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

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These factors signal rising credit risks and potentially more distressed exchanges and defaults in the coming months, the rating agency added. The majority of downgrades were in industries with high or moderate exposure to coronavirus disruption, such as auto, commodity related, property, retail and REIT," Di Chiara noted.

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Can Better, Digital Credit Help SMBs Thrive?

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Those smaller B2B operators “are not in the best position to be accepting and taking credit risks,” Sebastian Rymarz, chief business officer for Fundbox , told Karen Webster in a recent interview with PYMNTS. Tabs and Cash. It just hasn’t happened in B2B yet,” Rymarz said. But the opportunity is there for the taking. In the U.S.,

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APAC capital markets during the COVID-19 crisis

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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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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., Goldman Sachs reported on its Q1 earnings call that Marcus, since it launched, has originated $3 billion of new loans and taken in $9 billion of new retail deposits. billion in 2018 from $945 million in 2017 and will grow more than 80 percent year over year to reach $9.7

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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. And ultimately, to make a very long story short, I fell in love with derivatives. So derivatives were a part where I was very intimidated.

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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.