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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. Securities add no long-term value while loans contribute about 10% ( HERE ) to value.

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Measuring capital at risk in the UK banking sector

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The probability of an extreme stress event with losses above £91 billion (roughly 19% of CET1 capital) increased from 1% before the pandemic to 4.1% Measuring capital at risk. We derive two forward-looking measures of solvency risk (one year ahead) – a capital at risk measure (CAR) and a conditional capital at risk measure (CCAR).

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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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Today In Payments Around The World: Visa Debuts Europe FinTech Partnership Program; Payments Canada Teams With Mastercard’s Vocalink 

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FinTech Partner Connect will “support new ways for businesses and consumers to seamlessly and securely pay, get paid, send money and more,” according to a representative for the company in an email announcing the effort. Payments Canada Partners With Mastercard’s Vocalink To Advance Real-Time Rail.

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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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Alibaba eCommerce Rival Pinduoduo Secures $1B In Funding

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billion if some underwriters exercise full share buying options. The company, which went public six months ago and raised $1.6 billion, said it’s planning on selling 37 million of its shares to raise the new billion, or even $1.25 PDD was founded in September of 2015 by an ex-Google employee named Colin Huang.

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Citi Wants Revlon Lenders To Return $900M Paid In Error

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Revlon has been fighting with Brigade Capital Management LP, HPS Investment Partners LLC and Symphony Asset Management, the lenders holding the loan.

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