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FinTechs, AI And The Rise Of SMB Credit In Brazil

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That’s one of the main messages of a new PYMNTS interview with Regio Martins, CEO and founder of nobli , which aims to enable businesses to offer more forms of collateral when seeking loans — the company’s personal loans are secured by financial collateral. We expand that to include almost every type of financial asset.”.

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OCC Defines Top Threats To Banks This Season

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As cyberattackers deploy more aggressive tactics, corporate banking firms have to respond with heightened cybersecurity measures to ensure confidence in the nation’s financial system, the OCC warned.

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You’re Living in a World Wrought by Central Banks. Notice Anything Wrong?

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To understand it, you have to go back to before the crisis was apparent to everyone — both during the Great Depression and during the 2008 financial crisis. Back before it became apparent that a financial crisis was happening, there was an immense amount of leverage in the banking system over which Bernanke had a responsibility to regulate.

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

Barry Ritholtz

I mean, I didn’t want to blow my own trumpet up too much because most of the positions were in place, the quality funds, which more defensive and less leveraged, and low allocation to — a relatively low allocation to equities, and then the hedge funds sort of long/short positions that benefited in the financial crisis.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. So the idea being, you know, that we could analyze, dissect companies anywhere from, you know, senior securities, secured down to distressed. So I think there are 4,800 equities, different securities globally. RITHOLTZ: Is that how you ran R3? Was that the basis?

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Testing Monetary, Fiscal Policy As ‘This Time Is Different’

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Whenever a seismic event comes on the scene, and threatens to swamp the financial system and the U.S. That sentiment was echoed, at least in part, Wednesday (March 18) in an op-ed that ran in the Financial Times , penned by Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen, former heads of the U.S. This time is different, as the saying goes.