PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

John Cronin, an analyst at Goodbody’s, told the Financial Times that by using banking partnerships, Amazon could “significantly extend” its SMB lending platform, “without any associated credit risk of regulatory obligations (in the context of capital and liquidity and so forth).”. Never underestimate the value of logistics.

eCommerce 52

eCommerce Benchmarking Restructuring Credit Risk 52

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 5, 2024

What happened over the last year and a half or so is rates went up and valuations went down. But in our experience, we’re seeing them efficiently transfer the credit risk of assets, but keeping the customer relationship, it’s a very important distinction. This is their hedge to credit risk.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Credit Risk Investments Banking 57

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But at the end of the day, the companies we invest in are bottoms up or based on bottoms up credit analytics that we have the conviction and we’ll return par plus accrued through through a cycle. And if they don’t, we’re happy to own them at the valuation that we are creating that company act.

Investments 52

Investments Economics Banking Construction 52

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It’s just a fascinating conversation about looking at the world from both bottoms up and top-down, as well as thinking about what valuations are like, how likely are macro events, the impact you’re getting not just the return on capital, but as famously said in fixed income, a return of your capital. KOENIGSBERGER: Yeah.

Restructuring 61

Restructuring Investments Marketing Banking 61