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Should You Be Marking Loans To Market?

South State Correspondent

The AOCI is an accounting adjustment meant to reflect the economic value of assets and is the process of “marking loans to market.” In this article, we explore what signals marking your loans to market might send. It was back in August of 2007 when credit spreads started to widen. Capital got scarce.

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IMF: Banks Could Encounter Market, Credit Losses As COVID-19 Surfaces ‘Cracks’ In The Financial System

PYMNTS

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) cautioned that COVID-19 has made “cracks” in the worldwide financial system known and “will likely” have financial institutions encounter market and credit losses that will put their reserves to the test. out of work and may bring about the most severe economic downturn as of the Great Depression.

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Apple Surpasses $1 Trillion In Market Cap

PYMNTS

to have a market capitalization of more than $1 trillion, hitting that milestone earlier on Thursday (Aug. In early-morning trading on Thursday, Apple hit the $1 trillion in market cap when shares passed $207.05. Apple may not stay at the $1 trillion mark for long, as the stock market and the stock itself has been volatile.

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Mosquito State review – a torrid, original tone poem to late capitalism

TheGuardian

Swarms of bloodsucking insects mirror the volatility of the markets in this thrilling drama of financial crisis This highly original, visually torrid take on Wall Street and last decade’s global financial crisis celebrates the true masters of the universe: mosquitoes. Continue reading.

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The European banking system is flat-lining

Chris Skinner

By 2007, bank assets in many developed countries had reached in excess of 100 per cent of gross domestic product (“GDP”). In 2007, bank assets in the US were around 78 per cent of GDP. In the US, at its peak, the finance industry generated 40 per cent of corporate profits and represented 30 per cent of the market value of stocks.

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A fistful of dollars: transmission of global funding shocks to emerging markets

BankUnderground

Emerging markets (EMs) have become more exposed to the global financial cycle in recent years. In a recent paper , we propose the use of money market rates to measure transmission of global funding shocks to EMs. Money markets have been shown to play an important role in transmission of global funding conditions.

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What’s Changed in the 10 Years Since Quant Quake? Not Much.

Bank Innovation

Ten years ago today, in the months leading to the start of the global recession, the ‘Quant Quake’ of August 10, 2007 shook Wall Street. But what’s changed since the Quant Crash of 2007? Have we found ways to protect the market from unexpected and extreme downturns driven, at least in part, by quants?

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