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Can Better, Digital Credit Help SMBs Thrive?

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Until then, they can become a lock on that business’s access to the working capital it needs to grow and invest in itself, particularly as payments terms extend beyond 30 or 60 days — or worse, are never repaid at all in the event that a buyer goes bust. Tabs and Cash. It just hasn’t happened in B2B yet,” Rymarz said. In the U.S.,

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APAC capital markets during the COVID-19 crisis

Future CFO

We expect Credit and Political Risk Insurance (CPRI) to play an important and increasing role in supporting lenders in mitigating risk, overcoming concentration issues and improving capital adequacy. In Asia, we have seen a rise in demand for surety as a liquidity tool to replace bank guarantee and LC instruments.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. And in 2017, those investments were off-the-charts nuts. Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S.,

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. 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. Her name is Kristen Bitterly Michell.

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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. Here’s what that means for retailers, why physical retail is in such a world of hurt and where the silver lining might lie.

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Transcript: Ken Kencel

Barry Ritholtz

And what was fascinating about Drexel and kind of the diaspora, if you will, of that era was that we all basically went out looking to take that experience, particularly in high yield and kind of buyouts and financing, and do it at either banks or other investment banks. KENCEL: So — RITHOLTZ: Why are they investing in mid-market U.S.