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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Mike Ward, Chief Revenue Officer at World First (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You have a third segment that you wanted to talk about? Mike Ward: Those are all the three: corporate, and I believe I touched on consumer and e-commerce. Sramana Mitra: You touched on consumer and e-commerce. I don’t think you elaborated on the corporate. Mike Ward: From a corporate perspective, it covers many different
Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Mike Ward, Chief Revenue Officer at World First (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What are some of the use cases? Mike Ward: Private clients today might be an expat living abroad for a few years. You might have a consumer who is studying abroad. We pay part of that tuition for them. They could be buying a vacation home. From a corporate perspective, they might have their own website.
Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Mike Ward, Chief Revenue Officer at World First (Part 1)
In an increasingly globalized world, currency transfer is becoming increasingly digital. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to World First as well as yourself. Mike Ward: I’m the Chief Revenue Officer for World First for the global business unit. It was started in 2004. Jonathan Quinn and Nick Robinson were our two founders based out
Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Peter Horadan, CTO and EVP of Engineering at Avalara (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: The customer has everything happening in an auto mode. They don’t really have to worry about it as long as they authorize you and you have ways of figuring out which authority accepts what kind of filing. Accordingly, you handle them digitally or manually. That’s opaque to the customer. Peter Horadan: Exactly. We
Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Peter Horadan, CTO and EVP of Engineering at Avalara (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: You parameterize all these different pieces that are used in calculating the taxes. If I understood you correctly, even in a situation where merchants are selling through Amazon, Amazon will calculate the total sales tax to be collected on the transaction but when it comes to the merchant’s actual filing in all these
Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Peter Horadan, CTO and EVP of Engineering at Avalara (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: If you look at the space, what are the emerging trends in e-commerce you see that are creating more pressure on this kind of real-time tax calculation? Peter Horadan: One example is a customer of ours. They’re an online Amazon seller. They started using Amazon to manage their inventory. It’s a program called Fulfilment by
Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Peter Horadan, CTO and EVP of Engineering at Avalara (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Automated tax filing has been around for a long time. I did a story on Sabrix. That must have been 2007. We are in 2016. Peter Horadan: You’re right. It has been around for quite some time. One of the things we find amazing is that it has not yet been automated. Most
Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Peter Horadan, CTO and EVP of Engineering at Avalara (Part 1)
The increasing adoption of electronic commerce and the related national/global nature of the business has created challenges for merchants on the tax calculation and filing front. Read on to learn more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Avalara and yourself. Peter Horadan: I’m EVP of Engineering and CTO for Avalara. We help
