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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

Unfortunately, companies in the lean community don’t seem to take much note of, or try to copy these experiments, probably because the benefits aren’t reflected on the income statement or balance sheet. But the reduction in office hours can be the stimulus for creative thinking about how to increase productivity and efficiency.

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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

Tracking operating efficiency is important but you should focus on trends over time rather than comparing absolute numbers among banks because operating efficiency is heavily influenced by business mix and does not take into account capital requirements or risk. Image 3: Illustrative example of a bank’s operating expenses 4.

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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

Heres my understanding of the current TARP/TARPII/PPIP/etc plans: The major "sick" banks wont lend to businesses, because their balance sheets are tied up with bad assets that they cant sell. Isnt also true that providing funds to the sick banks also insures they dont go under? A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

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Descent of the Global Monetary System

Tom Spencer

The principal goal of the Bretton Woods System was to create an efficient foreign exchange system in order to promote trade and economic growth while at the same time preventing countries from engaging in competitive currency devaluations. In America, the FDIC insures each depositor for up to US$250,000.

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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

China''s Central Bank Discusses Deposit Insurance On December 9, Caixin Online noted PBOC Said to Be Talking to Major Banks about Deposit Insurance. Financial reform, which lies at the heart of China’s reform wishlist, embraces the eventual liberalisation of deposit rates, and the determination of interest rate levels by markets.

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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. Deposits are insured by the government up to C$100,000 in Canada and up to US$250,000 in America. Commercial vs Retail Banking.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business

While Edward Lloyd is largely credited with commercializing the insurance industry, with the creation of his namesake firm, Lloyd’s, over 330 years ago, the original concept of spreading risk (or “mutualizing”) goes back even further. Herein, as with all insurance, is where the concept of utmost good faith is laid bare.