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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Published reports indicate that China’s central bank and banking, securities and foreign-exchange regulators summoned Ant Group executives this past weekend to discuss official concerns about the firm. Reuters quoted central bank Vice Gov. He said that’s exactly the combination of circumstances that led to the U.S.

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MAY 13, 2016

The nuclear deal that is in place between Iran and a number of other nations does not have the teeth it might otherwise have to help – and key to that stymied effort is the fact that Iran remains largely isolated from interacting with the global financial system. One key issue: banks have been balking at funding projects.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

billion-strong, high-spending consumers and their willingness to adapt to new technologies, trends and products may represent the economy of the future for many banks and businesses, but it is notoriously difficult for firms to enter and compete in this market. Confronting the Chinese Privacy Myth . in 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The favored narrative about banks and FinTech startups is generally not a love story. Banks represent the old way of handling financial services – and in fairness, they carry a lot of responsibilities that deposit-taking institutions don’t necessarily have. Usually, it is more of an all-out war story.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

The CFOs and treasurers throughout the globe are popping their bubbles when it comes to economic outlook. According to “ Managing Risk in Challenging Economic Times ,” released earlier this month, the majority of CFOs admit that they struggle to stay on top of how quickly the macroeconomic environment is changing.

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MAY 22, 2018

A bill that would give regional banks a break on regulation was before the U.S. The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act , S. 2155, would raise the threshold for a systemically important financial institution (SIFI) to $250 billion in assets from $50 billion. House, according to Congress.gov.

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JUNE 28, 2018

One of the recent cyberattacks against Latin American financial institutions, this one targeting Mexico’s central bank, resulted in the theft of a reported $15.2 No matter where they hit, though, cyberattacks on banks in Latin American have cost them more than just losses from theft. Fraud is a Top Worry.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

trillion gap in available trade finance, a staggering figure released last year by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Regulators, banks, customs, shipping, logistics and FinTech companies need to work together to inform new regulatory, legal and technical standards.”. Yet there is a $1.5 Alt-Fin’s Limited Impact.

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MARCH 28, 2016

The cost associated with check processing and the lose-lose business model for check clearing imposed on banks by the Fed is one of reasons that checks are such a drag on the financial system. In fact, my bank loses the use of those funds the minute that the check is presented, regardless of when Bryan uses the money.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

financial system — but not because they want money. It is of a piece, but those attacks are not for financial gain, but to a way of weakening the country and its standing on the world stage. We shifted the focus and we shifted to higher quality consumers — and we also shifted the mix of funding towards banks.”.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Buffet’s expertise in the economics of railroads grew out of his childhood fascination-turned lifelong interest in them. railroads were responsible for $274 billion in economic activity and employed 1.5 The economic impact of railroads isn’t felt only in the U.S. In 2014, the last time data was publicly reported , U.S.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In fact, I was going to be a strategist, financial analyst to work for a bank and write research reports. And the ability to say, gosh, you know, there’s a lot of stuff in fixed income, that for a variety of reasons, central bank owns it, a pension fund owns it, insurance companies own it. RIEDER: Right. It has no value.

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