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Why Banks Merge: Listen to the Sellers

Jeff For Banks

September 2004, driving from a meeting in New York, on the grossly miss-titled Cross Bronx Expressway, Nathan Stovall, a reporter from SNL Financial gave me a call. Read: You have to make lots and lots of little loans when you only have $25 million in capital. “I The question: What was up with an upstate New York bank? Our combination.

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Sizzle/Fizzle: AI Soars, Toys R Us Sinks And Start-Ups Struggle

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The stores will still stay open, but amid same store sales declines of more than four percent year over year, price matching with Amazon and revamping its online ops will likely be a tough row to hoe (recall that the company ended an exclusive arrangement to be Amazon’s toy vendor of choice back in 2004). Fizzle Of The Week: Startups.

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Guest Post: Fourth Quarter and Year End Economic Commentary by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Its stock markets are said to have led the world markets plunge, with clumsy attempts by their regulators’ circuit breakers to stem declines actually making them worse. Between February and November, 2015, foreign capital was pulled out of the country to the tune of $843 billion. First and foremost, China is at it again.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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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. This regulation reduced trading profits and created a need to cut costs, spurring investment banks to spin off unprofitable divisions or eliminate them entirely.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

CB Insights

An RBC Capital Markets report put the average annual sales of an Amazon Go location at about $1.5M. The regions involved in the initial pilot included Colombia, Chile, Hong Kong, Kenya, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Peru, Taiwan, and Thailand. As many as 3,000 Amazon Go locations could open by 2021, according to Bloomberg.

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Mortgage Tech 101: What It Is & Why It’s Taking Off Now

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Banks have receded from mortgage lending for a host of reasons, principally because the cost of complying with strict regulation from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on loan qualification and capital requirements has made the business more expensive. This helped navigate fragmented regional regulations.

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Retail’s Small Business Crisis

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The percentage of sales lost by those physical store franchises can be seen not only in the pretty charts and graphs that we produce and share on a regular basis but the ongoing drumbeat of the national and regional store closings for those brands that can no longer keep up. And just like every other industry, there’s concentration.

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