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The Velocity of Risk – What Bankers Need To Know

South State Correspondent

Banks that take too much risk fail, and banks that take too little risk produce returns below their cost of capital and either get acquired or driven out of business. One morning, President Trump tweeted his desire for an additional tax on all foreign-owned companies operating in the US. Consider the risk above.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

A few years ago, very few people would have guessed that tens of billions of dollars would be invested in fintech vendors and solutions annually – except it happened. 2021 fintech investments, merger activities, and overall focus were off the charts. Best Fintech Acquisition by a Bank. Fintech Acquiring Bank.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Stripe went on to raise a seed round from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, and PayPal founders Peter Thiel and Elon Musk in 2011.

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My Fantasy Banking Team

Jeff For Banks

Since his joining the Board, the bank has stabilized, returned to profitability, recaptured it's deferred tax asset, and NPAs/Assets have declined to less than 3%. Selection: Greg Garrabrants, BofI Holding, Inc, (NASDAQ: BOFI) Greg has been in charge of the Bank since 2007. Chan came as part of the recap, and rose to Chairman in 2014.

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My top five Decentralized Finance predictions for 2020

Lex Sokolin

If you read anything but this newsletter, you’ve got to read: Blockchain Capital’s 2019 Year in Review Messari Research Crypto Theses for 2020 DappRadar 2019 dapp Industry Review Decentralized Finance Overview So let’s narrow our entire lens to decentralized finance. It’s like watching Mint.com emerge in 2007. all Fintech unicorns?—?that

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Monitise to Emphasize API, On-Site Solutions in Strategy Shift

Fintech Labs Insights

This month, Monitise and Banco Santander announced their plan to launch a “fintech venture builder” program in the second half of 2015. Both companies have pledged up to 10 million pounds of capital to the project over the next two years. ” Monitise has had a busy first half of 2015.

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NatWest, RBS to Offer Clients Business Banking Solutions from FreeAgent

Fintech Labs Insights

The company’s platform – already used by 50,000 businesses – helps small businesses, entrepreneurs, and freelancers manage invoices, expenses, taxes, projects, and more. Founded in 2007 and based in Edinburgh, U.K., FreeAgent Mobile is available on both iOS and Android platforms.

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