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Unpacking the TP dimension of funding arrangements in the banking sector
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- 22 Apr 2024
- Ralf Heussner, Anodri Suchdeve, Fangying Xu
Ralf Heussner, Anodri Suchdeve, and Fangying Xu of Deloitte examine the transfer pricing challenges arising from an increasing number of intra-bank funding arrangements as stricter capital requirements trigger the attention of regulators and tax authorities.
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UK insolvencies jump 14% in 2023 after interest rates surge
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- 16 Jan 2024
- Tom Rees
The number of UK companies suffering insolvency jumped 14% in 2023 as firms collapsed under the weight of higher borrowing costs and weaker economic growth. The article gives an overview of the factors involved and the sectors most affected.
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Supply chain finance in the trenches
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- 01 Oct 2023
- J. Stephen McNally
Former Campbell's Soup supply chain finance executive J.Stephen McNally shares stories 'from the trenches' on how CFOs and their teams can effectively collaborate with their cross-functional colleagues in supply chain management to mitigate supply chain disruption and build stronger operations.
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Who learns fastest, wins: Lean Startup and Discovery Driven Growth
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- 01 Oct 2023
- Rita Gunther McGrath
Most entrepreneurial ventures and startups fail. Against this backdrop, Lean Startup and Discovery-Driven Growth (DDG) are methods that emphasize rapid learning, resource parsimony, and focus on validating assumptions as ways of reducing the cost and risk of failure. Rita Gunther McGrath looks at the benefits of both methods, suggesting that they are a major advance over traditional planning processes because they both emphasize rapid learning. She also provides a 'flops file' of massive corporate failures and analyses the mistakes made.
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The language of crowd-funding
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- 01 Sep 2023
- Daniela Blei
Do crowdfunders seeking donations see different results depending on the phrasing they use? A new paper to be published in the Journal of Consumer Research investigates the language of crowdfunding appeals by mining some ten years of data from crowdfunding platforms GoFundMe and Kickstarter. Daniela Blei reports on the outcomes.
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UK home sellers cut asking prices for first time this year
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- 17 Jul 2023
- Jill Namatsi
UK property sellers cut their asking prices for the first time this year, an indication that a sharp jump in borrowing costs is cutting into what buyers can afford. The figures confirm a trend toward lower prices reported by mortgage lenders, suggesting that home sellers are beginning to lower their expectations for how much they can get.
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Tax residency issues on structuring Mexican venture capital investments
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- 26 Jun 2023
- Oscar A. López Velarde and Gabriel Márquez García
Venture capital funds and investors often fail to give due consideration to the Mexican tax residence rules, say Oscar A. López Velarde and Gabriel Márquez García of Ritch Mueller.
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Think big: Frontaal invests in a new brewery
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- 01 Jun 2023
- Rebecca Szkutak
Netherlands brewery company Frontaal discusses their growth through crowdfunding, which has generated EUR 5m in capital, with around 5,500 beer-lovers now counting themselves among the co-owners of the brewery. The company sees this community of shareholders as being one of the advantages of raising money by crowdfunding. The economics of running a microbrewery and the logistical challenges of installing a new brewery operation are also discussed.
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Startups stung by UK delay in awarding tax credits to innovators
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- 13 Apr 2023
- Aisha S Gani
Some UK startup businesses have been waiting upwards of six months to receive research and development tax credits from HMRC, forcing some to take out loans to plug the gap in funds. The Fintech trade body Innovate Finance said it has member firms worried about lengthy delays that make it difficult to predict their cash flows. HMRC has acknowledged that it had extended processing times.
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The Silicon Valley Bank Hangover
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- 03 Apr 2023
- Lizette Chapman
The failure of venture capital’s favourite financial institution, the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), is a sign of more trouble to come for the technology sector. SVB's failure can be seen as a symptom of problems in a venture capital industry hit by interest-rate hikes, says Joshua Brustein. As a consequence, startup companies are likely to have to start taking money on less attractive terms.
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Go with the P2P flow
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- 01 Apr 2023
- Eliot Hastie
For investors looking for an income stream, peer-to-peer (P2P) lending provides an attractive alternative to regular banking products. The article discusses the potential advantages and risks of P2P lending in the current economic environment. Written from an Australian perspective.
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A startup CFO used ChatGPT to build an FP&A tool - here's how it went
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- 02 Mar 2023
- Sheryl Estrada
There's been an ongoing debate over the possible uses and pitfalls of OpenAI's ChatGPT. One CFO set out to prove the value of the technology by using it to create a financial planning and analysis (FP&A) proof-of-concept chatbot. The idea is that the bot will respond to your data queries as if you were talking to an FP&A analyst.
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Managing interest rate risk with FASB’s new hedging flexibility
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- 01 Mar 2023
- Mark D.Mishler
Find out how to apply FASB’s updated hedge accounting guidance, which more closely aligns a company’s financial reporting with the results of its risk management strategy. The update also simplified fair-value hedge accounting for investments in debt securities.
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When best to scale up
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- 01 Mar 2023
- Hamdi Ulukaya
A new study sheds light on the debate into how fast a high-growth company should scale up. From examining job postings from 38,000 start-ups, the researchers found those start-ups that had scaled up in the first year were 20-40% more likely than others to have failed. They also found that using A/B testing software significantly raised a start-up's odds of success.
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Feature: the pros of the Hybrid Start-Up
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- 01 Mar 2023
- Nathan Furr, Kate O'Keeffe
How established companies can create a 'Hybrid Start-Up' - a new model that combines the best of people, processes, and resources from both inside and outside the company. Evidence suggests that it is two or three times as likely as an independent start-up to succeed.
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Nurturing the UK's innovation ecosystem
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- 07 Feb 2023
- Sebastian Klovig Skelton
Andrew Roughan, CEO of technology innovation hub Plexal, discusses how tech startups collaborate with the UK government to transform public services, the barriers to entry, and how the process can be improved.
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The key to a successful business scale-up
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- 01 Jan 2023
- Martin Kupp, Jeffrey F.Rayport, Davide Sola
How to master the “extrapolation” stage, when business start-ups begin to focus on profitability, not just growth. The authors share their advice, based on their experience teaching business school courses on scaling up enterprises and their analysis of dozens of rapidly growing start-ups.
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Startups that grew fast learn shrinking can be just as hard
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- 15 Aug 2022
- Aggi Cantrill, Olivia Solon
Lessons from dismissal methods chosen by downsizing companies - there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. Some start-ups try to make redundancies exceptionally quickly, but find employees who stay lose a lot of trust.
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A 'radical' market data approach to startup valuations
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- 01 Apr 2022
Valuation professional Michael Blake has issued a challenge to appraisers of early-stage companies: add rationality to valuing startups by relying more heavily on market inputs. The article covers some of the non-standard sources of market data recommended by Blake for valuing startups.
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The strategic risks facing start-ups in the financial sector
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- 31 Mar 2022
- Patrick McConnell
The majority of start-ups fail. But some succeed, and a very small number succeed spectacularly. However they all face enormous risks.
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Greece gains investment activity from foreign private equity funds
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- 28 Mar 2022
- Michael Stefanakis
Michael Stefanakis of Deloitte Greece explains how investors can avoid certain pitfalls when considering tax structures for foreign private equity funds
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Show us the money: A guide to raising capital
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- 01 Feb 2022
- Glenn Baker
Securing investor funding is the key to accelerating business growth, particularly for fledging ventures. NZ Business magazine shares advice from three of New Zealand's leading funding platforms, including tips on preparing for an equity crowdfunding campaign. As well as venture capital, an emerging alternative is 'venture-debt'.
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Costs and benefits of start-up funding
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- 01 Nov 2021
- Miguel Fernandez
A look at the financing options available (and pitfalls to avoid) for start-ups and midsize companies, including venture equity, corporate venture capital, venture debt and angel investors. A list of questions to ask when vetting potential investors is given.
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Startups can raise from crowdfunding sites and get their venture capital too
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- 14 Oct 2021
- Rebecca Szkutak
Increasingly startups are looking to crowdfunding platforms not to collect their entire rounds, but rather as tools to bring different types of investors in a raise.
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Startups sick of Facebook swap equity for TV ads
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- 22 Jun 2021
- Adam Blenford, Ivan Levingston
For years, consumer-focused tech startups have paid social media and search engine firms to promote their content. But lately some ambitious newcomers have spiced up that formula with a medium often written off as more 20th century - broadcast TV adverts.
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Reasons start-ups fail
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- 01 May 2021
- Tom Eisenmann
Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann shares some of the research findings from his book, Why Startups Fail, in which he identifies recurring patterns behind start-up business failure.
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Greece introduces enhanced tax incentives for research and development
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- 15 Mar 2021
- Stella Saritzoglou
Stella Saritzoglou of EY in Greece explores the enhanced tax incentives granted for research and development, which are expected to boost research activities in the country.
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Venture capitalist decision making
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- 01 Mar 2021
- Pablo Boneu, Paul Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N.Kaplan, Ilya A.Strebulaey
Following perhaps the most comprehensive survey of venture capital (VC) firms to date, the authors share their findings, offering details of how VCs hunt for deals, assess opportunities and structure agreements with founders.
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Impacts of venture capital on online P2P lending platforms: Empirical evidence from China
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- 07 Aug 2020
- Hufeng Yang, Han Li, Zhen Hu, Guotai Chi
An examination of the impacts of venture capital investment (VCI) on the performance of online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms.
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The perks of hiring your best customers
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- 01 Jul 2020
- Amy Douthit
This article looks at why social enterprises should look at their own customer base as a source of talent. It covers start-ups and established companies alike creating similar working models around the people they hire; and hiring actual users of the product or service, guaranteeing that customer care specialists are true specialists.
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