Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2023

I was assigned to a typical strategy engagement – should client X selling product Y increase sales in market Z? Our analysis was impossible without extensive internal data and financial statements. We repeated our request a week later, but they only provided a balance sheet from the previous year.

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Data Consulting Balance Sheet Analysis 78

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Depending on the firm and specific role this case could be very strategic and operational like doing a market entry/growth-type case or very technical (i.e. building financial models like DCF, accretion/dilution, LBO, etc.). Acquisitions occur when one company buys another company and folds it into its operations.

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Balance Sheet Case Interview Case Study Case Studies 60

MishTalk

AUGUST 6, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Reader Question: Does the Fed Balance Sheet Properly Reflect QE Announcements?

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Balance Sheet Analysis Trends Real Estate 68

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Draghi Has it Backwards A director at a global financial company with offices worldwide pinged me in response to my post ECB''s €40bn Stimulus Gamble: ECB Pulls Out Bazooka, Cuts Rates, Buys Assets; Will this Stimulate Lending? You have the TLTROs which are going to unfold over several operations over two years initially, then two more years.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 23, 2013

An exceptional bid by China’s central bank to curb soaring interest rates and relieve pressure on the financial system appeared to have come up short on Monday, as Chinese money market rates shrugged off the measure and continued to approach the crisis levels seen in June. Don''t worry. There isn''t a cash crunch because China says so.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2013

China''s Move to Market-Set Rates Let''s step back to December 8 and look at China Relaxes Grip on Interest Rates China is relaxing its grip on interest rates with the launch of a financial instrument that allows banks to trade deposits with each other at market-determined prices. China’s credit boom is still in full swing.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The market panicked. Many other financial firms including AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac needed bail outs. It may feel as though the financial system hasn’t changed much in the decade since the downturn, but it has. Defaults on subprime mortgage loans mounted. There was a run on British bank Northern Rock.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

The BIS slam, coupled with a recent stock market selloff, brought up debate on a " controlled collapse ". Financial fluctuations (“financial cycles”) that can end in banking crises such as the recent one last much longer than business cycles. Yet financial cycles can go largely undetected.

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MishTalk

APRIL 12, 2015

Before the financial crisis, when Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the Fed, was insisting all was well with the banks, one Fed governor, the late Edward Gramlich, warned of mounting risks. That is, they operate with between 1.5 The sector of the financial industry with the greatest concentration of assets is the least well capitalized.

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MishTalk

MAY 19, 2014

The current cycle could see the default rate move lower still given the scope of deleveraging that followed the financial crisis and Great Recession. Corporate balance sheets are in excellent shape, and there is still an ample cash cushion available to fund operations in the event of a growth setback.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Following on the "success" of the ECB''s LTRO (Long Term Refinance Operation) which did nothing to spur lending and everything to create the biggest sovereign bond bubble the world has ever seen, ECB president Mario Draghi announced a TLTRO or Targeted LTRO on September 4. The ECB''s intent is to spur lending.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Lending Club is an online financial community that brings together creditworthy borrowers and savvy investors so that both can benefit financially. This takes, in round numbers, all of the risk out of Lending Club''s balance sheet. Cheap, easy loans contributed to the housing bubble and a near financial collapse.

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Banking Balance Sheet Financial Operations 74

Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

In it, the authors, both sociologists, made a compelling argument that, to understand labor market outcomes like inequality, it wasn’t enough to look at the supply and demand for individuals’ skills. However, any discussion of firms and wage inequality must not be limited to discussion of market forces. Related Video.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 8, 2014

Participants were most concerned about the marginal cost of additional asset purchases arising from risks to financial stability, pointing out that a highly accommodative stance of monetary policy could provide an incentive for excessive risk-taking in the financial sector.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 12, 2015

financial conference in New York. The bank has no plans to securitize its originations, and it won’t keep any servicing rights or build out a servicing operation, Ally spokeswoman Gina Proia said in an e-mail. “But Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Historically, commercial banking and investment banking functions have been separated by law – these restrictions have since been repealed and larger banks tend to take on capital markets operations due to the complimentary nature of the businesses. In secondary markets, the sales & trading function operates as a market maker.

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Banking Industry Balance Sheet Retail 12

MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Kristi Culpepper, a bond guru, has gone over Chicago''s annual financial report, bond documents, investor presentations, and CAFRs. trillion muni market had puzzled at the true identity of Bond Girl, Hector Negroni, co-founder of New York-based investing firm Fundamental Credit Opportunities, said in a telephone interview. “

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Of course, there is also persistent overoptimism about earnings growth and stock market expectations. Operating revenue decreased 15.9 In November 2007, the Federal Open Market Committee began releasing projections for real GDP growth four times per year in its Summary of Economic Projections (SEP). percent to $182.5

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. Comstock is out.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community). For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 12, 2016

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. The 300,000 companies in the association’s data set have more than doubled their profits from operations over the past 13 years, outpacing their corporate counterparts in the country. This success is no blip.

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MishTalk

JUNE 16, 2015

What got me thinking about this in detail was a recent statement by Financial Times writer Wolfgang Münchau that France and Germany stand to forfeit €160 billion if Greece defaults. The Bank of Greece has not published the end of May balance sheet yet. If it is, then the increase since end April is only €3 billion.

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Banking Balance Sheet Analysis Financial 28

MishTalk

JULY 13, 2015

Going forward however, GoldMoney account holder benefits will include: Access to prepaid debit cards operating on the MasterCard network Lower precious metals storage fees Lower dealing rates An Active Trading Platform Simplified User Interface with Mobile Phone Application. We are merely a software operating system for your vaulted gold.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap. Financial capital is abundant but carefully managed; human capital is scarce but not carefully managed.

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MishTalk

JUNE 30, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Operating conditions have now worsened for two successive months. Sitka Pacific.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It has been 10 years since the global financial crisis, and the fall-out continues in the industry that was at its epicenter: banking. There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global. And so their focus returned to domestic business.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

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.

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Banking Balance Sheet Government Comparison 74

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

And yet trust in business institutions, and the financial services sector in particular, is at an all-time low. 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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Consider the example of a manufacturer of production equipment that collects sensor-based telemetry about its machines’ operations, the status of their parts, their performance, their resource consumption, and other data. Financially, organizations require new models to account for information assets beyond treating them as intangibles.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs have proliferated across travel, retail, financial services, and other economic sectors. First, blockchain could help relieve a large balance-sheet liability that many in the industry are facing. The average U.S. Early adopters could benefit considerably.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 12 the Financial Times reported EU reaches landmark deal on failed banks with a "common rule book for handling failed banks". At the same time we also established clear rules to deal with the most exceptional cases in which overall financial stability is in danger. ” I replied "wait for the details".

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MishTalk

MARCH 17, 2014

Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets taught me much of what I know about global trade. Mish : Despite the obvious casino-like structure of global equity and bond markets, the poker game analogy is an extremely poor one. I am very appreciative. I tend to agree with most of his views.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 12, 2020

Responding to high levels of debt and financial instability, one would expect to see each bank try to protect itself by shrinking its loan book. Central banks pursue “inflation at any cost” in order to oil the wheels of the credit markets. This inadvertently fuels asset bubbles and financial instability.

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Banking Balance Sheet Financial Real Estate 120

MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2015

GoldMoney will continue to operate in Jersey as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Toronto parent. Rebuttal Highlights BullionVault's net assets are comprised of intercompany loans (yes, there is money reported as loans moving back and forth between the company and the CEO at above market interest rates).

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