Utilisation of foreign trade zones in the global supply chain: an exploratory study

Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs) are considered duty-free areas and, thus, not governed by the usual customs and tariff controls. In other words, the merchandise permitted in the FTZ may be stored, sold, exhibited, labelled, repacked, assembled, distributed and mixed with other merchandise without paying customs duty until merchandise is released from the zone. Deferred customs duties in the FTZs can contribute significantly to the profitability.

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Primerica

Primerica’s roots date back to 1977 when the company embarked on a revolutionary crusade to transform the life insurance industry. Primerica’s “Buy Term and Invest the Difference” philosophy encourages middle-income families to purchase affordable term life insurance so they can have more money to invest in their family’s future. Today, Primerica has expanded its crusade to address the number one financial disease facing families today: debt. Primerica offers solutions to help families eliminate crippling debt from their household finances and save more of their hard-earned money for the future.

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To Buy or To Build: Which is the Best Path for Digital Transformation?

whitePaper | December 1, 2021

Modern, cloud-based digital technology is necessary for financial institutions that are seeking to address the customer experience, improve internal operational effectiveness, streamline internal communications and allow access to data across the enterprise. For years, the only option was to develop such technology in-house, at great expense and expenditure of resources. But today, banks and credit unions have a better option: the ability to buy technology and implement it quickly, cost effectively and more efficiently than they could on their own.

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The Case for Re-inventing the Credit Decisioning Approach

whitePaper | April 14, 2023

The importance of credit decisioning in the success of a credit business cannot be overemphasized. Credit businesses are heavily dependent on their business rules, mathematical models, and data to make profitable decisions. Customer behavior and expectations have been irrevocably transformed as a result of the pandemic, and the use of alternative credit products such as BNPL, peer-to-peer lending,

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FinTech Trends for 2021 - What will 2021 bring us in FinTech Innovation?

whitePaper | April 14, 2021

So what will 2021 - and beyond - bring us in FinTech innovation? Central Bank Digital Currencies? - perhaps - but some would argue that most currency is already digital: how much physical cash did you handle in the last year? And how much was transacted by digital money transfer, real-time payments, card transactions, mobile wallets… Does money actually exist? The news is full of how multi-million-pound artworks can now be represented by ‘non-fungible tokens’ which represent ‘digital’ but not physical ownership of the artworks.

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The Future of Fintech

whitePaper | October 1, 2022

Some of the best innovations come from recognizing pain points and having the resolve to alleviate them. The scope of fintech became visible over a decade ago, when the success of mobile money brought into sharp focus the potential inherent in the combination of finance and technology – with innovation and empathy.

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AWS User Guide to Financial Services Regulations and Guidelines in New Zealand

whitePaper | May 31, 2022

This document provides information to assist financial services institutions in New Zealand that are regulated by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as they accelerate their use of AWS Cloud services.

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How Modern Observability Eases Digital Transformation In Banking

whitePaper | November 3, 2022

TA bank’s digital team typically has full observability of only 11% of its application and infrastructure environments, according to the Global CIO Report 2020 by Dynatrace. The data and metrics-laden systems are too complex and, by association, timeconsuming for most in-house teams.

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Primerica

Primerica’s roots date back to 1977 when the company embarked on a revolutionary crusade to transform the life insurance industry. Primerica’s “Buy Term and Invest the Difference” philosophy encourages middle-income families to purchase affordable term life insurance so they can have more money to invest in their family’s future. Today, Primerica has expanded its crusade to address the number one financial disease facing families today: debt. Primerica offers solutions to help families eliminate crippling debt from their household finances and save more of their hard-earned money for the future.

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