How to Stop Corporate Fraud in Its Tracks
BIZMOLOGY — Corporate fraud is on the rise. Your company and its business dealings are out there for all the world to see … and from which to steal. Welcome to the future. It’s now. It’s 2014, and we...
View ArticleRisky Business: Implement a Plan to Limit Your Company’s Exposure to Risk
BIZMOLOGY — The desire to succeed fuels company growth. At the helm of growing companies are C-level executives searching for advancement opportunities, better market positioning, and a boost in...
View ArticleHome Prices Slip as China Faces Consequences of “Ghost Cities”
BIZMOLOGY — You don’t have to be an economist to know that China’s property bubble is approaching — to be kind — an inflection point. Tales of unoccupied ghost cities have been legion for years. Vacant...
View ArticleHomeAway Opens Doors to Millennials
While Gen X and Boomers prop up the travel industry and provide it with a sturdy foundation for now, Millennials have become the fastest-growing segment of the travel market. And what’s interesting is...
View ArticleTravel Industry, Take Note: Here Come the Baby Boomers
Catering to Boomer trekkers should prove to be a boon for the travel industry in 2015. Americans age 50 and older plan to take an impressive 4.4 leisure trips on average during 2015 even as more than...
View ArticleDun & Bradstreet Salutes Small Business
Small businesses are the lifeblood of the economy, and with National Small Business Week right around the corner, Dun & Bradstreet is celebrating. For more than 170 years, D&B has helped small...
View ArticleD&B Data Show Business Health Varies across US Regions
The financial health of US companies has varied widely since the beginning of 2015, with companies in some geographic areas seeing more fractured financial risks than others, according to Dun and...
View ArticleNew 2015 Report: How CFOs Use Twitter
Our friends at social media agency Leadtail recently released a report on how CFOs are using social media, and the results are quite interesting. The report, done in collaboration with cloud accounting...
View ArticleThe Five Largest US Banks in 2015: Who is Winning?
Despite the “Too Big to Fail” mantra that used to threaten the image of mega-sized banks years ago, consumers and businesses have actually begun to hold more of their money in large banks in the years...
View ArticleNine CRM Solutions to Grow Your Small Business
Customer relationship management (CRM) software is pretty much an essential tool for growing a small business these days. It’s what companies use to efficiently track sales leads and existing...
View ArticlePolitical Risk Looms Over US Oil Imports
America’s oil industry has innovated and adapted at a staggering pace. However, regardless of oil price swings, the political risk footprint of America’s oil supply continues to evolve. The US has...
View ArticleForeign Debt Could Stall Growth in Malaysia, Indonesia
“Original sin” — in an economic context — was coined to help explain how foreign borrowing and weak currencies sent Asia into a full-blown financial crisis in the late 1990s. Now the term has...
View ArticleJewelry Sellers Profit as Enthusiasts Get Younger
Customers who frequent both brick-and-mortar and online jewelry stores today are a new breed of buyer. Savvy jewelery sellers aware of their morphing customer base and noting recent shifts in consumer...
View ArticleFive Lessons Marketers Can Learn from the Personal Finance Industry
Written by guest blogger Odysseas Papadimitriou, CEO of the personal finance websites WalletHub and CardHub. We are, in many ways, embroiled in an age of technological transformation — with driverless...
View ArticleUS Interest Rates Unchanged: What’s Next for Businesses?
The long-running debate on when the US Federal Reserve will start raising rates has been laid to rest for now. At its September meeting the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) left its target for the...
View ArticleA Look at US Businesses by Industry
Although the summer ended without a rate hike from the US Federal Reserve, interest rates will likely go up sometime later this year or in 2016, as the Fed moves from an accommodative policy to a more...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Most-Profitable Financial Companies in America
Big Money is back. While it was hard to imagine the re-emergence of financial companies during the depths of the Great Recession, the financial services sector is now the second-most-profitable by...
View ArticleTrade Terms Drive Successful Global Partnerships
Advising exporters on cross-border risk management strategy is tricky business. Credit sales via “open account” may win the most in sales — but what will collection rates look like? Dun &...
View ArticleHow “Internet of Things” Executives Use Twitter
These days you won’t find a bigger buzzword than the Internet of Things (IoT). For me, the word conjures up images of living in the world of The Jetsons. The IoT definition is broad and varied. For...
View ArticleD&B: Five Business Trends for 2016
With 2016 fast approaching, Dun & Bradstreet economists are focused on identifying and assessing the trends that will shape the year ahead. Here are five trends to watch, based on insights drawn...
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