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OCC Defines Top Threats To Banks This Season

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Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has again released its report on top risks facing banks, with its Spring 2017 analysis warning FIs that threats are coming from all angles. The federal banking system is, and should be, a source of strength for the nation and its economy.

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ESMA outlines its approach to reporting on systemic impacts of clearing

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Other EU institutions, such as the European Central Bank (ECB), have indicated they will feed their views into the ESMA report. ESMA will identify any difference in basis available between TC and EU CCPs, and model any concentration add-ons.   ESMA is expected to set out its findings in a report, expected in late 2021.

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Banks Aim AI At Credit Risk, Payments Services

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Of the seemingly inexhaustible uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial sector, its applications around managing credit risk and optimizing payment services are among the most promising. percent are doing so in credit underwriting. The second-most common application is credit underwriting, as 71.4

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APAC capital markets during the COVID-19 crisis

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Central banks are also pushing their supervised entities to go digital and prepare for their requirements and rewards. In the Philippines, the race on who can implement the best digital strategies and increase the use of digital banking among its clients and customers are on. No one was talking or worrying about NPL and reserves.

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Can Better, Digital Credit Help SMBs Thrive?

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Those receivables, an asset to the business, are only an asset when they become cash in that SMB’s bank account. Those smaller B2B operators “are not in the best position to be accepting and taking credit risks,” Sebastian Rymarz, chief business officer for Fundbox , told Karen Webster in a recent interview with PYMNTS.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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Digital banks. Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S., In an interview in 2013 , Founder and then-CEO Renaud Laplanche boasted that incumbent banks like Chase were “like Blockbuster Video” in a world in which tech and new lending models like LendingClub’s would bury them. Digital Banks. Blockchain.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. It was at Bank One, at the time. RITHOLTZ: There’s always risk involved with counterparties …. BITTERLY MICHELL: Always risk. It wasn’t even question.