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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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Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency found that underwriting standards have eased thanks to an increased appetite for credit risk, increased competition and an overall perception of improved economic circumstances. Cyber threats are increasing in speed and sophistication,” the OCC stated.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S., But its positioning of the blockchain as one of its critical strategic pillars emphasizes a bigger and more important point: The hype is only as good as the numbers it can deliver. billion by 2021. billion growing to $120.7 billion in 2018 growing to $1.1 trillion in 2021.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

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. I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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?