (50 percent) and Asia (48 percent).
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Those researchers found that management training at Indian textile firms boosted productivity by 17% in the first year, compared to similar firms that didn&apost receive the training.
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The study found that real estate firms would see a 25-point reduction in their effective rates next year, and financial firms would see a 12-point reduction.
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Just 33% of workers at lower-wage firms offering health benefits are covered by their employer's health benefits, well below the 63% share at other firms offering coverage.
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Currently, Riyadh is in talks with firms from more than 120 countries about buying nuclear technology to build its first two reactors — and American firms are top candidates.
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Almost 13,500 banks, insurers, asset managers and other financial firms use EU passporting rules that allow easy access between Britain and the rest of the bloc, underscoring the importance of the issue in Britain's exit negotiations with the EU. More firms in Europe were using passporting than UK-based firms.
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To get a closer look at venture firms investing in female founders, we compiled a list of firms with investments in at least 50 companies made between 2012 and Q3 2017 to determine which firms over-indexed against the top 100's 13 percent in venture rounds made to female founders.
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Instead, Seymour is investing in what he sees as pure-play cannabis companies that fall into three distinct buckets: firms that deal with the product itself; firms tied to the cannabis industry via the infrastructure, such as REITs and financial-service players; and firms that make technology for consumption and agriculture.
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Business Insider contacted 34 of the top venture-capital firms in the tech industry to ask whether or not Epstein had ever been a limited partner or investor in any of the firms, or whether he had worked with the firms in a personal or professional capacity at any point.
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And to the degree there is increased dispersion of successful and unsuccessful firms, this can play a role in increased inequality as the more successful firms are able to share more of that success with their workers while equivalent workers trapped in less successful firms would end up being paid less.
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In the letter it sent to firms last week, Finra said it was reviewing how firms establish, communicate and fulfill cultural values and whether those values guide employee conduct.
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Pharmacists say large pharmacy benefit management (PBM) firms that handle benefit clams for millions of Americans are pocketing the difference, while those firms say pharmacists themselves are being greedy.
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The researchers found that rehiring wasn't common across the board; a subset of shadier firms tended to hire lots of fired advisers, while other firms hired few if any.
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"In a market without this free information, large firms might well be able to invest in market intelligence that small firms and farms would not have available," it added.
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Throughout the settled case the CFTC referred to Liew's employer generically as a large financial institution "financial institution 22.5" and mentioned other firms and traders at such firms generically.
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Climate lawsuits should borrow from legal models that held tobacco firms liable for health damage from smoking, he said, predicting a rise in class actions targeting major oil firms.
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The most heavily weighted firms in this index include Japan Tobacco, carmaker Honda Motor Co Ltd and telecoms firms Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp, KDDI Corp and Softbank Group.
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In America, for example, the rate of entry of new firms has been falling since the late 1970s, as has the share of employment accounted for by young firms.
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As firms find it harder to hire new workers, firms might offer existing workers more hours, or convert part-time or temporary posts to full-time or permanent positions.
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The U.S. Treasury Department was drafting curbs that would block firms with at least 25 percent Chinese ownership from buying U.S. technology firms, a government official said on Sunday.
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If earnings do soar as forecast, the big-five tech firms could be plotting giant acquisitions of media, car or hardware firms, to diversify away from their core business.
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Some law firms, like Paul Hastings, have made a lucrative business serving as a designated lender counsel, aggressively marketing their services to the real client: the private equity firms.
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Government data show that whereas firms with 2008-49 employees have an average turnover per person of £134,000, that figure increases to £170,000 for firms with over 250 employees.
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While these three firms don't have the exact same geographic and investment focus, these three VC firms all recently raised new funds, proving that they're bullish on Southeast Asia.
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Cutting corporation tax and introducing loopholes may induce big firms to switch their tax domiciles, but it does little to encourage firms to create jobs or production in Britain.
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Investments by U.S. venture capital firms into Latin America are skyrocketing, and one of the firms leading the charge into deals is none other than Silicon Valley's Andreessen Horowitz.
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Investments by U.S. venture capital firms into Latin America are skyrocketing and one of the firms leading the charge into deals is none other than Silicon Valley's Andreessen Horowitz.
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In the last three years, according to Crunchbase data, 21 percent of newly launched venture and micro-venture firms,16 firms in all, had at least one female founder.
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Economists studying European companies found that competition from Chinese imports both caused firms to improve their technology and led to a shift in jobs to the most advanced firms.
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You would normally expect small firms to take some of the fight to big firms, especially when they are as confident as they tell market researchers that they are.
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In the last three years, according to CrunchBase data, 16 percent of newly launched venture and micro-venture firms, 20 firms in all, had at least one female founder.
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In 220 FINRA also sent "report cards" for layering and spoofing activities to firms as a compliance tool to complement firms' supervisory systems to detect and deter manipulative conduct.
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The two companies have also invested in major ride-hailing firms: Toyota is invested in Uber and Grab while SoftBank backs both firms as well as China's Didi Chuxing.
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Hillary Clinton defended her paid speeches to Wall Street firms, rejecting the idea that the millions of dollars she earned in fees would sway her views on financial firms.
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Business Insider has mapped out each of the two firms' 600-plus branches, utilizing their official lists of branch locations, to illustrate regions where the two firms' branches overlap.
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Whereas Western products such as Apple Pay typically piggyback off credit-card firms' networks to access clients' funds, China's firms often access bank accounts directly, cutting out the middlemen.
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Everyone hates pharmaceutical firms, but their share of health-care rent-seeking is relatively trivial, especially once you include the many midsized and small firms that are investing heavily.
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China Three Gorges, a Chinese state-owned utility, has sounded out European firms including Italy's Enel, Spain's Iberdrola, France's Engie and German firms E.ON and RWE, the sources said.
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The number of employees hired at minority firms in that time has increased by 28503 percent, while it has dropped by 22019 percent at other firms across the nation.
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Its gauge of firms' cashflow turned negative for the first time since 2012 and investment intentions for both manufacturers and services firms were the weakest in over eight years.
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Finra has considered other solutions, such as requiring firms to have insurance that would cover losses in arbitration disputes, but decided it would be too expensive for many firms.
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However, while Chinese firms will be able to raise fresh funds by issuing GDRs, London-listed firms initially will only be able to sell CDRs based on existing shares.
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CNBC found that six of the 10 firms that delisted from the exchange this year are Chinese firms, compared to eight who did so the whole of last year.
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The law has sparked fierce push-back by firms and lobby groups who say vague wording of the regulations leaves foreign firms vulnerable to abstract interpretations of the rules.
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Grid providers are offering long-term contracts to private firms to produce large amounts of solar energy, which in turn helps those firms secure cheap finance and cut prices.
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Alternative-data firms also offer insights into private companies, such as technology "unicorns" (firms that have yet to come to the stockmarket but are valued at $1 billion-plus).
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Low fees may lure investors but give private-equity firms insufficient incentives to manage the investments diligently; high fees could allow firms to siphon off most of investors' returns.
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Among the 21 firms that do boast a woman partner, it's often singular — not plural: Three-quarters of these firms only have one woman in a senior leadership position.
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New firms incorporated in Hong Kong also slid 17 percent, leaving the net number of new firms at a low since 2003's SARS outbreak slammed the city's economy.
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Europe and America have economies of a similar size, but the aggregate market value of the top 22006 European firms is half that of the top 226 American firms.
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China's banking regulator has asked banks to significantly lower funding costs for smaller firms and raise their tolerance for non-performaning ratios for loans to small and micro firms.
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"The relationship between the firms the NRA employed and the firms the Trump Campaign and other Republican candidates used suggests illegal coordination," they wrote in the letter dated Wednesday.
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Le Maire said that it was hard to explain to smaller firms why they were paying much more tax in France, on a relative basis, compared to larger firms.
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During the trip, lawmakers expressed frustration with tech firms over what they saw as a lack of firm plans to increase the number of underrepresented minorities at their firms.
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"This poor performance reflects energy firms struggling with lower oil prices and manufacturing firms hit by the strong dollar," said Jesse Edgerton, an economist at JPMorgan in New York.
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They have argued that Chinese firms have been largely allowed to invest freely in their markets while Beijing limits foreign firms' ability to enter the world's second-largest economy.
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Energy firms have faced shareholder demands to do more to curb carbon emissions, while some pension funds are demanding more commitment to climate goals from firms they invest in.
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While financial firms have been using artificial intelligence software for everything from compliance to stock-picking, a growing number of firms have started to use it for market oversight.
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FINRA's proposed process for identifying "restricted firms" includes determining a brokerage's percentage of brokers with previous violations and when they occurred, and if brokers recently worked at expelled firms.
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Specific numbers: We found 91 of 1,015 decision-makers at 232 U.S.-based VC firms were were women, compared to 72 out of 1,019 last year at 227 firms.
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" I asked if this included any of the notorious Chelsea Headhunter firms, and Nash-Jones replied: "Hooligan firms are absolutely not invited, and we certainly are not inviting Headhunters.
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Deripaska restructured his ownership in the firms to win over the Trump administration, which argues the oligarch's influence in his firms will be sufficiently limited in the new arrangement.
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The EU should update a 1996 ban on European firms complying with U.S. sanctions based on such extraterritorial legislation, giving European firms a legal "excuse" to reject U.S. demands.
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Rinke and his cofounders knew Celonis's tools would best fit large firms – and yet, as is the law of the business jungle, large firms are the hardest to impress.
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GRAPHIC: Airlines, developers and machinery firms underperform amid trade tensions - here Consumer firms were among China's better performing sectors as Beijing rolled out measures to stimulate China's domestic consumption.
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Thanks to #MovingForward, over 135 firms in 20 countries have shared theirs; the hope is that all firms will formulate ones they are comfortable enough with to share publicly.
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But a majority of the visas are awarded to outsourcing firms, sparking criticism by skeptics that say those firms use the visas to fill lower-level information technology jobs.
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China's banking regulator has asked banks to significantly lower funding costs for smaller firms and raise their tolerance for non-performing ratios for loans to small and micro firms.
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They draw on international data to determine a ratio of pretax profits to wages at individual companies, for both locally owned firms and foreign firms operating in those countries.
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In turn, investors in the big Wall Street firms, and anyone doing business with them, would become more aware of the losses they could suffer if those firms crashed.
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After asking for various forms of identification and calling my editor to confirm my identity, he explained the firms' hiring process, for he had worked at the firms, too.
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The U.S. Treasury Department was drafting curbs that would block firms with at least 225 percent Chinese ownership from buying U.S. technology firms, a government official said on Sunday.
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Brindici declined to give details on which firms would be invited to the private tender, but Metz said between six and seven firms, including the Juarez cooperative, are interested.
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However, new European rules that open up the data of big banks to third party firms could point to increased competitiveness for fintech start-ups and big tech firms.
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While more than 6900 percent of large firms with more than 2628 employees provide insurance for employees, only 28503 percent of firms with less than 22019 employees do so.
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The Chinese government, which once had encouraged its investment firms to do deals overseas, wanted firms to pull back, focusing on a domestic economy that had started to weaken.
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All foreign firms building autos in China must partner with Chinese firms and China limits the foreign ownership of the resulting joint ventures to no more than 50 percent.
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Established lenders are also facing immense challenges from fintech (financial technology) firms such as Zopa, Revolut and Monzo that are quickly joining the ranks of Europe's big tech firms.
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A trade deal will protect foreign firms' interests in China while Chinese firms' legal interests in dealing in the United States will be protected as well, Wang Shouwen said.
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Alternatively, venture capital firms, law firms and academics could work together to measure the diversity of cap tables across large swaths of the industry and publish aggregated, anonymous data.
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Moves by portfolio managers between fund firms are closely watched on Wall Street especially now that many firms posted lackluster 2016 returns which could signal an uptick in moves.
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These firms are currently allowed to operate freely across EU nations, which allows U.S. firms based in the U.K. to sell financial products to EU-based companies, for example.
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Griffiths, who did not identify the 10 firms or the other companies targeted, said all the firms had been asked to respond within a month of receiving the letter.
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Lawyers working for Mueller have issued subpoenas to numerous Washington lobbying firms for information on their relationships with consulting firms led by Flynn and Manafort, the Washington Post reported.
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We need to shame those people and we need to say, 'We won't do business with you, we won't work in your firms, we won't invest in your firms.
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On Wednesday, the Fed said it would eliminate the qualitative objection for most firms "due to the improvements in capital planning made by the largest firms" since the crisis.
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The elite 20163% of firms that are long-termist performed better, McKinsey reckons, seeing their profits increase by, on average, 22016% more than short-term firms between 230 and 21997.
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Critics of proxy advisory firms say that investors have wrongly believed they must cast a vote for every share they own, leading investors to rely too much on the firms.
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The exercise suggests that 24% of the market value of the S&P 500 is in firms that get a red light and 14% in firms that get an orange.
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She found that, when controlling for the type of contract, the total personnel costs proposed by non-profit firms were on average just two-fifths those proposed by private firms.
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There is concern that with no one checking the accountancy work of the local Chinese firms, auditing of both Chinese and foreign firms may not be up to international standards.
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Of the firms studied, 27 percent had female directors, as compared to the S&P 500 index of largest firms, of which 20 percent of all directors are now women.
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The decision was seen by investors as a somewhat softer approach than plans reported earlier to block firms with at least 25 percent Chinese ownership from buying U.S. tech firms.
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Financial firms have long accepted business leads from "introducers" or unregulated firms, or people such as retired financial advisers who are no longer authorised themselves to give advice on products.
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When founders think about the venture firms most likely to invest in space or robotics or other bleeding-edge technologies, a handful of firms tend to jump immediately to mind.
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That prompted interest from a number of private equity firms, said the people, including a consortium led by private equity firms Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman, two of the people said.
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The data also showed that firms concerned about Brexit were less likely to invest, and that those relying heavily on foreign workers had increased staff numbers by less other firms.
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But for most technology firms, an IPO is a way for founders to cash in their chips or to create shares to use as a currency for acquiring other firms.
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Some foreign firms will invest more deeply in American-based production in order to avoid tariffs, if Mr Trump imposes them, much as Japanese car firms did in the 1980s.
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In written comments, no Japanese company singled out Huawei or any other foreign firms by name, but they expressed concerns about security issues when using the equipment of foreign firms.
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China's state-owned tabloid Global Times criticised the firms for not issuing official responses, "as major firms have an obligation to let the public know their stances on the matter".
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About 70% of the capital raised on it is for Chinese firms, but strikingly the mix has shifted from state enterprises to tech firms such as Tencent, Meituan and Xiaomi.
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China's state-owned tabloid Global Times criticized the firms for not issuing official responses, "as major firms have an obligation to let the public know their stances on the matter".
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A wave of foreign takeovers followed: since 22016, over 230 firms that would today qualify for the FTSE-100 index of big firms have been snapped up by foreign rivals.
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Fewer than 22.2% of asset management firms are owned by women or racial minorities, despite performing on par with firms owned by white men, according to a study released Monday.
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They also changed the threshold for looking at takeovers in order to capture expensive purchases of small firms with few revenues, which typically happen when big firms buy putative competitors.
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The firms which sell them lack the marketing dollars that big pharma firms shower on new drugs, says Alan Carr, an analyst at Needham, an asset manager in New York.
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The decision shows how Washington's effort to bar sales of technology to Chinese firms, including Huawei Technologies , is ensnaring non-American firms that are not obliged to follow U.S. law.
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The benefits of breaking up powerful firms and increasing competition might be even bigger than thought, if conservative old firms are thereby spurred to make better use of newer technologies.
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Up to half of listed firms' shares are in the hands of friendly shareholders—mostly other companies with cross shareholdings and banks and insurance firms who tend to support managers.
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If you put Asian firms into two buckets—Japanese and other Asian firms—each made more money selling things to the other parts of Asia than to America in 2018.
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Japanese firms are not required to have a compensation committee and only 26 percent of listed firms do, although the practice is more common among bigger companies, CLSA's Smith said.
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Shutdowns among small firms that serve as subcontractors for big firms and employ seven out of 10 workers could pose the risk of a prolonged low growth, some analysts say.
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In recent years, the gaps between the most successful firms and the weakest among them ("frontier firms" and "laggards", in the jargon) have widened in everything from wages to profits.
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Though some firms have used the bounty from tax reform to undertake big share buy-backs, it seems that large firms are increasing investments in plant and equipment in America.
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Among those who traveled were executives from some of the firms hit hardest by the backlash, including Lotte Group and cosmetics and entertainment firms such as Amorepacific and S.M. Entertainment.
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Many firms have employed an automated system to help calculate fees but some small-to-midsize firms still have a manual aspect to the calculation, creating a risk of error.
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To guide lending to small firms, authorities have issued directives to banks, arranged meetings between executives of banks and private firms, and doled out tax breaks for banks' "micro-loans".
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The SEC examination discovered that 57 percent of the investment management firms examined failed to conduct penetration tests and vulnerability scans on systems that the firms considered to be critical.
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The criteria under which the two firms were selected is not known, although Maung Aung said provincial Chinese governments where the two firms are based had given guarantees of quality.
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Moreover, the lack of disclosure and absence of a clear definition of 'zombie' firms makes it difficult to assess whether regulations are effective in excluding unviable firms from DES deals.
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Newly formed company airYotta Pte Ltd and fibre broadband services provider MyRepublic are the two local firms who have submitted their interest, the firms said in separate statements on Thursday.
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Harassment allegations have already ejected two prominent venture capitalists from rival firms in recent weeks, and firms today describe an industry on edge and waiting for more shoes to drop.
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The decision was seen by investors as a somewhat softer approach than reported earlier plans to block firms with at least 25 percent Chinese ownership from buying U.S. tech firms.
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Food and beverage, life sciences and financial services firms were most likely to consider relocating whilst aerospace firms were the least likely, the survey by law firm Gowling WLG said.
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The probe has already frozen current business for the trading firms in Brazil, an increasingly important global oil producer, but not yet a major source of revenue for the firms.
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Suppliers included a unit of India's Reliance Industries, PDVSA's U.S. refining arm Citgo Petroleum, Russian oil firms Lukoil and Rosneft, units of China National Petroleum Corp, and several trading firms.
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Traders said investors are also worried about its Vision Fund's exposure to U.S. tech firms and Asian tech firms listed in the U.S. market whose shares have been battered recently.
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Progress in corporate social responsibility depends on mutual trust, where firms believe in the moral commitments of other firms to behave responsibly, and not to seek quick, short-term advantage.
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Many find that there are private firms willing to refinance their loans at rock-bottom interest rates (again, whether they are happy or not at these firms is another question).
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Interest rate hikes could slow down the pace of job creation by firms due to the higher costs of financing investments and activities that firms would face as a result.
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Those global firms bring some services to the table that no Indian company rivals, but they're even gaining traction in categories in which domestic firms had a first-mover advantage.
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Foreign firms have long complained of an uneven playing field in China created by barriers to access, state subsidies for domestic firms, weak intellectual property protections and forced technology transfers.
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Almost a quarter (24 percent) of firms in Asia, and almost a fifth (2 percent) of firms in the UK, expect personal liability to increase significantly in the year ahead.
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One study found that in 2015, there were 89,160 firms that were exporters to Canada and 59,438 firms exporting to Mexico, the majority of which had fewer than 50 employees.
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"Just like large tech firms encroaching on financial institution markets, many financial firms, including ours, declare ourselves to be a technology company," he told CNBC's Geoff Cutmore and Arjun Kharpal.
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The firms are now registering with the Justice Department for work they did that could have benefitted Ukraine and a pro-Russia political party, the firms said in separate statements.
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Some firms are worried about potentially losing future business with the nation's largest cities and states, according to Raymond, whose organization represents more than 5,000 engineering firms throughout the country.
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Using our payroll tax example, not only do firms pay more and employees receive less to finance the subsidies, there's also less employment and ultimately less output sold by firms.
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The U.S. has long warned telecom firms not to use the Chinese firms' products, which the FCC moved to formally ban the use of federal funds to purchase in April.
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But both those investments came after the government wrote letters to ease the firms' concerns, drawing criticism that May was making secret deals and giving firms privileged information on Brexit.
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Although most firms responded before the transition deal was announced, a question was included in the survey about how the firms would cope in the event of such an agreement.
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In signs of continued interest in major firms with solid growth, an index tracking top firms listed in Shanghai has gained 3.2 percent this week, its best since last July.
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Ultimately, a massive number of energy decisions are made by financial services firms and fintech firms may often know the customers and products of downstream cleantech startups more than most.
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The National Venture Capital Association, a trade group that represents most venture capital firms and many private equity firms, on Monday took aim at President Trump's executive order on immigration.
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For example, the services PMI covers a broad cross-section of the private sector economy: hotels and restaurants, transport and storage, communications, financial firms, property companies and other services firms.
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Investment firms in recent years have turned to so-called alternative data firms, which turn obscure data sets into tradable information, to try and get an edge on the competition.
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Broker-dealer firms reported to authorities nearly 2,300 cases of suspected senior fraud or exploitation in 2015, according to a new North American Securities Administrators Association analysis of 61 firms.
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"We are beginning to see city analysts, venture capital firms and credit ratings agencies factor cyber security readiness into the way they assess firms," Rogoyski said in a statement today.
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Fixed asset investment made by centrally-owned coal firms fell 33.5 percent on year in the first three quarters, while steel firms' investment dropped 19.3 percent over the same periods.
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Only 54 percent of CEOs at China-based firms surveyed say they're confident in the global economic growth outlook, versus 69 percent of top executives at firms around the world.
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What's more, 37 percent of covered workers at small firms are in a plan with a deductible of at least $2,000, compared to 15 percent for workers at large firms.
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The quarterly survey of thousands of Chinese firms by China Beige Book International (CBB) showed "old economy" firms in the commodities sector sustained an increase in net capacity and production.
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Then, attorneys at the most prestigious firms in the City of London, the financial district, were worried that as their biggest clients filed for bankruptcy, their firms would soon follow.
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The plan includes a 20 percent excise payment on payments from domestic firms to foreign affiliates that could affect private equity firms and hedge funds that have overseas reinsurance operations.
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Many also cited concerns about their ability to compete in China, given advantages that Beijing offers to its domestic firms, and other licensing, investment and administrative barriers facing foreign firms.
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A sub-index for smaller firms fell, while performance at larger companies improved, a sign that the government's dependence on big state firms for growth this year has not changed.
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Japanese firms are also unenthusiastic: Only 4 percent of large and mid-sized firms plan to use bitcoin in the near to medium term, showed a Reuters poll last month.
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When large companies like Qualcomm abuse their dominant market positions, they jeopardize the growth of small firms — firms that can possess next generation groundbreaking technology — and the entire American economy.
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While the volume of activity at business and professional services firms improved to its highest since May 2016 during the three months to August, it cooled in consumer services firms.
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It's more likely to be offered at firms that have more high-wage or high-skill workers than those in firms that have a larger proportion of low-wage workers.
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Political intelligence firms provide services for companies that have a strong interest in knowing the direction of Medicare spending, not just for trading firms that might profit from the information.
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Meanwhile, concerns about how British firms will fare as the country negotiates its way out of the European Union have dampened earnings expectations at the more domestically-exposed UK firms.
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These winnings do not come without risk to the private equity firms, which are often taking a gamble on troubled companies, and when they fail, the firms probably lose out.
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The reform has delivered brisk business to oil service and seismic firms, which have made sales of $800 million in data packages to the firms considering bidding in the auctions.
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Still, as in previous cycles, these firms showed projected net income over the nine quarters of the stress horizon, in contrast to net losses for firms with other business models.
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Thompson said ad-supported streaming services and measurement firms would be hot acquisition targets in 2020 and that adtech firms trying to make the pivot to OTT are likely acquirers.
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In early November Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, the vice-minister of work and social security, announced that private firms would be able to provide goods and services to foreign firms.
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FARA requires firms to update the Justice Department every six months with details about who lobbyists or public relations firms speak with on clients' behalf and how much they're paid.
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Private equity firms and smaller companies seeking to team up with buyout firms to make offers will participate in a sale process for the specialty chemicals unit, the sources said.
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Firms are either taking the splitting up of shares on themselves, or working with firms like DriveWealth and Apex Clearing, while big market makers steer clear for the time being.
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The decision shows how Washington's effort to bar sales of technology to Chinese firms, including Huawei Technologies, is ensnaring non-American firms that are not obliged to follow U.S. law.
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That's because globally traded firms have higher productivity and thus pay higher wages than other firms — 85033 percent more in the manufacturing sector, where Carrier pays its production workers $23 an hour, and 75 percent more in the tech sector, where semiconductor firms pay a premium two-and-a-half times the average.
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At least 70 percent of Democratic and Republican respondents said they would support laws to require private equity firms to pay severance, make private firms or CEOs legally liable for the firm's obligations to workers and requires Wall Street private equity executives "to act in the best interests" of investors in their firms.
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The world's second-largest economy is seen as a key growth driver for many technology firms, but the path is often rocky with regulatory issues and stiff competition from local firms.
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The QDII scheme is a mechanism by which Chinese asset managers, including mutual funds, securities firms, banks, insurers and trust firms can create products that invest in offshore stocks and bonds.
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An assessment of 120 insurance firms from the first quarter last year showed that 10 life insurance firms and one property insurance firm were at risk, financial news magazine Caixin reported.
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Detroit firms are trying to prove to investors they are pursuing new business just as aggressively as tech industry firms and start-ups in Silicon Valley and elsewhere in the world.
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The country has high hopes for its start-ups, especially mobile gaming firms, following global successes for Finnish firms such as Supercell's 'Clash of Clans' and Rovio's 'Angry Birds' mobile games.
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Foreign banks, securities firms and insurers seeking to conduct certain kinds of business in China are required to partner with local firms that retain a majority interest in the joint venture.
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But the only way that the mania will end well is if oil prices rise sharply, bailing out the industry, or if E&P firms are bought by bigger energy firms.
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It would be a long-term solution, as would a proposed tax using the corporate rate of the countries where the firms' consumers are, rather than where the firms are based.
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Allegations have flown in recent months over how these firms, like conglomerate Wanda and insurer Anbang, are financed, how much risk their purchases entail and whether the firms are over-leveraged.
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Republicans in Congress are debating changes to the tax code which would see exporters and firms bringing profits home pay less than before, while firms shifting production abroad would face levies.
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"We see the movement of traditional asset managers and brokerage firms to either acquire robo-advisers or partner with firms as another way to access a key distribution platform," Morningstar noted.
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The Japanese group is also one of more than 70 firms, including utilities Duke Energy and Centrica, and oil firms Royal Dutch Shell and Equinor, that are part of the EWF.
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Lawyers from five U.S. law firms counseled parties involved in SoftBank Group's bid to takeover WeWork for $10 billion announced on Tuesday, according to statements from the company and the firms.
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One reason for the cash build up is tax: 80% of the five firms' gross cash is held abroad, allowing them to defer the levy American firms pay when repatriating profits.
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Prosecutors have counted 285 foreign firms that have done business with agents who are under investigation, like Padilha, though they say that does not mean as many firms are being investigated.
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It's seen in the investment community as a better barometer for the U.K. with many firms on the FTSE 100 being multinationals, such as large mining firms that operate in China.
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Many bankrupt firms can sustain their output thanks to so-called debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing for operating and other expenses made available by existing creditors, banks, or private equity firms.
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He also writes on his blog "Silicon Hills Lawyer" publicly and pointedly about his profession — and often takes shots at certain practices common among startup law firms, including Silicon Valley firms.
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In eight of the past ten years, there has been an M&A deficit, with foreigners laying out more on buying British firms than British firms spent on M&A abroad.
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Western firms worry that before China truly opens up, they will be thrown out—as soon as Chinese firms have learned, bought or stolen enough Western knowhow to become self-reliant.
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Western firms such as AerCap Holdings and General Electric's GECAS still dominate the $228 billion global aircraft leasing industry, but Asian firms have broken into the big league in recent years.
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Some small internet firms have bought back all their shares and delisted in America, then relisted in mainland China, but the cost of this for the big firms would be prohibitive.
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But it recommends that Britain's competition watchdog should act earlier and faster when big tech firms try to stifle competition by buying smaller firms that could one day become a threat.
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Huawei, among other Chinese firms, has also been placed on a trading blacklist that will prohibit them from trading with American firms without special licenses from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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The decision marks a somewhat softer approach to curbing Chinese investments than reports on earlier plans to block firms with at least 523 percent Chinese ownership from buying U.S. tech firms.
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In addition, there are many Indians in C-suites and professional firms across the UAE, filling the consultancies, banks, design firms, and public relations shops that keep the commercial wheels moving.
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That outcome reinforces our finding that 7 percent of partners in the top 100 firms are women and suggests that the pattern at the top firms is representative across the industry.
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Of those 22015 firms, 23, or 45 percent, have at least one female investing partner, which is very close to the 44 percent we found for the top 100 venture firms.
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While other firms have review processes for these riskier trades, it's still possible to buy penny stocks at Morgan Stanley and UBS, according to people with knowledge of those firms' policies.
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The partnership includes venture capital firms, nonprofit organizations, crypto firms, and massive corporate financial, telecommunications, and technology service providers, including Coinbase, Mastercard, Visa, eBay, PayPal, Stripe, Spotify, Uber, Lyft, and Vodafone.
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Other big banks and brokerage firms previously sold their seats on the floor of the exchange to high-speed firms like Virtu Financial Capital Markets and Knight Capital Group (now KCG).
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The law firms have to invest substantial capital in suing on behalf of hundreds or even thousands of plaintiffs, and the firms alone shoulder the financial risk of losing in court.
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Fund management firms Janus Capital and Henderson Global Investors have agreed an all-share merger to form a company managing more than $320 billion in assets, the firms said on Monday.
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When American companies have sued Chinese firms for copyright infringement, Chinese hackers have turned around and broken into their law firms' computer systems to steal details about the plaintiffs' legal strategy.
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SS: I hear what Geoff's saying about solicitors at one end of the spectrum, but for international law firms like yours, cross-border law firms, it's a massive bonanza, isn't it?
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Given big firms' results, the extent of wage hikes will be limited at small firms that employ seven out of 10 workers, he added, underlining the challenge to Abenomics' trickle-down.
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Republicans say the "too big to fail" label protects firms with a liquidation process they equate to the 2009 bank bailout, though the liquidation process doesn't give failing firms taxpayer money.
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The deal comes at a time when Indian IT firms are looking to strengthen their product portfolios as these firms transition away servicing deals to a higher-margin digital business model.
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As media firms profit from the popularity of Korean soap operas, films and music in China and South-East Asia, more are partnering with Chinese firms to produce or promote content.
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One of the simplest avenues of productivity is growth is just individual bringing better ideas from top of the class firms to the middling order or the longer tail of firms.
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Crudely put, shadow banking has evolved in recent years through firms devising investment products that get around regulations; the government slowly catching on; and the firms responding by finding new loopholes.
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The better outcomes for the top-grossing 50 firms also signal an increasing split in the legal industry, with elite firms drawing higher revenue and paying higher salaries than many counterparts.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Chinese firms are eyeing partnerships with Turkish construction firms in Africa and are also looking to take stakes in Turkish companies, the head of the Turkish Contractors Association said.
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But if rich places tend to stay rich, because productive firms and people benefit from proximity to other such firms and people, then decentralisation can create lasting hardship for poorer places.
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GoFundMe, Kickstarter and other mainstream crowdfunding firms have policies that prohibit hate speech or abuse, the latest example of technology firms making it harder for far-right groups to organize online.
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The trustee's lawyers told Judge Snyder that the firms' refusal to hire Feess' son could only have exacerbated any bias because the arbitrator would hold the firms' actions against the trustee.
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Uber has drawn capital from a wide variety of investors, including traditional venture capital firms, mutual fund giants like BlackRock and wealthy clients of firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
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There is no doubt that international firms manipulate their tax reporting to minimize payments and that there are deductions and credits that allow numerous firms to pay little in U.S. taxes.
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The two other bidders were Chinese firms Haier and Hefei Meiling, local newspapers Finance, Delo and Dnevnik reported, adding that all three firms conducted due diligence in Gorenje in past weeks.
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"If we find that firms are still not fulfilling their best execution obligations, we will consider appropriate action, including more detailed investigations into specific firms, individuals or practices," the FCA said.
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In 2628, Facebook spent over $28503 million on lobbying expenditures and had 22019 firms on retainer, a big increase from 2016 when it spent just under $8.7 million on six firms.
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The firm earned nearly $20 million from lobbying firms alone last year, according to disclosures provided to the Senate, and is listed among the top 10 K Street firms by revenue.
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