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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update - First Quarter 2024

Jeff For Banks

In the markets, we watched helplessly as real GDP plummeted -5% in 1Q20 and -31% in 2Q20 before rebounding by +33% in 3Q20. I’ve previously theorized that China would try to reclaim its global market share lost during the pandemic by flooding the markets with cheaper goods. This development could give us good news on inflation.

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Mobile Payments On Smartphones Soar In Japan

PYMNTS

Making mobile payments with a smartphone in Japan is more popular than ever, according to eMarketer, a New York-based market research company. Liu noted COVID-19 has fueled the push towards cashless payments as consumers avoid the use of cash and plastic cards.

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Guest Post: 2nd Quarter 2022 Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Financial Markets & Economic Update -Fourth Quarter 2022 What a year 2022 has been! We’ve seen tremendous market declines in both stocks and bonds, volatility, and a Federal Reserve who is raising interest rates at a breathtaking pace. Housing markets have suffered, with mortgage rates climbing up to 7.00%. in September.

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What #Banking Trend Will Have the Greatest Impact on Your Bank?

Jeff For Banks

And then what happened in 2004-06 happened again. The Fed has paused for nearly a year now, and it was our experience in 2006-07 that bank cost of funds continued to increase as the market closed the delta between what someone could earn in a money market mutual fund and a bank account. Cost of funds is leveling off now.

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BEC Scam Storms The Sports Field (Literally)

PYMNTS

Anecdotal evidence pf questionable spend includes examples spanning invoices for IT equipment five times the market price, payments for expired contracts and invoices from debarred suppliers (contractors that the government will no longer work with). In Canada – and in the US, too.

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A Decline in Personal Savings

TrustBank

By the 1990’s, improvements in technology and further changes to securities regulations made it easier for corporate customers to access financial markets directly. This forced banks to renew their focus on middle market commercial banking and consumers. From 1990-2004, US home ownership rose 7.45% to 69.2% from 1965-1990.

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EMV after 10 years: What have we learned?

NCR

The arrival of chip and PIN cards was one of the biggest changes to consumer payments in a generation. Card spend up. New figures from the UK Cards Association show that the last ten years have seen a massive rise in consumers using electronic payments. But was EMV the cause of this rise in card spending?

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