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Once again, fintech was a hot topic at the annual ABS East conference in Miami Beach last month. But unlike in the past, the focus was not on the newest trend among marketplace lenders or payments companies, which are looking more like run of the mill banking institutions, but on how technology will enhance, digitize and eventually automate financial services. -
The decision to strip AIG of its designation as a systemically important financial institution (Sifi) says more about the arbitrary and confusing nature of the Sifi designation process, rather than the American insurance giant’s importance in the US financial system.
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Despite its noble intentions, the UK Labour Party’s plan to limit the total amount of interest and charges which credit card lenders can charge will cut access to credit and limit the flexibility for borrowers.
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Toys‘R’Us has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US and Canada as it attempts to restructure its debt. Its woes should be another hint to CLO managers that its time to cycle out of specialist retail exposures.
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For years there's been talk of online lenders and challenger banks disrupting the UK banking sector, but reports that Goldman Sachs is ready to plant its flag in the UK savings and consumer lending market is the biggest challenge established UK giants are likely to face.
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If BoE is to continue monetary stimulation beyond next year, it ought to look outside 'ordinary' QE, to what is popularly known as “helicopter money”.
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A move by Ford Credit to incorporate alternative data into its underwriting process will open up opportunities for underserved borrowers. More consumer lenders should follow suit if they want to reach, and more accurately assess, a growing segment of US consumers.
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Mario Draghi’s speech at Jackson Hole last week was never going to be earth-shattering but his complete silence on the issue of tapering the bank’s various asset purchase programmes managed to frustrate the market even more than had been expected.
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A reduction in the amount of bonds being purchased in the ECB’s ABS Purchase Programme shows that the ECB has been on a path to tapering in the asset class, even before it has been officially announced.
