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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. So, to summarize my lessons learned from every crisis in the last 35 years: - Manage your interest rate risk; - Meteoric rises are often accompanied by gravitational falls.

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Good News from Gen Next

Independent Banker

That’s Generation Z, those born between 1995 and 2002. Social media—with privacy, please. You probably guessed that these kids were on social media, but the way they’re participating is somewhat different from millennials, with more sharing and, paradoxically, a greater interest in privacy.

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Good News from Gen Next

Independent Banker

That’s Generation Z, those born between 1995 and 2002. Social media—with privacy, please. You probably guessed that these kids were on social media, but the way they’re participating is somewhat different from millennials, with more sharing and, paradoxically, a greater interest in privacy.

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Big Brain on Campus: Dr. Scott Zoldi Talks Responsible AI at MIT, UCSD and Duke

FICO

That conversation was interesting, exposing the students to a company that’s right in their backyard [the former HNC Software, where Scott worked prior to its acquisition by FICO in 2002. — Follow Scott on Social Media. HNC Software was, in fact, co-founded by a UCSD professor, Robert Hecht-Nielsen. by FICO.

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

CB Insights

in losses, declare bankruptcy at Westinghouse, and eventually to sell the Westinghouse unit to Brookfield Asset Management. That skyrocketing popularity is likely what made Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp think it was worth spending $580M to acquire the social network. 32) in August of 2002. Toshiba was forced to write off $6.3B

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The Real Hunger Games: A Battle Royale In The Grocery Aisles

PYMNTS

Reputation: Trader Joe’s has no loyalty program, offers no coupons, does not advertise on television and has a rather limited social media presence – it relies on the extremely positive word of mouth it receives. Fatal Flaws: New management, new approach: A&P was the largest retailer in the U.S. And that draw is strong.

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Facebook’s Content Conundrum

PYMNTS

Over the last several weeks, the social network has endured back-to-back leaks of internal documents relating to its content screening processes and ad targeting practices that have managed to put the firm back on its heels seesawing between explaining itself and apologizing. Facebook’s critics — like Jennifer King, a Ph.D.