June 10, 2023
Exactly one month ago I got married at St Andrew’s Church in Didling in front of the vicar, family and friends. It was divine. However, as an atheist of Hitchens’ stature, I had to hold in a strange hypocritical pain. Fortunately, banking has taught me this. Inconsistency and self-deception were part and parcel of the
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The House of Representatives has approved measures to encourage social responsibility in the private corporate sector by providing them with fiscal incentives when they participate in corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects and programs in communities. With a vote of 283 to three and zero abstentions, lawmakers approved the third and final House Bill 451 last
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(old rankings above are considered not inclusive enough) I mentioned that the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) is the reason companies are waking up. This is an imaginary social credit rating based on the company’s compliance with WOKE policies. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the major international political lobbying group that determines the CEI ranking, has
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This article is a local version of our FirstFT Newsletter. Subscribe to our Asia, Europe/Africa P America edition to receive it straight to your inbox every weekday morning More big US companies shelter in bankruptcy courta sign of a worsening credit crunch as interest rates rise and financial markets become less hospitable to borrowers. Eight
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Published May 23, 2023 10:13 AM To FIR staff ‘Job Requirements’ of Debt Ceiling Agreements Will Hurt Low-Paid Workers and Spark Corporate Greed Republicans are weaponizing the debt ceiling to impose “working requirements” for Medicaid and aid programs like SNAP and TANF. Below, EPI offers information on the risk of including “performance requirements” in a
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Last month, Apple launched Apple Pay later, essentially a Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) service that allows users to set up a payment plan with zero interest or fees. Currently the BNPL sector flourishesachieving record growth in just a few short years thanks to fintech investments and a surge in consumer interest. BNPL Applications were
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Pulitzer Prize-winning digital media outlet BuzzFeed News is shutting down as part of a cost-cutting program by its parent company, which is cutting about 15% of its entire workforce, adding to layoffs made earlier this year. In a memo sent to Buzzfeed Inc. John Peretti’s co-founder and CEO said Thursday that in addition to the
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Acer has added another impressive device to its long list of corporate laptops with the launch of the Acer TravelMate P6 14, a business laptop that offers impressive premium features that make it absolutely reliable on the go. The TravelMate P6 14 is a business laptop that weighs just 2.3 pounds but boasts a 65
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on the regulation of the Reserve Bank outsourcing from IT Services banking sector is aimed at improving corporate governance and protecting the interests of consumers, industry experts say. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently published detailed regulations on outsourcing of IT services by banks, NBFC and other regulated financial sector entities to ensure that such
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Lambert is here: This is since the end of March, but I think it’s good that all these three cases from Canada, USA and Greece are collected together in one post with guns of guilt properly placed. Justin Mikulka, New Consensus Fellow. Prior to joining New Consensus in October 2021, Justin worked at DeSmog, where
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