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Things worth reading: 24th July 2020

Chris Skinner

Things we’re reading today include … Ex-Barclays banker’s sexist comments about Amanda Staveley released Ant Group announces plans to list in Shanghai and Hong Kong Banks lose out to capital markets when it comes to credit provision A shift from paper to virtual cash will empower central banks What are … The post Things worth (..)

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Things worth reading: 17th February 2020

Chris Skinner

Things we’re reading today include … China disinfects banknotes and quarantines them for 14 days Brexit: Britain and EU ‘will rip each other apart’ in trade talks Former Morgan Stanley president slams Europe’s capital markets Climate change could make premiums unaffordable: QBE Insurance UK digital bank Monzo plans to hire … (..)

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Dignari Capital Gives $50M To Sheng Ye Capital For SCF Innovation

PYMNTS

Dignari Capital has agreed to provide $50 million to Sheng Ye (SY) Capital in a strategic collaboration to explore new supply chain finance options for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), according to a press release. Tung Chi Fung , chairman of SY Capital, said there are already plans in the works.

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Bitcoin Daily: Crypto-Related Crime Fell To $10 Billion In 2020; Singapore Exchange, Temasek Team On Digital Asset Market Infrastructure

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Cryptocurrency-related crime fell in 2020, according to a blog post from Chainalysis. percent, or $10 billion, by 2020, the report says. The crimes that ended up driving the change in 2020 were scams and the darknet market, the blog's stats report. In 2019, criminal activity constituted 2.1 billion in transfers.

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Capital Assessment, Capital Planning Are Critical as Coronavirus Creates Chaos

Abrigo

Key Takeaways Stress tests and capital planning are vital to financial institutions in volatile times like these, when the coronavirus and pressures on the energy sector result in a financial crisis. Current environment = Challenging stressed capital planning. This has resulted in theoretical assumptions for capital planning.

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China-Based IPOs Raised $11.7 Billion In 2020

PYMNTS

The IPO rate for Chinese companies is the highest since Alibaba’s massive market debut in 2014, according to CNBC , citing a new report from Renaissance Capital. market for 2020, according to Renaissance Capital. Other companies have also seen their market appeal fizzle. China and the U.S. stock exchanges.

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Data: London FinTechs Netted $3.6B In VC Investments So Far In 2020

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billion in venture capital investments between January and September 2020, according to a press release from London & Partners emailed to PYMNTS. The pandemic has dealt blows to many markets, but so far, London's FinTech market appears to be coping well, the release stated, with data suggesting that around 95 percent of the U.K.'s