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Go Where No Operations Department Has Gone Before – Instant Settlement

Perficient

The front office is screaming down to the Settlement Office, “Operations, we need more capital!” Any operations team that has dealt with a stock loan trading desk can contest the inherent friction between providing more available securities to the desk and reliance on settlement cycles and market constraints.

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California Lets Aurora Operate Driverless Cars

PYMNTS

Aurora, with logistical operations currently in Palo Alto, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco, has approximately a dozen self-driving vehicles used for testing on American public roads. 620 million has been financed to date, with Sequoia Capital, Amazon, and T. Rowe Price Associates contributing.

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Top 10 business valuation blog articles from 2015

Abrigo

Read the most popular business valuation articles published by Sageworks in 2015. For accountants and others in financial services, that means a multitude of opportunities can arise to use valuations in planning for succession, evaluating capital allocation and developing a company’s overall road map for growth. Did you miss them?

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The deception of capital expenditure and working capital in business valuation

Abrigo

This article includes an overview of capital expenditure (CapEx) and operating expenditure (OpEx) as well as considerations for how best to utilize these numbers in valuation engagements. The cost of the capital items is first recorded on the company’s balance sheet as assets. Accounting standards in the U.S.

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Bank Product Profitability and Productivity

South State Correspondent

In our last article ( HERE ), we highlighted the methodology around why banks should calculate and drive value through customer profitability and product profitability. We focused mainly on customer profitability and used risk-adjusted return on capital as a proxy for profitability. increase in M/B. The answer is – most likely.

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Why Mexico’s SMBs Need A FinTech Operating System And Not Another Bank

PYMNTS

The world needs a FinTech operating system.”. In the past, the banking system was so broken that in establishing ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO), articles of incorporation allowed business owners to assign people to stand in line and open up bank accounts on the UBO’s behalf.

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Bank IT Spending – Use These Metrics to Improve Performance

South State Correspondent

In this article, we partner with Gartner to look at 2024 key IT metrics and provide strategic insight into how much your bank should be spending on IT. Benchmarking can help banks better optimize capital as it gives bank management a sense of what the average is for the industry. Usually, a bank spends about 8% of its revenue on IT.

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