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FinTechs, AI And The Rise Of SMB Credit In Brazil

PYMNTS

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. In essence, nobli functions as a Credit-as-a-Service provider.

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Futureproofing treasury and payments through digitisation

Future CFO

Well-oiled and prepared businesses survived (and some thrived), with many companies taking defensive financial positions and granular control over liquidity. As liquidity became a significant concern for organizations, the Treasury Department was asked to monitor inflows and outflows more closely. Changing the Treasury-IT conversation.

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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?

CFO News Room

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. But since you mentioned getting return on the risk you take, how do you think about duration when the three-month Treasury is more or less the same or better than the 10-year? You know, the leverage in the system builds. And I think people underestimate U.S. RIEDER: Yeah.

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Transcript: Ed Hyman

Barry Ritholtz

00:31:28 [Speaker Changed] But you had no idea they were running a hundred to one leverage? But anyway, you know, that, you know, darn near blew up the global financial system right outta 00:31:40 [Speaker Changed] The blue an an early warning shot, right? 00:31:31 [Speaker Changed] No, apparently they didn’t either.