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China B2B FinTech Nabs The Venture Capital Spotlight

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Yet, small business (SMB) banking wasn’t the only highlight of this week’s B2B venture capital roundup, with the two largest fundraises showcasing China’s rising B2B FinTech ecosystem in areas like expense management and invoicing. As part of its rebrand , blockchain payments firm BitPesa is now AZA Group.

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Solving the Three-Body Problem in Banking

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A bank can model risk-adjusted profitability as it pertains to a change in price. Still, it can’t accurately calculate risk-adjusted profitability as it just took on a set of customers with higher but unknown interest rates, liquidity, and brand sensitivities. Cost cutting at banks often increases risk in unseen ways.

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The Current Banking Crisis – 10 Not So Apparent Lessons

South State Correspondent

It turns out that confidence is more valuable than capital. While we wrote about the root cause of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) HERE , the lessons of the current banking crisis go beyond interest rate risk management. The ratio would provide a bank’s current core capital position to risk-adjusted assets.

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Zurich Insurance Partnership Tackles Supply Chain Risk

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Insurance firm Zurich is introducing a new supply chain risk management service in conjunction with riskmethods, reports in Global Banking and Finance Review said Thursday (March 7). Risk management is about identifying, assessing and controlling risk from an operational level and making decisions to balance the benefits,” she said.

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Grab Launches GrabInvest

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The move will let Grab begin to offer retail wealth management services to users, driver and merchant partners via the Grab app, according to an emailed press release. The move will re-brand Bento as GrabInvest from here on out as products are launched via the Grab app in 2020 and beyond.

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The Black Friday Mobile App Blacklist

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Digital risk management company RiskIQ released its Black Friday eCommerce Blacklist , which identified that one in 10 Black Friday-specific apps out of the 5,315 total that can be found searching “Black Friday” in global app stores is malicious. Threat actors have focused on the top five leading brands in eCommerce.

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Renaud Laplanche’s Second Act

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And it seems Upgrade is getting ready to offer its brand of upgrade to the market in the increasingly near future. We’re ramping up volume over time as we learn more and get more comfortable with risk management, operating efficiency and marketing efficiency.”.

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