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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. This is not surprising: Growing regulation, increased investor focus on governance issues, and scary new categories of corporate risk (e.g.

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What is a Healthy Company?

Markovitz Consulting

In 2019, the organization announced that corporations should be governed to benefit all stakeholders— customers, employees, suppliers, communities and shareholders. Similarly, one of the primary drivers of GE’s fall from grace was the reckless pursuit of profits from its financing operations. What makes for a healthy company?

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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

A bank’s income statement can be simplified into five main line items: Net interest income Non-interest income Operating expenses Provision for credit losses (PCL) Tax Image 1: Illustrative example of a bank’s income statement Source: CIBC’s 2022 Annual Report 1. The biggest swing in operating expenses is likely to be variable compensation.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business

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). Research has shown that a 1% rise in insurance adoption translates into a 22% decrease in the taxpayer burden of uninsured losses.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

Like they have for extreme weather and natural disasters, companies can begin to establish international protocols and standards to govern AI not just within their own walls, but also to put in place processes to work with other companies, insurers, and policymakers. Intelligent Device Recovery Plans. AI International Protocols.

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ECB's €40bn Stimulus Gamble: ECB Pulls Out Bazooka, Cuts Rates, Buys Assets; Will this Stimulate Lending?

MishTalk

Governing Council decided today to lower the interest rate on the main refinancing operations of the Eurosystem by 10 basis points to 0.05% and the rate on the marginal lending facility by 10 basis points to 0.30%. The Governing Council decided to start purchasing non-financial private sector assets. Banks if and only if.

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The 3 Company Crises Boards Should Watch For

Harvard Business

Problem-finding boards understand the three drivers of ungoverned incompetence — a collapse of competence, shortcomings in self-governance, and inadequate corporate governance — and why they can be so hard to detect. But as the organization grew, its operations became more complex. Shortcomings in Self-Governance.

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