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Blockchain Will Transform Customer Loyalty Programs

Harvard Business

First, blockchain could help relieve a large balance-sheet liability that many in the industry are facing. A robust, frictionless partner network could mean many more redemption options outside of the core travel product, thereby creating a much-needed release valve for these growing balance-sheet pressures.

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Swiss Gold Referendum in Perspective

MishTalk

Switzerland Gold Initiative Halt all Swiss National Bank (SNB) gold sales Repatriate Swiss gold held in foreign vaults (UK and Canada) Establishes minimum 20% level of SNB Assets in gold Of course, central bankers everywhere are horrified by the idea they should have to do anything, especially hold sound assets.

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ECB Now a Hedge Fund; €1T Bazooka; ECB Promotes Euro Carry Trade; Draghi Has it Backwards

MishTalk

Question: Mr Draghi, you said that the new measures and the TLTROs will have a sizeable impact on your balance sheet. So all this makes a precise estimate of the impact that these transactions will have on our balance sheet very complicated, especially at the stage when none of these operations have as yet been undertaken.

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"Whatever It Takes" Stage Two; Headwinds Explain Why Draghi Will Fail This Time

MishTalk

Having already cut interest rates to record lows and saying they can go no lower, Draghi is now focused on boosting the ECB’s balance sheet. We are quite confident that the impact on our balance sheet size will be adequate, will be significant, will be sizable,” Draghi said. trillion] more than the current level.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business

This spread of risk, of course, also prevented a merchant from absconding with his ship’s goods and never reuniting with the other traders; he’d have too much to lose. Part of the reason insurers are wary of insuring tangible assets in developing markets is the fear of fraud and losses that cannot be validated.

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China Cash Crunch Eases, For How Long? Three Things China Needs to Avoid; When can Beijing Truly move to Market-Determined Interest Rates?

MishTalk

China''s Move to Market-Set Rates Let''s step back to December 8 and look at China Relaxes Grip on Interest Rates China is relaxing its grip on interest rates with the launch of a financial instrument that allows banks to trade deposits with each other at market-determined prices. China’s credit boom is still in full swing.

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Mish Fined 8,000 Euros for Quoting French Blog

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Générale has severe capital constraints (which of course they will deny) and/or other major problems. trillion balance sheet is leveraged nearly 49-to-1. As a group, these three banks have some €4 trillion in assets on their balance sheets, supported by €129.3 Société Générale. of its assets—which means its €1.6