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Shifting the composition of start-up cohorts can boost macroeconomic performance

BankUnderground

Examples include tax measures to stimulate firm-level Research & Development and structural reforms to eliminate distortions in labour, financial, and product markets. The algorithm uncovers the presence of five well-separated clusters of start-ups, which we label large; capital intensive; high-leverage; cash-intensive and basic.

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Yahoo! Is! For! Sale!: Why Banks Should Care

Celent Banking

The announcement in December came on the heels of a nearly 12-month project aimed at spinning its 15% interest (worth $30 billion) in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company, to its shareholders, a transaction that has been abandoned over tax concerns. By spinning out the Alibaba stake to Yahoo!’s

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. Actually, the Bank had a one-time after tax litigation settlement (from a 2002-04 event) of $6.2 A princely some to a Bank with $107 million of capital at the time. This, naturally, eliminated many of the smaller, illiquid FIs. Then, kaboom!

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. To you, manage your interest rate risk.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

In the early 2000s, venerable retailers Sears and Kmart began losing ground to Walmart and Target, with Kmart even filing for Chapter 11 in 2002. Eager to get in on the action and capitalize on the growing number of Latin American internet users, the Spanish telecom company Terra Networks purchased Lycos in a $12.5B Date: June 1998.

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The 225 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Aug 2021)

Fintech Labs Insights

168t ($1.3B): USA crypto tax software provider TaxBit. Scalable Capital. Personal Capital. . #108t ($2.5B): Personal finance app Uala based in Argentina. 126t ($2B): American RE investing specialist Divvy Homes. 126t ($2B): Nigerian payment company Opay. 180t ($1.1B): Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX. June 2021 round. Netherlands.

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The 238 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Sep 2021)

Fintech Labs Insights

Scalable Capital. Personal Capital. Clearwater Analytics. 24 Sep 2021. Investing/back office. Root Insurance. Oct 2020 IPO. HealthEquity. 9 Sep 2021. Dec 2020 spinout. Oct 2021 round. Payroll/SMB. LendingClub. 9 Sep 2021. Mar 2021 round. China UnionPay. Per Crunchbase 12/19. Devoted Health. May 2020 fundraising. Doma (States Title).

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