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Labour says it will use state bank to fund female-led businesses

TheGuardian

Exclusive: Shadow City minister Tulip Siddiq to reveal plan for target to end financial exclusion of women Labour plans to set targets for funding female-led businesses through the state-owned British Business Bank and to launch a review of the financial exclusion of women, if it wins the next general election. The initiatives, which will be announced on Monday by the shadow City minister Tulip Siddiq, form part of the party’s financial inclusion agenda, following a review by 10 City grandees ea

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Western Alliance's survival saga

American Banker

Last spring, the company's executives stared down any banker's worst fear: the threat of a deposit run. Here's what kept them off the list of 2023's dead banks.

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A crisis-tested bank CEO's path to leadership

American Banker

Ken Vecchione, leader of Western Alliance since 2018, grew up listening to his parents talk business strategy around the dinner table. He called on those lessons and his more than 30 years of experience to steer the regional bank through last year's turmoil.

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Timeline: Western Alliance dodges a bullet

American Banker

During the March 2023 banking crisis, company executives had to calm panicked customers, shore up liquidity and reassure investors after two other regionals failed. Key decisions during a critical seven-day window likely averted disaster.

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Fall In Love With the Month-End Close

It's the time of year to give our close process some TLC. Join us in this one hour webinar where we discuss how to adopt leading practices and infuse technology into the month-end close process to improve our experience and increase our productivity during month-end and quarter-end close. Learning Objectives: This course's objective is to understand how the month-end close can be improved with automation and adoption of leading practices.