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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

Second, this can be accomplished only if the industry does not have too much influence over its regulators and if the regulators have the ability to hire, train, and retain qualified staff. Third, the regulators need adequate financial resources. My lesson learned to the regulators, read your past lessons learned.

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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. According to a KPMG survey, the cost of compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations grew “beyond expectations” for banks last year.

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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: $164B.

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Quantifying the full impact of country-specific policies on trade flows

BankUnderground

A byproduct of the analysis is that we obtain an estimate of the trade elasticity for services, which is typically challenging to estimate given that services trade is not taxed in the same way that goods trade is via tariffs. Methodology in a nutshell. increase in international (versus domestic) trade.

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24 Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letters To Shareholders

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Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.” ( 2004 ). In the early 70s, See’s was able to produce about $2M a year (after tax) on just $8M in net tangible assets (including all accounts receivable.) A few years later, however, See’s was earning 65% of its net tangible assets after tax.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

CB Insights

The lawsuit hinged on Julep’s promotional free Welcome Box of Julep products, available for just the cost of taxes and shipping. The startup raised over $40M from a range of venture capital funds, including the Axiata Digital Innovation Fund and PLC Ventures. Founded: 2004. Declared Bankruptcy: 2015. Total Funding: $22M.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

PYMNTS

And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are. And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness. They examined anonymized tax data starting in the 1940s until 2015.

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