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The Velocity of Risk – What Bankers Need To Know

South State Correspondent

In this age of social media, global interconnectedness, and market volatility, banks can be one tweet torrent away from a lightning-fast onset of risk. One morning, President Trump tweeted his desire for an additional tax on all foreign-owned companies operating in the US. Some risks occur slowly; others strike quickly and hard.

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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

More recently and by comparison, the mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis took down more than 500 banks between 2007 and 2014, with total assets of nearly $959 billion. The old borrow short, lend long strategy. Although community banks did not lend to sub-prime borrowers in any meaningful way, did we participate?

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Zopa Partners with Equifax, Boosting its Risk Profiling Capabilities

Fintech Labs Insights

” For all the innovative methods for risk profiling – from Big Data to Social Media – the information available from credit reference agencies like Equifax remains as critical for online lenders as it is for offline lenders. A few metrics from Zopa: Over £1 billion lent to U.K. More than 50,000 active lenders.

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

CB Insights

The housing bubble bursting that same year had the opposite effect and various penalties and real estate losses relating to Countrywide’s lending practices ended up costing BofA about $40B, all told. Date: May 18, 2007. in May of 2007 to Google’s $3.1B ” 11. Microsoft and aQuantive. Price: $6.3B. Date: June 1998.

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Finovate Fall 2016 Live Blog – Day 1

William Mills

Built a workflow for the bank so the bank can approve payment and see all compliance and tax information. Founded: May 2007. In real time the tax man received their payment and the waiter has received their tip. Command center for small business lending. This triggers activity and lending platform.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

Zynga made social gaming history with a $7B IPO and generated huge returns for early investors like USV by building on top of existing social networks. Lending Club made changes to its business model that created new opportunities for growth. Lending Club. In 2007, Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell seeded The Point with $1M.

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