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B2B Venture Capital: Corporate Social Media, Marijuana Procurement, and Big Data

PYMNTS

This week, the two countries were the only markets that landed on the B2B venture capital board, with funding landing at SaaS, Big Data and procurement startups across a range of industries, from corporate social media management to marijuana procurement. PYMNTS breaks down the $24 million in venture capital raised.

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Silicon Valley Bank Failure – Lessons in Interest Rate Risk Management

South State Correspondent

Based on the bank’s own filing, and like many banks, SVB did not deploy hedging instruments to manage its securities duration risk. Banks need to set the duration of their liabilities based on their products and customer base and then actively manage the interest rate risk on the loans and securities side of the balance sheet.

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How banks can win the next generation of retail investors

Accenture

However, during the pandemic we witnessed the union of social (media, communities and group action) and capital (saving and trading) as…. With this rise of the retail investor comes significant opportunity, as recently highlighted by our colleague Scott Reddel.

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Facebook's Libra Hires HSBC Veteran As Managing Director

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The Libra Association has named James Emmett as managing director of Libra Networks, the association’s operating company subsidiary. The group, based in Geneva, Switzerland, was founded by Facebook to launch the social media company’s entry into digital currency. The association named Levey to the CEO post in May.

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Capital One Q2 Earnings Preview: Increased Spending, Decline In Revenue Expected

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Financial experts are predicting Capital One’s second-quarter earnings will fall below expectations, despite their moderate success in the first quarter. One glaring expense was a significant increase in social media ad spending in the company’s efforts to find and attract new customers. Last year, Capital One spent $18.6

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Communications surveillance brings human capital concerns

Accenture

We talked first about the many, potentially worrisome doors opened by social media tools, and we’ve looked at the ways data, particularly unstructured data, can. We’ve been examining communications surveillance for financial services firms in this series of blog posts. Read more.

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Social Calendar App IRL Lands $16M In Series B Funding Round

PYMNTS

The initiative is being led by Goodwater Capital, the Silicon Valley tech investor; Founders Fund, the San Francisco-based venture capital firm; Floodgate, the venture capital company of Palo Alto, California; and New York-based Raine Group LLC, the global merchant bank focused on tech companies. .