Bussman Advisory

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

There should be no doubt by now that initial coin offerings – token sale fundraisings by startups – have established themselves as new and very compelling forms of capital raising. Startups, primarily in the blockchain world, raised $4.6bn in various forms of token launches in 2017, a quantum leap from the $0.2

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Belgium’s capital city is becoming known for more than just housing major international institutions like EU Parliament, EU Commission and NATO. The World Bank ranked Belgium as the seventeenth best country in which to do business in 2017, out of 190 regions. The region is also home to an active and fast-growing startup scene.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Although hiring slowed in September, small businesses continue to remain optimistic and have even reported some significant benefits resulting from late-2017’s tax reform. 54 percent of SMBs say the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act positively impacted their businesses , new research from the National Federation of Independent Businesses said.

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BankBazaar

JUNE 18, 2020

If your tax slab is 30%, your FD returns will be taxed to that extent, unless you’re a senior citizen eligible for certain income tax bene?ts after income tax and that is your e?ective ective post-tax return (refer to Table 2). higher per annum post tax than ?xed ts on this front.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2018

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reportedly opened an investigation into the accounting practices of digital industrial company General Electric (GE). GE released its Q4 2017 earnings data earlier this week, revealing a one-time $6.2 billion tax charge related to the nation’s recent tax reform.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Management also stated that the CLUB Certificate Program — defined as whole loan transactions structured as tradable pass-through securities — is nearing the $1 billion mark, after having been launched less than a year ago, in December of 2017. CEO Sanborn stated that that engagement with the Federal Trade Commission remains ongoing.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

In addition, corporate clients will be able to apply for working capital loans and make vendor and salary payments. In Africa, the biggest private bank in Kenya, CBA, has cemented a partnership with a FinTech there, Ennovative Capital, a Kenyan firm that licenses software to boost payments speeds.

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BankBazaar

JANUARY 31, 2021

The National Sample Survey Office conducted a survey between 2017 and 2018, sampling 113,823 urban and rural households. However, in case of serious tax-evasion cases (Rs. Affordable housing projects to get a tax holiday for one year. Good development since this is a long-term ask of the industry to bring in capital and growth.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2019

According to a report in Reuters , citing Finnish broadcaster Yle, which had access to leaked documents, the money came from companies registered in countries with tax havens, including the British Virgin Islands, Panama and Belize. The investment firm rates Nordea at underperform.

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BankUnderground

JUNE 11, 2021

How IFRS 9 affects the level of equity capital. As Figure 2 demonstrates, IFRS 9 increases the level of credit loss provisions, reducing after-tax profit and retained earnings (the main component of equity capital resources) of a bank. Table A presents some details about the impact of IFRS 9 on capital ratios of European banks.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 15, 2016

This trend of focusing on commercial lending for portfolio growth seems to be gaining, as reflected in a 2016 poll by Sageworks where 42 percent of respondents said they would be focused on CRE lending for portfolio growth in 2017, while 39 percent said C&I would be the core of their growth strategy. Small businesses in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

2017 was a transformative year for OnDeck,” CEO Noah Breslow noted at the beginning of his remarks. He reminded investors that the firm, which had a very rocky start in 2017, managed to end the year with its effective interest yield up by over 200 basis points and its net charge-off rate down by over 100 basis points.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

There is another market segment, however, that similarly struggles to secure this Goldilocks effect, with products that aren’t too small and aren’t too large: the middle market. ” What is clear, though, is that demand for T&E technologies is on the rise.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. Actually, the Bank had a one-time after tax litigation settlement (from a 2002-04 event) of $6.2 A princely some to a Bank with $107 million of capital at the time. Please do not claim to invest in any security based on what you read here.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

At September 30, 2017 there were 5,737, a 16% decline. There were 166 mergers, and four new charters in the first three quarters of 2017. And capital ratios have held steady and strong. In fact, if you listen to some institutional investors, the industry is over-capitalized. In 2017, NIMs ranged from a high of 3.8%

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

Treasurer Sarah Getzlaff, CEO, Security First Bank of North Dakota, New Salem, N.D. We must also keep our focus on protecting the 2017 tax cuts and, as always, monitoring and confronting credit union overreach. For instance, ICBA is calling for congressional hearings on the credit union tax exemption. Covington, Ind.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

On November 14th 2017, the price of bitcoin was a little over $6,500 — a bit more than it is today at $6,300. Even though Bitcoin’s mid-November price this year is similar to last year’s, it is pretty unlikely that 2018 will see a repeat of what happened in 2017 as November and then December wore on.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

GW or around 30 terawatt hours per year on average — at least, that was the estimate for 2017. At the end of 2017, a handful of Chinese provinces and the country of Georgia were home to 75 percent of the world’s bitcoin mining, while only 3 percent was happening in the U.S. The number is widely expected to continue to rise. in 2018.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

More big names strengthened their blockchain ties this week, too, including IBM and the venture capital arm of Comcast, Comcast Ventures, which announced their support for a new blockchain accelerator, MState. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reportedly blocked trading for UBI Blockchain stock, based in Hong Kong.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Funding Trends: Since 2017, these 250 private companies have raised $31.85B across 373 deals. This year’s cohort has already seen more mega-rounds in 2018 YTD than 2017’s Fintech 250 list in all of 2017, with 23 mega-rounds investments. Rowe Price, Temasek Holdings, and Primavera Capital Group, among others.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2017

49% of financial professionals say earnings uncertainty is a greater threat today than it was three years ago, according to the 2017 Association for Financial Professionals Risk Survey. Those challenges surpassed the 15 percent that said access to capital is their biggest challenge. s current political system.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The 2017 report , released Monday (Oct. Emerging Asia is seeing ongoing traction for payment cards in the corporate sphere as companies turn to commercial cards for more secure supplier payments. 9), found non-cash transactions are growing at a healthy rate — with volumes increasing 11.2

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. Before we begin and for comparison purposes, here are last year's top five , as measured in December 2017: #1. This is clearly a turnaround situation, as the bank lost over $12 million in 2010, over 20% of its capital (ouch). All of 2017 was $29 million.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. And in 2017, those investments were off-the-charts nuts.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

At this time last year, BTC traded at $460, meaning the digital currency’s value has grown over 230 percent within the period—with just over half of that growth coming in the first five months of 2017. With growth like this, the “ outrageous prediction ” that bitcoin could hit $2,000 in 2017 doesn’t seem quite so out there. (To

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

You might, when you find out that they were the first to file for a bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Perhaps not a scalable option in terms of security, but some bitcoin aficionados are finding ways to store coins offline, outside of a central exchange. And do you care?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

Platform operators and merchants must conduct due diligence related to everything from intellectual property and tariffs to tax laws and FX rates. And taking effect with the dawn of 2019, the Chinese government has put in place new initiatives tied to cross-border trade flows done by digital means into several markets. and elsewhere.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Between 2017 and 2060, it’s expected that approximately $50T will change hands in what will be the largest aggregated transfer of wealth in history. In April, it first acquired payments platform Galileo for $1.2B, and then bought Hong Kong-based brokerage 8 Securities for an undisclosed amount.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 31, 2019

Source: DeBanked ) Square Capital lent about $1.6 billion to small businesses in 2018, up nearly 36% over 2017 and double that of 2016. Institutions are “spreading” financial statements for electronically provided tax returns or financial statements. While online lenders Kabbage and OnDeck lent $2 billion and $2.5

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 23, 2017

FFKT Farmers Capital Bank Corporation (the “Company”), Frankfort, KY FFKT is a financial holding company which had four wholly-owned bank subsidiaries at year-end 2016. Some information will be based on competitive actions in the marketplace. Much of it, however, can be gleaned from publicly available information. It’s in their Annual Report.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

PepsiCo turned some heads with its quarterly earnings call announcement that it would take some of its tax reform windfall and reinvest it in improving the firm’s eCommerce efforts. According to PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Nooyi, that decision is entirely bottom line-driven – eCommerce was good for Pepsi last year.

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 5, 2019

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Two years back, Equifax lost 140 million identities, again from poor security practices. Capital One’s estimate for $150 million on $28 billion seems off, to say the least.

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 5, 2019

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Two years back, Equifax lost 140 million identities, again from poor security practices. Capital One’s estimate for $150 million on $28 billion seems off, to say the least.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. After a comprehensive investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Holmes was banned from the laboratory testing industry for two years and was ultimately charged with wire fraud by the Department of Justice in summer 2018. Bouxtie’s broken promises.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

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. These APIs handle everything from acceptance and processing to settlement and reconciliation, while ensuring compliance and security.

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CB Insights

MAY 21, 2018

While some worry that artificial intelligence (AI) will someday lead to robots rampaging their way to world domination, AI-related startups have not stopped attracting intense interest from talent and capital. in investment. Ultimately, every company will need to make its own decision around how best to reward and hire for critical skills.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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. By 2017, it had much of this codified in its own internal software. STAYING PRIVATE.

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