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EU Probe: Danske Ignored Russia’s Money Laundering Warnings

PYMNTS

The warnings were sent in 2007 and 2013, and the information stems from the outcome of an investigation by the European Banking Authority (EBA). According to the document, Danske Bank was warned by the Russian bank after it acquired Finland’s Sampo Bank and its Estonian business in February 2007.

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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. Third, the regulators need adequate financial resources. My lesson learned to the regulators, read your past lessons learned. What caused it?

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A Decline in Personal Savings

TrustBank

The BEA calculates the personal saving rate by subtracting taxes from personal income to arrive at “disposable personal income” and then subtracts personal outlays. By the 1990’s, improvements in technology and further changes to securities regulations made it easier for corporate customers to access financial markets directly.

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Consumer Lending: Should Banks Do It?

Jeff For Banks

Mortgage bankers and brokers own a significant share of market (although less than prior to the 2007-08 financial crisis). Which we already do via buying mortgage back securities and using loan brokers in metro areas. Real estate secured. Regulation has driven up costs and made us gun shy. Hard collateral.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

I believe that we are in this era of weak growth, now eight years old, for the long haul unless changes are made to regulation and we stop adding debt at break-neck speed. trillion in Agency mortgage backed securities. million at the end of December, 2007, before the crisis hit in 2008. I do not take this lightly.

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My top five Decentralized Finance predictions for 2020

Lex Sokolin

Other things like Compound are essentially a securities lending marketplace?—?you This financial commitment also performs the function of securing the historic accuracy of the data on the chain itself, like electricity-consuming mining does in Bitcoin. It’s like watching Mint.com emerge in 2007. Who is your counterparty?

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Guest Post: Second Quarter Economic Update

Jeff For Banks

Government and regulators are contributing to the pessimism with financial reform legislation that does not even address some of the causes of the crisis, new FASB proposals to impose harmful mark-to-market accounting on bank loans, and the looming expiration of the Bush tax cuts in 2011. Bummers all.

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