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Foundational Skills for New Sales Hires: The Top 7

LSA Global

Teaching reps how to interpret a balance sheet or spot a companys pain points from a 10-K report may not seem like a sales skill, but its one that distinguishes top solution sellers from the rest of the pack. Collaboration Across Functions In most B2B sales environments, selling is a team sport.

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Rising COVID cases, falling economy

Tom Spencer

Since the start of February this year, the Fed has expanded its balance sheet by more than $2.4 To put that in context, the Fed was created in 1913, and its total balance sheet assets only reached $2.4 trillion in assets, but only 2 months to achieve the same amount of balance sheet expansion this year.

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Draghi Pressures ECB to Buy "Junk-Rated" Loan Bundles of Greece and Cyprus

MishTalk

On September 4, ECB President pulled out a financial bazooka including a pledge to build up the ECB''s balance sheet by another €1 trillion. In this case, the stench on Greek bank balance sheets will not go away. Instead, stench will also appear on the balance sheet of the ECB.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business

The market panicked. That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. Less apparent to the outside world is how much banks are also investing in controls, especially in their compliance, risk, and finance divisions.

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Mish Fined 8,000 Euros for Quoting French Blog

MishTalk

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 Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. By contrast, J.P.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. It breeds indifference, which in turn breeds a yawning gap between underwriters, whose balance sheets absorb risk (the risk takers), and customers, whose enterprises create risks (the risk makers).

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Another Unbelievable Stress-Free Test; Whitewash Math and Deferred Tax Assets

MishTalk

Roughly one in five of the euro zone''s top lenders failed landmark health checks at the end of last year but most have since repaired their finances, the European Central Bank said on Sunday. However, the total amount of under-capitalization is a mere €48 billion out of balance sheets that total €22 trillion.