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UK Losing Foreign Exchange Market To Asia

PYMNTS

s share of the foreign exchange market has dropped, while the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) reported that Asia, particularly Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore, are picking up the pieces. The BIS survey shows that the renminbi has doubled its take of the global FX market. Financial Times reported that the U.K.’s

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The consumption response to borrowing constraints in the mortgage market

BankUnderground

How is household consumption affected by borrowing constraints in the mortgage market? We show that HTB boosted household consumption in addition to stimulating housing market activity. Relaxing the down payment constraint thus has important macroeconomic effects that extend beyond the housing market.

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Bank Earnings Call Questions – Get Ready for These

South State Correspondent

To do that, we wrote a Python script to analyze a representative sample of earnings call transcripts for regional and mid-sized banks over the past several years. Questions as a Percent of Total On aggregate, questions about the general market or economy make up about 20% of all questions asked, followed by questions about loans or credit.

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CRE Credit Risk – What You Need To Know Now

South State Correspondent

While the market focuses on deposits and liquidity, media pundits and analysts are waiting for credit problems to appear. CRE Risk Background While ten years ago, community and regional banks use to make up some 55% of the CRE market, in 2023, these banks now compose approximately 72% (below). touched off a wave of bankruptcies.

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Asia Closes In On UK In Forex Market Dominance

PYMNTS

.’s share of the global currencies trading market dropped to 37.1 percent, reports by Financial Times said late last week — that’s down from 41 percent in 2013. BIS found that, together, Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong snagged a hefty portion of the market away from the U.K., China Rises.

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Latin America Tech Booms As Brazil Dominates And Regional Investors Grow

CB Insights

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Since 2012, investments into the region have nearly tripled. Want the 12-page report for free? at the time.

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Auto lending up more than 30 percent at credit unions since 2012

Abrigo

A resurgent job market (with 257,000 U.S. The auto industry had a substantial year in 2014, selling nearly one million more vehicles than in 2013. Regionally, the rocket-like momentum remains clear. have increased their auto lending portfolios by more than $21 billion, the largest jump of any region.

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