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Managing Stagflation Credit Risk in Banking – Part III

South State Correspondent

In a stagflation environment, as interest rates rise and cash flow (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA), or net operating income (NOI)) decreases, the borrower’s capacity to service debt as measured by the debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) decreases rapidly.

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Brazilian Retailer Magazine Luiza To Compete With Amazon

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The company is aiming to compete directly with Amazon , which launched its online Brazilian operations in 2012. After two of the country’s biggest booksellers — Saraiva Livreiros SA and Livraria Cultura — filed for bankruptcy protection last year, Magazine Luiza saw room in the market.

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Accountants Say UK Bank Referral Scheme A ‘Waste Of Money’

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” The scheme requires traditional lenders to refer small businesses to an alternative finance provider should they be rejected for a bank loan. Yet in the first 20 months of the Bank Referral Scheme, despite 19,000 small businesses being referred by their banks, only 900 actually obtained financing.

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KYB, Shell Companies And Pot Payments Gone Rogue

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In a new PYMNTS discussion, Karen Webster and Zac Cohen, general manager at Trulioo , used that lawsuit as a stepping off point to talk about how criminals get past anti-money laundering and other laws designed to keep payments honest, and what above-the-board firms and operations can do to stop it.

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Doubt, Confusion, Confidence: Where Crypto Stands In B2B Payments

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which the institution plans to deploy in its corporate payments operation. However, participation from the traditional financial services sector isn’t necessarily a requirement when it comes to crypto adoption, even in the B2B payments market, according to BitRail Co-founder and Vice Chairman Cameron Chell.

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Intuit Finally Offloads Quicken

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The Wall Street Journal reported that Intuit will sell the segment to a private equity firm, HIG Capital, in a process that took six months after the financial software giant said that it was embarking on efforts to “pare down” operations. Still on the market is QuickBase, while Demandforce was sold last month to Internet Brands.

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‘Think Locally’ Takes On New Meaning For X-Border Merchants

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For merchants, conducting cross-border trade often means following another nation’s local rules around payment acceptance, compliance, taxes and physical requirements and a host of other factors that vary between borders. He noted that Worldpay’s 2016 Global Payments Report anticipates the global eCommerce market will grow by 10.4