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Moody’s: Nearly 40% of high-yield Asian issuers have weak liquidity

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The Asian Liquidity Stress Indicator (ALSI) climbed to its second weakest level, and the number of companies rated B3 and below continued to increase in the first quarter of 2020 following a surge of downgrades in Q1, said Moody's Investors Service. . The ALSI climbed to 38.7% in March from 32.9%

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OCC Defines Top Threats To Banks This Season

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When it is running well, it powers tremendous growth and economic prosperity for consumers, businesses and communities across the country,” said Keith A. Over time, consolidation among service providers has resulted in large numbers of banks reliant on a small number of service providers.”. Amid these fluctuations, the U.S.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. I don’t remember the number. The challenge is unlike the S&P 500, hedge funds sit in a box that has underlying credit risk from prime brokers. So the credit markets froze. So you’re talking about an average of a large number. Less, 20, 30%?

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Channeling Retail’s Inner Animal

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They say that understanding how animals forage for their food is helpful in understanding how consumers forage for everything they buy — and even what type of credit risk they are in the process. He and his colleagues examined nearly 16 million credit and debit transactions for more than 10,000 consumers over a period of three months.

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Transcript: Ken Kencel

Barry Ritholtz

Ken was there at the beginning of the private credit markets when he was working at Drexel. And then I left there and joined a number of my colleagues from Drexel and launched a business that as it turns out, was pretty much a carbon copy of the business we have today. What is the state of private credit looked like today?