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World’s Best SME Banks 2025: Regional Winners

Global Finance

million in pretax profits in 2023, and a presence in 20 markets on the continent and four global centers—empowering SMEs means fueling Africa’s economic development. Before the pandemic, DBS had relentlessly leveraged emerging technologies to help SMEs, especially micro and small enterprises, streamline services and manage credit risk.

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Transcript: Melissa Smith, co-Head of Commercial Banking at JPMorgan

Barry Ritholtz

And in my summer in between I worked for Mayor Daley in Chicago on economic development issues. Yes, we’re gonna kind of continue to see volatility with some of these, these surprises, like the deep sake example, but, but it, it hasn’t really changed our view, our very constructive view on, on the market going forward.

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China’s Baoshang Bank Is Taken Over By Regulators Over Credit Issues

PYMNTS

Baoshang Bank, based in Inner Mongolia, will be taken over by China’s banking and insurance regulator over critical credit risks, according to a report by Reuters. The China Construction Bank (CCB), based in Baotou, will handle the bank’s business operations. Baoshang’s outstanding loans totalled 156.5 billion yuan ($22.68

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The Great Credit Card Program Outsourcing Debate

PYMNTS

Among the biggest debates is how to construct and operate the best card program possible – a decision that served as the foundation for a new PYMNTS interview with Jim Geeslin, head of strategy for Elan Financial Services , an agent credit card issuer. Do FIs want to navigate card programs through that?”.

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The Coming Millennial FinTech Crisis

PYMNTS

But it’s the recently published groundbreaking research by Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Stanford, and several other of his academic colleagues that finally put a pin in the fact that the generation that every brand is desperately trying to woo is, by and large, broke and is unlikely to ever attain the earnings potential of their parents.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

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. It’s much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction. SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns.

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Trade Credit Insurance

Finvisage

The report further proceeds with Results and Findings column, confronting data on several key economic factors affecting TCI on a macro scale. Subsequently, the report touches upon the UK’s current economic environment and TCI’s recent market status. These figures suggest the high credit risk exposure of UK in a global perspective.