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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. A Short History of Asset Marks.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update - First Quarter 2024

Jeff For Banks

In the markets, we watched helplessly as real GDP plummeted -5% in 1Q20 and -31% in 2Q20 before rebounding by +33% in 3Q20. I’ve previously theorized that China would try to reclaim its global market share lost during the pandemic by flooding the markets with cheaper goods. This development could give us good news on inflation.

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SAP Scales ERP Tech For The Mid-Market

PYMNTS

Enterprise software firm SAP is enhancing its SAP Business ByDesign solution to support growing middle-market companies. The solution is designed to provide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions to middle-market firms that are too small for a full-scale ERP system.

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Preparing For the 7 Waves From The Fed Hike

South State Correspondent

This decision coincided with rate hikes by the Swiss National Bank, its first since 2007, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank announced at an emergency meeting that they would raise interest rates next month and again in September. The market, however, expects a higher year-end Fed Funds rate at 3.65%. Conclusion.

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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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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. And with the success of quant strategies, one should have, or at least could have, expected a wide array of copy cat managers would come along trying to cash in. Here’s why.

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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.