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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business

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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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. “Take an interest in the balance sheet and then do the due diligence to understand it,” he says. “There are four ratios common in every company: profitability, leverage, liquidity, and operational efficiency,” he says.

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How Deloitte Consulting LLP and Salesforce Are Using Technology to Transform the Employee Experience - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DELOITTE’S CONNECTME AND SALESFORCE

Harvard Business

And we call this a move from a business enterprise to a social enterprise—one where businesses need to understand what’s happening in the broader society, in their workplace, and with a rapidly changing workforce.

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Banks – Industry Overview

Tom Spencer

Translated into plain English, asset sensitive means margins expand when the Federal Funds rate increases, as the interest income from assets on the balance sheet increase faster than liabilities. Banks refer to interest rate risk as “asset sensitive” or “liability sensitive”. Funding and the Loan Mix. Image: Pexels.

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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

It is clear that banking institutions, state-owned enterprises and local government financing vehicles have remained relatively insensitive to, or been able to circumvent, higher interest rates and bond yields, central government curbs on the shadow banking sector, and the rampant real estate and infrastructure markets.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

Think of E as Enterprise Value. In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods. C 2 is the exponential effect of Connectivity and Co-creation.

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Pettis on Debt, Malinvestments, Hidden Losses, and China's GDP

MishTalk

Any model that predicts China’s future GDP growth must include, if it is to be valid, a variable that reflects estimates of the amount of hidden losses buried in the banks’ balance sheets. If it does not, it cannot possibly be a valid model to describe China’s economy, and its predictions are useless.