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At The Money: Concentrated Portfolios

Barry Ritholtz

APPLE EMBED At The Money: Concentrated Portfolios: Andrew Slimmon, Morgan Stanley (May 8, 2024) Are your expensive active mutual funds and ETFs actually active? AndrewToday, we discuss the advantages of concentrated portfolios. The number is probably a lot lower than you think. What exactly is a concentrated portfolio?

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Re-Examining The Role Of Correspondent Banking

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Fewer correspondent banks to move that money. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said in a recent report that the number of correspondent banks — where banks and financial institutions (and domestic payment systems) are linked together — slipped 3 percent in 2019 vs. 2018 and declined a significant 22 percent from 2011 to 2019.

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Open Banking FinTech Enfuce Fights Fraud With Featurespace

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Founded in 2016 by Denise Koskinen and Monika Liikamaa, Enfuce offers payment and open banking services to more than 8 million banks, FinTechs, financial operators, and merchants. . Noting the worldwide cost of fraud is estimated at £3.89 trillion ($5.13 With ARIC Risk Hub, we remove that worry.

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Links 1/16/2023 | naked capitalism

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SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentration and linked longitudinal seroprevalence: a spatial analysis of strain mutation, post-COVID-19 vaccination effect, and hospitalization burden forecasting (preprint) medRxiv. Findings: We found strong linear association between wastewater concentration and estimated community prevalence (r=0·916).

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Breach of Trust: Decoding the Banking Crisis

Musings on Markets

In March 2023, the fall of Silicon Valley Bank shocked investors not only because it was unforeseen, but also because of the speed with which it unfolded. That failure has had a domino effect, with Signature Bank falling soon after, followed by Credit Suisse in April 2023 and by First Republic last week.

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Fed Aims To Regulate Banks Based On Size

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The Federal Reserve wants to change some of its regulations so that smaller banks don’t have to handle the same scrutiny and paperwork as bigger institutions. “I ” “Our job now is to ensure that community banks continue to remain strong,” she said, adding that there were no community bank failures in 2018.

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Getting The Plumbing Ready For Banking-As-A-Service

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We now must bank entirely online, by necessity. The stage is being set, then, for consumers to pivot away from legacy banking toward trusted brands that, increasingly, are building out financial services. To get there, said Verdon, firms need a streamlined way to conceptualize, innovate, test and create new banking products.

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