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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

PYMNTS

Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have officially ended a two-year investigation of LendingClub, its subsidiary LC Advisors (LCA), its founder and former CEO Renaud Laplanche and its former CFO Carrie Dolan. On Friday (Sept. The DOJ Finding.

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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

Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” To you, manage your interest rate risk. Before becoming desperate and trading interest rate risk for credit risk. What caused it?

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Guest Post: 2013 Economic Year in Review and Outlook by Banker Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

To put that GDP growth into perspective, consider that, in the three years following the recovery which began in June, 2009, real GDP averaged +2.2%. Incidentally, your QE 1 to 3 programs ran for six years, accumulated three trillion dollars of securities, and pushed long term rates lower when your forward guidance could not do so.

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Guest Post: 3rd Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

An August report by Challenger, Gray, and Christmas showed that layoffs have declined dramatically, to a monthly average of 56,000 since June, 2009 and have been below 100,000 for fourteen consecutive months for the first time since 1999-2000. Job openings reported by the Labor Department in July were 3.04

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Guest Post: 2nd Qtr Economic Review by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Mutual funds and ETFs specializing in mortgage backed securities saw their worst quarter in terms of losses and outflows since 1992. In the past decade, we have seen several Treasury routs that resulted in huge selling in the markets, most notably in 2003-2004, 2005-2006, and 2009. Thanks for reading.

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Guest Post: Third Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Liquidity is becoming a problem for these banks, and with their stocks battered daily, they have no ready sources of capital. Stocks have taken the brunt of investor frustration, selling off steeply in the third quarter for the worst quarterly loss since the height of the financial crisis in late 2008 and early 2009.

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Analyzing The Private Market Investment Strategies of P&C Insurers

CB Insights

” In this area, AmFam has made investments in startups including Cozy , a rent management startup, and mobile used car marketplace Instamotor. Liberty also made an investment toward its thematic focus in next-gen vehicles, participating in Michigan-based connected car security company Karamba Security ‘s $12M Series B in May 2017.