Remove 2011 Remove Lending Remove Marketing Remove Taxes
article thumbnail

Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

After a lengthy stretch of strong economic growth and stock market gains, the inevitable correction arrived with force in the fourth quarter, culminating with a December that can only be described as “tres terrible!” A Long, Cold December I could just scream! The spread between 3 month and 10 year Treasuries is not much better, dropping to.23%

article thumbnail

Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. Marketplace lending. The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. Marketplace Lending. Honesty is the best policy.

Fintech 183
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010 in an attempt to gain share in online payments, a then-nascent market with seemingly boundless growth opportunity. Market opportunity. Business lending and corporate cards. Stripe is ramping up its private market investments. Expansion into emerging markets.

Online 98
article thumbnail

Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

Gentle Monster Background Founded in 2011 by Kim, Gentle Monster initially struggled to break through against large brands like Luxottica which controls an estimated 30% of the US market, and is behind almost every single designer eyeglass brand you can think of, including Ray-Ban, Oakley, Armani, Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Prada and many more.

article thumbnail

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

CB Insights

In a deal that aimed to open the Chinese coal markets, US heavy-equipment behemoth Caterpillar paid $677M in 2012 to acquire ERA Mining Machinery Ltd. The Chinese coal market is one of the biggest in the world and this deal looked like easy money. Date: October 2011. Date: August 15, 2011. HP and Autonomy. ” 11.

Google 76
article thumbnail

Guest Post: 3rd Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

What are the Markets Thinking? Bond markets have been the big winners in the third quarter. Stock markets performed exceptionally well in September after a summer selloff that took the Dow below the 10,000 level again. Still, with stock markets having done so well during September, I would have expected rates to rise somewhat.

Taxes 60
article thumbnail

GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. For 35 years, Wilmers led M&T with creativity, integrity and the “old-school” wisdom of a community banker who created a $26 billion market cap company. Oh, by the way, that Fintech darling of two years ago Lending Club?