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Banks and CDFIs: Partnering for community impact

Abrigo

Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) loan funds help to promote healthy communities by providing early-stage credit, capital, and financial services to small businesses, affordable housing and community facilities developers, community organizations, and other types of borrowers. communities where capital tends to be scarce.

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Report: Alibaba’s Ant Group Plans Hong Kong IPO At $200B+

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Based in Hangzhou, China, the company operates Alipay, an online payment service that debuted in 2004 and has evolved into the world’s largest payment and lifestyle platform, the company said. At the time, Credit Suisse and China International Capital Corp. Ant Group was launched in 2014 to provide global financial services.

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Virgin Galactic To Become First Listed Human Spaceflight Company

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Special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. The spaceflight company sees the arrangement as providing it with sufficient capital for funding until the time its spaceships have the ability to operate commercial and churn a profit.

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Lessons to apply to business valuations

Abrigo

There was a familiar conversation in 2004-06 where neighbors would find out what a house in the area sold for, peg the supposed value of their house off what their neighbor sold his or hers for and conclude that their house was worth $X. by running through the company’s operating structure. Beware the Comps. turns into $1.50

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PBOC Pumps $173B Into Chinese Economy To Combat Virus Impact

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The People’s Bank of China is poised to inject more money — $173 billion, the largest single liquidity injection since 2004 — into the country to stabilize the economic damage. The move was to be completed through reverse repo operations as the country reopens its stock market Monday (Feb. 3) from the extended Lunar New Year holiday.

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India’s Struggling Yes Bank Sees Share Boost From $1.2B Offer

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Yes Bank is a private-sector bank that mainly operates as a corporate bank, but it also does asset management and retail banking. The bank has had a tumultuous 2019, facing increased attention from regulators as well as scrutiny from investors, who are concerned about bad loans , lack of lender regulation and availability of capital.

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Dialing Up Performance in Home Equity Lending

Gonzobanker

With the inefficient, circa-2004 borrowing processes resident in many banks’ loan departments today, too few lenders are equipped to deal with the rising tide of home equity volumes that will descend like a tsunami on their operations the moment Fed chairman Jerome (What-Are-We-Waiting-For) Powell announces a rate cut.

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