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OCC Defines Top Threats To Banks This Season

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Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has again released its report on top risks facing banks, with its Spring 2017 analysis warning FIs that threats are coming from all angles. Noreika, acting Comptroller of the Currency, in a statement. Today, the federal banking system remains healthy,” he continued. “As

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Why Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution

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Success is now defined by the ability to reach a critical mass of users – consumers or businesses – efficiently and effectively … where time is an important currency, as is the ability to influence and/or control that end user experience. Capturing the Center of the Store.

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Apple Pay’s Tough Twenty Months

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NFC penetration at launch was 15 large retailers’ stores and some 200k merchant locations. OpenTable retrenched and instead concentrated on building a critical mass of consumers and restaurants in cities that then gave them the ability to expand with a critical mass of both in tow. UNDERESTIMATING THE VALUE OF TIME AS A CURRENCY.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. BITTERLY MICHELL: Not in leveraged, no, not at all, give more …. They understand currencies. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management.

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Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies

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The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. The Crypto Has No Clothes. The Need for a Balanced View.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. And now, some of the retailers are talking about easing Amazon and Walmart.

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Transcript: Stephen Suttmeier

Barry Ritholtz

00:26:19 [Speaker Changed] It, it’s, it’s usually it is aggressive shorts from leveraged funds on s and p futures. Safe harbor harbor here, a little apo apocalyptic currency. You can see it also in futures positioning. And, and 00:26:27 [Speaker Changed] Are these professionals or are these punters and amateurs?