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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

South State Correspondent

Strategic Horizon and Capital As mentioned, the problem that bank’s often run into when it comes to strategic planning is their time horizon is too short. The fundamental problem is a bank’s implied average life of capital is long, some 18+ years, but their strategic horizon is too short – likely under three years.

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Searching for the Priceline of Fintech after Lending Market Meltdown Week

Bank Innovation

You could have bought Priceline stock below $10 in 2001. For many years you had little to show for it. From then until 2008, you had some appreciation, but not much. Then the stock shot up above $1,000 (as of writing it is $1,261). Yes that is 100x return from Read More.

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"Do Not Pick up Nickels in Front of the Steamroller!"

SWBC's LenderHub

It seems like every time a sudden and severe shock hits the financial markets, all the fancy hedge fund investment strategies that use monikers like, “Enhanced Return,” or “Alpha Plus” go from being perfectly fine to gone within a month.

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Billtrust’s First Institutional Investor Sells Stake

PYMNTS

A press release issued Monday (May 14) said Edison sold its stake in Billtrust to private equity firm W Capital Partners. He saw the opportunity in this market before the FinTech ecosystem declared enterprise-focused FinTech a ‘cool’ sector. “I look forward to many more years working in close partnership with the team at Edison.”

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Bain MD On New $1B Fund And Why Seed Rounds Are Sprouting           

PYMNTS

Bain Capital Ventures said Wednesday (November 14) that it has raised $1 billion in investment capital that will be geared toward targeting startup companies spanning seed rounds to growth-stage financing. Bain Capital Ventures traces its genesis back to 2001, and has invested more than $3.6 billion across 240 companies.

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B2B FinTechs Diversify Funding Strategies With M&A, IPOs

PYMNTS

Talk of a decelerating FinTech venture capital market continued to mount this week with reports that digital banking startup Aspiration is struggling to raise money. Venture Capital Funding. raised $10 million from SEB Bank and Seed Capital for its commercial card technology. Cardlay, based in the U.K.,

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Barclays Corporate Banking Chief Resigns

PYMNTS

According to reports, Winter has been at the bank since 2001, previously serving at Deutsche Bank. While at Deutsche Bank, Winter served as head of European debt capital markets.