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Sweden’s Central Bank Floats E-Krona As Digital Currency

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Sweden’s Riksbank is assessing e-krona, a new form of digital currency that hopes to take the country a step closer to the creation of the world’s first central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to reports on Thursday (Feb. CBDCs are a digital form of traditional money issued and governed by a country’s central bank.

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Dollars Are For Spending & Investing, Not Saving

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That comp gets deposited directly into my bank account, and that money is available for purchasing necessities (food, housing, clothing, medicine, transportation, etc.) Whether it’s a few decades or a century, the math works the same. That compensation is in a currency that is a widely accepted medium of exchange.

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Why AI Risk Tech And Banks Could Be A Match Made In Heaven

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When they are filtered through smart AI that is learning all the time, along with “fancy math,” it allows Upstart’s system to approve more borrowers at a lower cost than traditional systems can because the Upstart system is more accurate in assigning risk.

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Zest AI CEO: Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Lending and Credit

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It’s here now and being used to make good banks better — whether to eliminate discrimination in lending decisions, add stability to existing screening systems or drive loan growth and profits. Ensuring Inclusive Banking. He said everyone in banking — from small credit unions to giant U.S. It’s not an idea, it’s not a postulate.

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Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. Slate ) • Guess Who Loses After Florida and Texas Bar ESG Banks? Here’s your investing playbook.

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Barry Ritholtz

KCP Group ). • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life : Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math. ( She is on various “Most Powerful Women in Finance lists” including American Banker, Crains Rising Stars in Banking & Finance 2020. The Atlantic ). •

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The Mt. Gox Bitcoin Math That Doesn’t Add Up

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bank to use blockchain for international payments, according to a Reuters report — and it is said to possibly bring the service to its customer base within the year. Ground Zero’ For Banks And Blockchain. As for what else happened this week in bitcoin … Santander Takes Blockchain Cross-Border. Santander has become the first U.K.

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