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Quartr and Lightyear partners to bring free and easy-to-access company information for investors across Europe

Published: Jan. 18, 2023 at 2:12 AM CST|Updated: 2 hours ago

Finance software startup Quartr signs an API deal with Lightyear, an online broker based in Londonserving customers in 20 countries across europe. Lightyear will, through this integration, get access to Quartr’s database of earnings calls, accompanying documents, reports, and slide decks. This partnership also means that public companies get a completely new distribution channel for their information.

STOCKHOLM and NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Quartr (www.quartr.com) continues to move forward on its mission to bring the financial community closer together

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Peloton hires former Twitter executive as new head of marketing
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Peloton hires former Twitter executive as new head of marketing

Leslie Berland, chief marketing officer of Twitter Inc., speaks during the company’s #HereWeAre Women In Tech event at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018.

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Platoon is bringing in Leslie Berland, Twitter’s former marketing head, as its next chief marketing officer, effective Wednesday.

Berland left Twitter in November amid a slew of executive departures after Elon Musk’s takeover, which has led to significant restructuring and revenue drops at the social media giant. She previously helped lead marketing at American Express for 10 years.

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Starbucks workers in Valparaiso file for union election

Workers at a Starbucks in Valparaiso filed for a union election that could make the coffee shop on LaPorte Avenue just the second unionized Starbucks in Indiana, saying they have trouble paying their bills at a time when the company is reaping record profits.

Hourly workers at the Starbucks at 2310 LaPorte Ave., near Target at the Valparaiso Marketplace outdoor shopping mall, asked the National Labor Relations Board for union representation. An overwhelming majority of workers at the store signed union authorization cards, according to the Chicago and Midwest Regional Joint Board of Workers United.

Spokespeople for Starbucks, the Seattle-based

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Data and Integration Push Evolving CFO Role

Holistic business planning and digital tools are increasingly evolving the responsibilities of finance teams.

This, as macroeconomic-driven headwinds create friction points and prompt organizations to turn to more centralized and streamlined strategies for their working capital and spending needs.

PYMNTS recently sat down with Kevin Held, CFO at cloud-based treasury and liquidity solution management company Hazeltree, to talk about the importance of finance and accounting teams taking, and acting upon, a big-picture view of their organization’s needs, as well as the changing responsibilities of the CFO office he’s witnessed throughout his career.

“You know,” Held said to PYMNTS, “finance and

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Trump Organization fined $1.6 million for tax fraud – Business News
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Trump Organization fined $1.6 million for tax fraud – Business News

Trump firm fined $1.6M

The Canadian Press – | Story: 406089

Donald Trump’s company was fined $1.6 million Friday as punishment for a scheme in which the former president’s top executives dodged personal income taxes on lavish job perks — a symbolic, hardly crippling blow for an enterprise boasting billions of dollars in assets.

A fine was the only penalty a judge could impose on the Trump Organization for its conviction last month for 17 tax crimes, including conspiracy and falsifying business records.

The amount

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Healthcare and Data Tracking – Rickard & Associates
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Healthcare and Data Tracking – Rickard & Associates

Recently, Facebook’s parent company Meta was fined by the European Union regarding its privacy policies and advertisement targeting.

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The recent decision in the EU may impact how Meta operates in the United States.

The ruling found that Meta violated the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which provides individuals with the right to reject the collection and processing of personal data for advertisement targeting.

Meta plans on appealing to the ruling.

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Is the Biggest Lie in Finance Costing You $900,000?
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Is the Biggest Lie in Finance Costing You $900,000?

Few Ph.D papers have been more influential than economist Eugene Fama’s 1965 thesis.

Fama’s hypothesis helped spark a school of thought in finance that held that all efforts to beat the stock market over the long term were futile.

Called the efficient market hypothesis, it maintains that all of the relevant information concerning a company’s prospects would already be known and “priced into” the stock.

Individual investors might pick a stock they felt could yield outsized returns, and a few might get lucky and beat the markets for a short while.

But the efficient market hypothesis held that eventually, investors’

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Martin Lewis suggests a cheaper alternative for drying laundry
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Martin Lewis suggests a cheaper alternative for drying laundry

Martin Lewis, the popular TV money-saving expert, has outdone himself in 2022, helping millions of Britons to navigate a desperately bleed cost of living crisis by dishing out vital personal finance tips at a time when many are in need of all the practical help they can get.

Bringing compassion and expertise to his appearances on his ITV programme The Martin Lewis Money Show Livevia his BBC podcast, his website and newsletter and through his regular media interviews, Lewis is providing a welcome public service to those struggling to make ends meet.

No concern is too small to warrant

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