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...“It is routine for large corporations in the US to invest in [domestic] CDFIs, knowing they boost business growth, help create jobs and address regional and demographic under-representation in accessing...
...Greg Obenshain of Verdad Capital sums up: You have inverted yield curves, a Fed still tightening, the Fed Lending Survey indicating that lending standards are much tighter, all indicative of tight money...
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Axios’ Sara Fischer dug up a great scoop from the sheet FTAV shared: purportedly independent media company The Block has “been secretly funded for more than a year with money funnelled to The Block’s CEO...
...Building materials manufacturer CRH added two non-executive directors to its board: vice-chairman and chief financial and planning officer of Eaton Corporation, Richard Fearon, and chief transition officer...
...Between signing that deal in 2006 and closing it in 2008, the financial crisis unfolded and the two firms had to get their lending banks to buck up in order to fund the bridge loans....
...Triggered by predatory home lending and excessive risk-taking by financial institutions, it led to a wave of debt crises from Greece to Iceland, high-profile bank failures, corporate bankruptcies, mass lay-offs...
...Shanghai’s bourse suspended the listing on Tuesday night, a day after Beijing announced draft rules that could weigh heavily on Ant’s vital lending business....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 16, 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Kunal Soni, a former managing director at The Carlyle Group, has joined Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s direct lending team in Los Angeles....
...SocGen’s Brian Hilliard has gone 2016-2019 revivalist and made a decision tree....
...The magic money tree has set down deep roots....
...Their stumbling block was that, in the period leading up to Lehman’s collapse, the Washington consensus was that supporting troubled financial institutions would encourage more risky behaviour and increase...
...The company is developing AI and blockchain technologies for its financial investment ecosystem and products for managing financial services....
...He said the company was not in a hurry to sell any assets, dismissing talk that many of its recent purchases could be on the block....
...The latter holds a mishmash of stakes in internet properties like Lending Tree and other Liberty companies....
...Data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation show that loans of less than $1m accounted for 20 per cent of total loans to commercial and industrial businesses in the US at the end of last year — down...
...There might be big corporation tax cuts in the event of a no-deal Brexit....
...It comprises Flushing Financial, Guaranty Bancorp, Independent Bank, MutualFirst Financial, Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida, State Bank Financial, and United Financial....
...different rules on food safety to its inclusion of an international investment dispute resolution mechanism that opponents claim would give US companies special rights to sue EU member governments and block...
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...The financial crisis of 2008 sparked a wave of anti-bank sentiment that fed into Lending Club’s disruptive message....
...tax in the UK and the US, according to an analysis by the Financial Times....
...A new swaps dealer on the block: BP....
...Together, LEI-nouns and PI-adjectives are key building blocks of a new common financial language.”...
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