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The full list of major US companies slashing staff this year, including Meta, ExxonMobil, and Boeing
Gary Stevenson, the author of "The Trading Game," spent his early 20s trading trillions of dollars for Citibank in London and Tokyo.
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The banking industry took its time to transition from paper bills to plastic cards. Now it’s in the midst of a more rapid transformation: going digital.