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eWallets Don’t Make Money, Says Mandiri Capital Chief

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The CEO of PT Mandiri Capital Indonesia, the venture capital arm of PT Bank Mandiri, said the only way digital payment platforms can ever make money is by acting as a sort of portal into other services, otherwise it’s “just a cash-burning exercise,” according to reports. Nobody makes money from e-wallets,” Danusaputro said.

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Federal Reserve Releases 2021 CCAR Testing Scenarios

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In 2020, the Federal Reserve found that large banks were generally well-capitalized under a range of hypothetical events. The Fed’s Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (“CCAR”) stress tests are designed to ensure that large banks are able to lend to households and businesses even in a severe recession.

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How to Set Your Strategic Planning Time Horizon

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Banks consistently produce under their cost of capital. However, for the average bank, their cost of capital is between 9% and 14% depending on the bank’s equity liquidity with an average of 12.5%. As an industry, we misallocate capital. However, if you want to build a legacy institution, then your capital should be longer.

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Mint Payments Completes $6M Placement For Southeast Asia Expansion

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The report noted the capital raising will be undertaken in two tranches, with tranche 1 comprised of 50.6 The option is exercisable over an 18-month term at an exercise price of $0.079, which will, if exercised, provide Mint with further growth capital of up to $2.4 million shares, raising $4 million.

Exercises 120
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CarLotz Gets Go-Ahead From Its Shareholders For Merger With SPAC

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is a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) “formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses,” according to the announcement. Acamar Partners Acquisition Corp. The company landed $305.6

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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

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Strategic Horizon and Capital As mentioned, the problem that bank’s often run into when it comes to strategic planning is their time horizon is too short. The fundamental problem is a bank’s implied average life of capital is long, some 18+ years, but their strategic horizon is too short – likely under three years.

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Peloton Rival Equinox Snags Funding From Silver Lake

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Luxury gym operator Equinox has secured funding from Silver Lake, an equity firm, in its continuing bid to compete with exercise giant Peloton, according to a report by Bloomberg. Terms of the funding were not disclosed. Equinox already has around 100 locations throughout North America and the U.K., Peloton’s shares fell 4.9

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