This morning, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will be speaking on the just-unveiled $2.3 trillion plan to get more money flowing throughout our shutdown economy. The Fed’s dual mandate is stable prices and full employment. This morning we learned that another 6 million people have filed for unemployment insurance last week, which is on top […]
Archives for April 2020
Google must pay news firms for content: French regulator
Image Credit: REUTERS/Hannah McKay France’s competition regulator said Thursday that Google must start paying media groups for displaying their content, ordering it to begin negotiations after refusing for months to comply with Europe’s new digital copyright law. The agency said it “requires Google, within three months, to conduct negotiations in good faith with publishers and […]
Cisco ‘Critical Update’ Phishing Attack Steals Webex Credentials
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SIPP pioneer dies of Coronavirus at 82
SIPP pioneer Geoffrey Pointon has died at the age of 82 from Coronavirus, according to reports in his local newspaper the Rutland and Stamford Mercury. Tributes have been paid locally and nationally to the industry veteran who died at Kettering General Hospital on 2 April. A father-of-five, he was active in the local business community […]
Online searches for games, movies soar amid lockdown: Report
More Indians are searching online for information on games, movies, books as well as grocery and food delivery services. In view of the ongoing lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, online searches related to these topics and more have surged, says web analytics firm SEMrush, which shared its search data exclusively with ET. Searches for […]
FCA to launch daily email alerts on Coronavirus
The FCA announced today that it will shortly launch daily email updates covering FCA Coronavirus news and related publications. Subscribers to the updates can register for daily or weekly email alerts. The information will also be available on the FCA website. Anyone interested in receiving the alerts can sign up now in advance here join the […]
Indian government warms up to e-commerce firms
Image Credit: REUTERS/Adnan Abidi Three days after India imposed a nationwide lockdown, Devender Singh revved up his motorcycle to deliver meat and eggs to customers – but his heart was in his mouth as he closed in on a police barricade on a deserted New Delhi road. Beatings of delivery workers by overzealous police after […]
Zoom hires ex-Facebook security chief as Google bans desktop app
Zoom has tapped former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos as an adviser as safety and privacy concerns about its fast-growing video-conferencing app drive a global backlash against the company. That backlash includes a move on Wednesday by Alphabet’s Google to ban the desktop version of Zoom from corporate laptops. In a stark illustration of Zoom’s […]
Kitces & Carl Ep 32: Communicating Triggers And Breaking The News That The Plan Has To Change
Executive Summary Now that the initial shockwaves of the coronavirus pandemic have passed, and individuals around the globe are adjusting to the current state of affairs, financial advisors are immersed in the process of updating clients’ financial plans to understand whether or how the recent market volatility has actually impacted them. As while the perpetual […]
SIPP firm brings forward e-signatures plan
Momentum Pensions, a UK and international SIPP and pension provider, has accelerated the introduction of electronic signatures for pension and investment forms to help advisers and clients during the Coronavirus outbreak. The pension specialist was planning to offer e-signatures from May but brought this forward to this month as the pandemic forced advisers to give […]