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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

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. We knew there was tremendous hubris in the subprime market. 01 percent on my money market account when the Fed Funds rate rose to five, I was angry. What caused it?

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

In the world of asset management, the biggest players are now dedicated firms like Vanguard. Total assets under management (AUM) at the top asset managers now dwarfs total AUM at the top banks. The disruption of asset management. When Facebook went public in 2012, the stock fell 15% in its first few days on the market.

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House of Blockchain

Tomorrow's Transactions

I told the assembled throng ( from the STFC ) that I was there to lobby parliament to have THE BLOCKCHAIN accepted as a religion, like Scientology, and to have all associated tax breaks and other privileges. The first card was issued back in 2002 and by October 2006 there were a million cards in circulation.

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

CB Insights

In a deal that aimed to open the Chinese coal markets, US heavy-equipment behemoth Caterpillar paid $677M in 2012 to acquire ERA Mining Machinery Ltd. The Chinese coal market is one of the biggest in the world and this deal looked like easy money. a leading producer of hydraulic coal-mine roof supports in China. Google and Motorola.

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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. Market volatility. Management. The result of this type of plan was to make each manager at H. Don’t give your executives stock options as compensation. Stock ownership. Buy stock as an owner, not a speculator.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 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. Actually, the Bank had a one-time after tax litigation settlement (from a 2002-04 event) of $6.2