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Importantly, this advancement in controls technology allows the lighting system to be controlled, owned, and operated by a third party, shifting the investment off the building’s balancesheet. How It Works. Similar to other as-a-service models, LaaS allows a customer to “rent” its ceilings to a service provider.
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Thus a trust and efficiency engine like blockchain technology has the potential to drive radical change in the insurance industry while improving transparency and outcomes across the entire value chain.
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That strengthened investment banks’ balancesheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. As a result, their balancesheets are half as large on a risk-adjusted basis, and the capital they hold against trading positions has doubled over the past decade, our research shows.
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Such transactions typically happen between two businesses that are about the same size and which recognize advantages the other offers in terms of increasing sales, efficiencies, and capabilities. If there are debts owed by each organization, then the M&A process may increase the total balancesheet debt of the combined company.
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