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How the Financial World Adapts to Climate Change

Tom Spencer

Knowing the ins and outs of upcoming trends in finance is indispensable for any aspiring consultant. A prime example for such a question is how finance is adapting to the issue of climate change, and might assist its mitigation. Green Finance. Resilience Bonds. Final thoughts.

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New Zealand’s Financial Crises Resilience

Tom Spencer

Flexible exchange rate, product and labour markets. Thankfully, median prices in the housing market remained reasonably high , with the growth of house prices stagnating only temporarily rather than falling. In 2008, the HPI contradicted Makhlouf and other median house price studies by showing a large decline in the value of housing.

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European Banks Dump Massive Amounts of Subordinated Debt on Investors

MishTalk

It is the highest such volume since the $122.4bn seen in 2008 according to Dealogic, the data provider. Details show the alleged rainy-day fund is a pathetic €12.5bn of joint funds not available until 2020, even though 128 banks covered in the agreement have an aggregate balance sheet somewhere between €26 trillion and €27 trillion.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

My own firm released a survey recently of 835 large companies (with an average revenue of $20 billion) that predicts a net job loss of between 4% and 7% in key business functions by the year 2020 due to AI. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. ZB by 2020. Will robo-advisors disrupt corporate capital allocation the same way they have personal capital allocation?

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

As companies continue to expand into new markets, the makeup of the workforce in our companies and communities served is becoming more diverse. Inequity and discrimination result from failure, one person at a time, one action at a time (Greenleaf, 2008). 2008) The servant as leader. link] Doolittle, J. Greenleaf, R. Gregory, B.

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Laughable Eurozone Banking "Non-Union"; Expect Disorderly Breakup

MishTalk

The latest proposals could see up to 126 people being consulted on how to wind up a bank, even though agreement might need to be reached over the course of a weekend while financial markets are closed. At the heart of the disagreement is what to do when so-called bank resolution funds, financed by the banking sector, run out of money.

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