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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. Between 1980 and 1995, more than 2,900 banks and thrifts with collective assets of more than $2.2 trillion failed. What caused it?

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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

Date: May 18, 2007. in May of 2007 to Google’s $3.1B That skyrocketing popularity is likely what made Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp think it was worth spending $580M to acquire the social network. And in the short-term, that would have looked like a good deal, as the social media site hit its peak in 2007 at a value of about $12B.

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Soda Wars Summer

PYMNTS

The Ad Age story notes that it will also be supported by TV advertising, social media efforts and a summer-long “experiential” tour. The app will also allow users to record a 15-second “digital lip-sync video” that can be shared on social media using the hashtag #ShareaCoke, the brand told Ad Age.

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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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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

CB Insights

On the other, you have companies like Earth Class Mail, which despite its large user base went bankrupt during the 2007-08 financial crisis, only to reinvent itself and flourish under new ownership more than a decade later. Julep: M&A doesn’t guarantee ‘synergies’ Founded: 2007. Download the full 25-page report.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

PYMNTS

And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are. Fail — along with just about every other commerce initiative Facebook has tried to ignite using its platform, starting with Beacon in 2007. They examined anonymized tax data starting in the 1940s until 2015.

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