PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2018

It’s not enough to be very good at one element of the business – firms have to be good at operational functions, risk management, capital management, compliance and product to keep from being dragged down by bad loan performance. And for a very good reason: SMB lending is a tough business to be in, Lifshitz told Webster.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2018

It’s not enough to be very good at one element of the business – firms have to be good at operational functions, risk management, capital management, compliance and productto keep from being dragged down by bad loan performance. And for a very good reason: SMB lending is a tough business to be in, Lifshitz told Webster.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have officially ended a two-year investigation of LendingClub, its subsidiary LC Advisors (LCA), its founder and former CEO Renaud Laplanche and its former CFO Carrie Dolan. On Friday (Sept.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 5, 2024

So you come outta college, you go to Pricewaterhouse Cooper and then Koch Industries where you’re focusing on convertible securities, merger, arb, and, and special situations. 00:06:01 [Speaker Changed] So you end up as head of global credit and senior managing director at Citadel Investment Group, was that right?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

Greg Davis, Chief Investment Officer at a little shop called the Vanguard Group, which manages $8 trillion. Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. He’s only responsible for $7.3 I think you will also.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments led the investment, Nav said, while CreditEase FinTech Investment Fund, Point72 Ventures and Clocktower Technology Ventures also participated. China Creation Ventures led the investment, while Lingfen Capital and angel investors YunQi Partners also participated, the company said.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I found this to be just a masterclass in everything you need to know about distressed credit investing, private credit, the role of the economy, the fed interest rates, inflation, bottoms up, credit picking, and how to manage a firm and a fund in light of just massive dislocations in your space, as well as the overall economy.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Anything else?

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

With no further ado, my conversation with Ken Kencel of Churchill Asset Management. They really weren’t in the investment banking business, and they looked at the opportunity there and said, gee, we should really have a high yield business and a financing business. RITHOLTZ: — credit? private — KENCEL: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

His name is Robert Koenigsberger, and he has a fascinating career in emerging market, opportunistic and distressed debt investing. He started at a small boutique before going to Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers, and ultimately launching his own shop called Gramercy Funds Management. I always wanted to do something entrepreneurial.

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