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AltFin Shines As Investor Interest In B2B FinTech Continues

PYMNTS

Toward the start of 2018, analysts began to highlight the potential for venture capital (VC) to embrace the B2B business model. and India drove a surge in FinTech venture capital funding in 2017, and Accenture Financial Services Senior Managing Director Julian Skan pointed to the B2B business model as a significant presence in this trend.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2018 Edition

Jeff For Banks

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. And to them I say.

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

Celent Banking

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. After a dalliance with Microsoft’s Bing in 2010, Yahoo!

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Market opportunity. Stripe is ramping up its private market investments. Expansion into emerging markets. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Focus on developers.

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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.” We knew there was tremendous hubris in the subprime market. My lesson learned to the regulators, read your past lessons learned. To you, manage your interest rate risk.

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Guest Post: 3rd Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

What are the Markets Thinking? Bond markets have been the big winners in the third quarter. Stock markets performed exceptionally well in September after a summer selloff that took the Dow below the 10,000 level again. Still, with stock markets having done so well during September, I would have expected rates to rise somewhat.

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AltFin’s Bumpy Ride Into An Uncertain 2019

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There were plenty of tailwinds that pushed the segment forward: A strong economy, healthy consumer interest in credit and advances in credit scoring technology were all instrumental in pushing more consumers into the market, particularly in the first half of the year. According to the Federal Reserve , U.S. That amounts to $13.2