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Reframing financial uncertainty with data and AI

Future CFO

Businesses face a tremendous number of uncertainties. It is a tall ask, considering that today’s macroeconomic risks can come from unexpected directions. Everyone else in the company is trying to meet their KPIs, grab whatever they can find on the table, and pretty much have zero already got a risk, right?

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A Closer Look At Ripple’s Money-Saving Claims

PYMNTS

Among one of the loudest of these blockchain champions is Ripple, a FinTech firm that has recently secured millions of dollars in investments and strategic partnerships aimed at promoting blockchain technology’s use for traditionally friction-rich areas, like cross-border payments and real-time payments.

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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. Commercial real estate (CRE) loans, however, continued to strengthen.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I did an internship in the summer at Citibank Securities in fixed income sales and trading. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. And you’re right.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

So the idea being, you know, that we could analyze, dissect companies anywhere from, you know, senior securities, secured down to distressed. And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RITHOLTZ: Is that how you ran R3? Was that the basis?

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. I don’t remember the number. SEIDES: No, you’re right about the securities. 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. Less, 20, 30%?

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Transcript: Armen Panossian

Barry Ritholtz

Ritholtz ] 00:09:37 I recall reading, and I know you can’t say this, but I recall reading that fund return something like 19% a year, some just astounding number. 00:19:38 [Speaker Changed] And one of the areas where the banks were very active with those reserves was buying AA securities and the widest spread AAA securities were CLOs.