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Yahoo! Is! For! Sale!: Why Banks Should Care

Celent Banking

It was only in December when management shared the stunning news that Yahoo! The announcement in December came on the heels of a nearly 12-month project aimed at spinning its 15% interest (worth $30 billion) in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company, to its shareholders, a transaction that has been abandoned over tax concerns.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” To you, manage your interest rate risk. By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. Today, NPL/total loans is a manageable 0.94%, and the Bank ROA/ROE year-to-date is 1.22% and 11.61% respectively. Actually, the Bank had a one-time after tax litigation settlement (from a 2002-04 event) of $6.2 million on assets of $1.4

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. In the world of asset management, the biggest players are now dedicated firms like Vanguard. The disruption of asset management. Table of contents.

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24 Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letters To Shareholders

CB Insights

He mocks himself for making mistakes, and sings the praises of Berkshire’s army of CEO-managers. Management. Each manager, in other words, would receive a portion of the company’s profits less the amount that they spent, in terms of capital, to generate those profits — a reminder to all that capital was not without costs.

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The 225 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Aug 2021)

Fintech Labs Insights

168t ($1.3B): USA crypto tax software provider TaxBit. Scalable Capital. Personal Capital. . #108t ($2.5B): Personal finance app Uala based in Argentina. 126t ($2B): American RE investing specialist Divvy Homes. 126t ($2B): Nigerian payment company Opay. 180t ($1.1B): Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX. June 2021 round. Netherlands.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

in losses, declare bankruptcy at Westinghouse, and eventually to sell the Westinghouse unit to Brookfield Asset Management. In the early 2000s, venerable retailers Sears and Kmart began losing ground to Walmart and Target, with Kmart even filing for Chapter 11 in 2002. Toshiba was forced to write off $6.3B eBay and Skype. Price: $9.1B.

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