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The declining elasticity of US housing supply

BankUnderground

We find that US housing supply has become less elastic since the crisis, with bigger declines in places where land-use regulation has tightened the most, and in areas that had larger price declines during the crisis. The 1996-2006 boom vs the 2012-2017 recovery. during 2012-17. during the 1996-2006 housing boom, to 1.75

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Signal Media’s AI Reads The News

PYMNTS

million from Q Capital Partners, which will be slated for health care and other verticals served by the company. The only other deal that came in at the double-digit mark was for iGola, also in China, where the travel search engine firm landed a $19 million funding round from Rich Land Capital, a private equity firm.

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COVID-19 Briefing: Pandemics, Natural Disasters and Banks’ Balance Sheets

BankUnderground

Banks active in the disaster area after hurricane Katrina hit, increased their capital ratios by reducing risk-weighted assets. Only stand-alone banks, especially those with already high capital ratios, behaved this way. Furthermore, banks are often encouraged by regulators to extend loans to borrowers affected by a natural disaster.

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Socure Raises $13 Million In New Capital

Fintech Labs Insights

In a round led by Flint Capital, digital identity verification technology specialist Socure has raised $13 million in funding. Featuring participation from ff Venture Capital, Santander InnoVentures, and Two Sigma Ventures, this week’s investment takes Socure’s total financing to more than $17 million.

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Bankers: Is your strategy the same as your competitor?

Jeff For Banks

Since the fourth quarter, 2012, we have expanded to serve the small business community by offering loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration as well as the U.S. Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc. of the total portfolio, as of December 31, 2012 and 2013, respectively. Department of Agriculture. million to $1.28

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. That got regulator's attention in the form of a May 2011 Consent Order (CO). In 2012, the company had net income of $7.0 A princely some to a Bank with $107 million of capital at the time. But they didn't bury their head in the proverbial sand.

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

CB Insights

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Stripe went on to raise a seed round from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, and PayPal founders Peter Thiel and Elon Musk in 2011.

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