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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. percent in 2004, a decline of 1.1 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. My lesson learned to the regulators, read your past lessons learned. This crisis hatched the more sophisticated ALCO tools we have today.

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Avalara Raises $96 Million in New Funding

Fintech Labs Insights

Avalara , an innovator in automated tax management for small businesses, raised $96 million in new funding from a group of investors including Warburg Pincus, Sageview Capital, and Technology Crossover Ventures this week. Avalara calculates $100 million in taxes daily, and remitted $14.4 billion in taxes in 2015.

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Who does AML hurt?

Tomorrow's Transactions

The topic of AML came up time and time again in the discussions around Money2020 in Las Vegas, whether in the sessions about cryptocurrency or remittances or innovation or anything else. And the way that AML regulation is structured and “managed” means that the market is being undermined. trillions (2.7%of of the world GDP).

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

CB Insights

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014. Price: $7.9B. Price: $2.6B.

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East Africa M&A Moment: June 2015

Bankelele

billionn — 23% lower than the same period 12 months ago and the lowest level recorded since 2004, according to data from Dealogic. Kenyan innovation, Wezatele, was acquired for $1.7 The value of African deals so far this year stands at $9.2 Kenya’s competition authority approved the acquisition of 61.2% Hotels/Tourism. -

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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. Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.” ( 2004 ). Management. The result of this type of plan was to make each manager at H. Never use your own stock to make acquisitions.

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