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EACCNY ‘Moving to the U.S.’ Series | Cultural Aspects of Working as a European in the United States

With the help of our members, we are creating a Thought-Leadership series on important factors to take into consideration when ‘Moving to the United States’. Today, we present Lisa Patti M.S., CCC-SLP, Founder & CEO of C3SPEECH; and Floor Bergshoeff, Business Developer at TABS INC. who will address: “Cultural Aspects of Working as a European in the United States”. | We are communicating globally more and more yet how often do we get in the mindset of our colleagues from abroad....

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ECB | Frank Elderson: Towards an immersive supervisory approach to the management of climate-related and environmental risks in the banking sector

Keynote speech by Frank Elderson, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB, Industry outreach on the thematic review on climate-related and environmental risks| Frankfurt am Main, 18 February 2022 | Welcome to this industry outreach event organised by ECB Banking Supervision on the management and supervision of climate-related and environmental risks, or C&E risks for short. Our focus today is the current state of C&E risk management practices in the...

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ECB | Philip R. Lane: Inflation in the near-term and the medium-term

Opening remarks by Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at MNI Market News Webcast | Frankfurt am Main, 17 February 2022 | In these brief opening remarks, I wish to discuss the forces shaping near-term and medium-term inflation dynamics. On near-term inflation, I emphasised in a blog post last week that the current high inflation rates have been largely shaped by a pandemic cycle that has generated global bottlenecks for manufactured goods over the last year...

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MJV | What does the Metaverse have to teach us about CX?

The original posting can be found on MJV Technology & Innovation's website  here | P&G, Microsoft, Epic Games (Fortnite), Walmart, and H&M are some of the giants that have joined Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse. But, why have these companies decided to join now, and what do these moves tell us about Customer Experience? Read on to find out. Forget about social networks. From now on, who will claim the piece of digital coexistence space, both in his personal and professional life, will...

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RavenPack | 3 ways NLP can help uncover more alpha during Earnings Season

With hundreds of companies holding their earnings conference calls on the same day, it is hard to keep up. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the trump card for analysts and investors to capture alpha in Earnings Season. Every quarter, the couple of weeks that constitute Earnings Season continues to afford substantial opportunities to harness alpha, but with hundreds of companies holding their earnings conference calls on the same day, analysts and investors are left with no choice but to prioritize...

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Noerr | Crypto Asset Transfer Regulation: Increasing regulation of crypto assets

Not only is the crypto and blockchain sector developing dynamically, but the related regulations are as well: On 1 October 2021, the German Crypto Asset Transfer Regulation (Kryptowertetransferverordnung – ”CATR“) issued by the German Federal Ministry of Finance came into force. The regulation intends to improve the traceability of the transfer of crypto assets. To date, crypto assets could be transferred largely anonymously. The legislator therefore assumes these transfers involve an increased risk of money laundering, terrorism funding and other criminal...

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IPTI | Update on U.S. & EU Property Tax Issues: February 2022

The EACC, in partnership with the International Property Tax Institute (IPTI), wants to keep its members up to date with the latest developments in property taxes in the USA and Europe. IPTI has put together below a selection of articles from IPTI Xtracts; more articles can be found on its website (www.ipti.org). UNITED STATES Colorado: Property tax rates poised to skyrocket in coming years, report by business group finds Coloradans are facing massive property tax increases in the coming years due to...

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IMF | Supply Disruptions Add to Inflation, Undermine Recovery in Europe

'With supply constraints likely to persist, the challenge for policymakers is to support recovery without allowing high inflation to become entrenched.' When countries asked people to stay at home to control COVID-19, consumers cut spending on services and bought more manufactured goods instead. The reopening of economies boosted manufacturing output, but renewed lockdowns and shortages of intermediate inputs from chemicals to microchips caused the factory recovery to stall. Prices of core consumer goods rose rapidly as delivery times reached...

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Green Deal: EU invests over €110 million in LIFE projects for environment and climate in 11 EU countries

Today, the Commission is announcing an investment of over €110 million into LIFE programme integrated projects for environmental and climate protection, selected after a call for proposals covering the year 2020. The funding will support new major environmental and climate projects in 11 EU countries - Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland and Slovenia. The projects contribute to a green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and support the European Green Deal's objectives of making...

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IMF | Three Policy Priorities for a Robust Recovery

By Kristalina Georgieva | 'We must work together to end the pandemic, navigate monetary tightening and shift focus to fiscal sustainability.' When the Group of Twenty finance ministers and central bank governors gather in Jakarta, in person and virtually, this week, they can take inspiration from the Indonesian phrase, gotong royong, “working together to achieve a common goal. This spirit is more important than ever as countries are facing a tough obstacle course this year. The good news is that the ...

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