Schwab's business outside the U.S. accounts for less than 3% of total customer assets.
These firms earn most of their income by investing customer assets that are held as deposits, loans and other securities.
The auditor for a firm like this must annually review the procedures for safeguarding customer and firm assets in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Act.
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Meyer, the only woman on the management team, has also dialed up research, customer service, digital assets and partnerships.
Enterprises are also beginning to embrace IoT for tracking physical assets, managing customer relationships, and creating efficiencies in business operations and supply chains.
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These stores will have to be updated and given a new look since their low rent and customer loyalty makes them valuable assets.
Oracle has many overlapping and competing assets for CRM and customer service as well as for point solutions (ex email, chat, knowledge management).
This means that marketing is no longer viewed as merely a tool for building market share or short-term revenues, but is instead considered a strategic investment in building critical intangible assets, such as customer relationship and brand equity, which produce important long-term profits.
While plants and equipment maintain their worth, it's the intangible assets like brand names, customer loyalty and strategic alliances that suffer in such debacles.
On the negative side, revenue growth is decelerating at the same time Amazon is investing more than previously expected in fulfillment centers (fixed assets) and operating and customer service employees (variable costs).
Even then, the service would not release digital assets without examining a copy of the customer's death certificate, Toeman said.
On Monday, the Commodity Customer Coalition filed court papers objecting to a lien on MF Global assets secured by J.
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With a growing customer base, on-line exposure, minimal debt and very few assets, when the global economic crisis hit in 2008, Aramex was in prime position.
If a customer files for bankruptcy, the company often lines up with other creditors to collect whatever assets are left.
The practice includes hard assets like chairs and x-ray machines, but it also has a customer base that religiously returns every six months for a cleaning.
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Freedman claims, among other things, that Renaissance could not refund customer deposits because it had fraudulently spent the unearned revenue in a mad dash to increase its cruise ship assets before a planned stock offering.
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