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Sweden’s Central Bank Floats E-Krona As Digital Currency

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Sweden’s Riksbank is assessing e-krona, a new form of digital currency that hopes to take the country a step closer to the creation of the world’s first central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to reports on Thursday (Feb. CBDCs are a digital form of traditional money issued and governed by a country’s central bank.

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Zest AI CEO: Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Lending and Credit

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It’s here now and being used to make good banks better — whether to eliminate discrimination in lending decisions, add stability to existing screening systems or drive loan growth and profits. Ensuring Inclusive Banking. He said everyone in banking — from small credit unions to giant U.S. It’s not an idea, it’s not a postulate.

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10 Weekend Reads

Barry Ritholtz

Or why we need less math in music theory. ( Morgan , where she is co-head of commercial banking. Tablet ) see also Welcome to the New Military-Industrial Complex. Each sentence should have its own organic length, unconnected to what came before or goes after. So why doesnt our music do that?

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You’re Living in a World Wrought by Central Banks. Notice Anything Wrong?

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In an interview with Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Nomi Prins takes up and extends the argument that she has made over a series of books, that central bankers are ever-more administering policies that are good for the markets but very bad for the real economy and real people. economy and Wall Street.

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10 Friday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

Most economic downturns hit lower-income Americans hardest, but this time is different. Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame.

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Members’ Profile: Rofhiwa Irene Singo

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However, my commerce teacher noticed my aptitude for math and saw potential in me for a different path. My career journey began at the age of 20, working in banking shortly after finishing my studies. My interest in finance began unexpectedly in high school. Can you share some career highlights and defining moments?

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Speed Bumps Ahead For Reliance Jio – And Perhaps (Digital) Payments?

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The math implies that 87 million users were inactive. BGR India reported that the app was in the testing phase and had onboarded a number of banks – Axis, ICICI, HDFC, Standard Chartered and others among them.

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