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The Current Banking Crisis – 10 Not So Apparent Lessons

South State Correspondent

It turns out that confidence is more valuable than capital. The ratio would provide a bank’s current core capital position to risk-adjusted assets. 8) Deposit Impact of Social Media: SVB’s customer base and followers were highly active on Twitter and other social media properties.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

Seriously, sit back with a pocket flask of Pappy Van Winkle, smoke a cigar (or your combustible of choice if you live in Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Main or Massachusetts) and enjoy the 2017 GonzoBanker Awards. It will never regain its IPO value and it trades at one-third the market cap of LendingTree.

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55 US Companies That Became Unicorns In 2018

CB Insights

Select Investors: Tencent Holdings, Disney Accelerator, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vulcan Capital, ICONIQ Capital. Select Investors: Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Wellcome Trust, GIC, SoftBank Group, DST Global. Valuation: $12B.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

CB Insights

Market share is simply shifting away from big chains that haven’t successfully innovated, flowing instead to new models for creating and selling food to customers. The sophisticated food hall: North 3rd Street Market (Brooklyn). Community initiatives: Loom (Massachusetts). That’s not a new development.

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Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting

CB Insights

The early consultants changed that by using market research and data analysis combined with niche expertise to help companies manage their supply chains, improve their product positioning, and enter new markets to beat their competitors. Consultants did this because clients weren’t. From the FAQ for BCG’s Gamma program.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Merger of Equals Deal of the Year (Credit Union) – Spire Credit Union and Hiway Credit Union put 2+2 together to make a $4 billion institution in the Minnesota market. While Huntington is down like most bank stocks, the pain hasn’t been as severe, and Huntington doubled down on local markets in 2023 by consolidating business units.

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From China With Love: AI, Robotics, AR/VR Are Hot Areas For Chinese Investment In US

CB Insights

We define Chinese investment as participation in private financing rounds by investors (corporate, venture capital, angel, private equity, etc.) In May, Tencent opened an AI research lab in Seattle focused on speech recognition as it looks to apply AI research to its social media, online games, and cloud services.

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