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...Rio chief executive Jean-Sébastien Jacques and chief financial officer Christopher Lynch saw their short-term incentives (STI) reduced last year in light of two fatalities....
...In the first quarter, it signed up 877,000 postpaid customers, who are viewed as more lucrative than those with prepaid accounts, and boosted its full-year guidance for new postpaid customer additions to...
...Think of it this way, if you’re not lending money as much as prepaid redemption rights to goods and services at Alibaba — on the condition, of course, that you get more rights to goods and services in the...
...Melissa Cook, CFA, is founder and managing director of Africa Sunrise Partners LLC, an investment advisory and consultancy on Africa....
...The company’s plans to acquire Leap Wireless, a prepaid mobile operator, for $1.2bn in cash, would “provide us with an opportunity to expand services to customers in a segment of the market which we believe...
...That’s not to say the government wouldn’t eventually be able to spend prepaid amounts, but only if and when knew it could really depend on early tax prepayment....
...That is almost 4m more than the current leader in prepaid, Sprint. Sprint could get squeezed....
...“The Sprint platform performed well, with strong net subscriber additions, record third-quarter postpaid and prepaid churn and robust revenue growth, contributing to adjusted operating income before depreciation...
...Sprint finished the quarter with a total of 42.7m prepaid and postpaid subscribers....
...For both AT&T and Verizon, their most profitable days are behind them as prepaid services gain market share and the cost of spectrum and network expansion rises....
...As in the past few quarters, the growth came from the less profitable prepaid and wholesale side....
...In addition, Sprint added 646,000 new prepaid customers, which include its Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile USA brands in the latest quarter....
...Alternatively Google Wallet will also come with a virtual Google prepaid card that can be topped up using a bank payment card....
...But this is small solace given prepaid’s lower profitability....
...Accor’s prepaid services business issues vouchers to corporate clients, which distribute them as perks to employees who use them to pay for goods and services; Accor collects fees from clients and merchants...
...Analysts estimate that the vouchers and financial services business, which provides employee luncheon vouchers and prepaid bank cards, could be worth as much as €6bn ($8.6bn)....
...The joint venture, called PrePay Solutions, will be developed around Accor’s PrePay Technologies, the prepaid card unit acquired by Accor in 2007....
...“Unlike some other prepaid services, our new flat-rate plan will not include any of these charges; what you see is what you get,” he said....
...Cablevision, which is also based on Long island, New York, will pay $612m for a 97 per cent stake in Newsday, plus an additional $18m in prepaid rent for some facilities.Tribune will keep a remaining 3 per...
...Bernstein Research reckons they make up a quarter of Sprint’s prepaid base, compared with a fifth of AT&T’s and just 15 per cent of Verizon’s. For now, though, this remains a Sprint-specific problem....
...Mr Agassi’s company plans to offer driver long-term prepaid packages for recharging which, he said, would sharply bring down the cost of electric cars....
...The fourth quarter is traditionally a strong period for prepaid mobile phone sales in the US but industry analysts said both retail prepaid net subscriber additions of 746,000 and wholesale gains were ahead...
...The retailer will launch a prepaid card aimed at customers who do not have access to a bank account and the stock has been upgraded this week....
...And the group signed up half a million low-value prepaid customers but only 210,000 postpaid customers....
...Unlike other bonds, investors in mortgage-backed paper receive not only regular interest, but cash from home buyers' monthly mortgage repayments and prepaid loans....
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