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Bank Valuation: Understanding Key Ratios and Metrics

Tom Spencer

In the previous article , we looked at how banks make money and how they must meet capital requirements. However, P/B has generally become a measure that is less useful than it was in the past since banks’ balance sheets are not as important as they used to be in determining earnings power. We will examine each in turn.

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The 3 Things to Know Before a Sales Meeting with an Executive

LSA Global

A Sales Meeting with an Executive is Always High Stakes Solution sellers who get a sales meeting with a target company’s executive consistently close more complex deals than those who sell at lower levels. How do you gain this perspective, so you can discuss strategies and impact rather than tactics and features?

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"Whatever It Takes" Stage Two; Headwinds Explain Why Draghi Will Fail This Time

MishTalk

Having already cut interest rates to record lows and saying they can go no lower, Draghi is now focused on boosting the ECB’s balance sheet. We are quite confident that the impact on our balance sheet size will be adequate, will be significant, will be sizable,” Draghi said. trillion] more than the current level.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Reader Question: Does the.

MishTalk

Reader Question: Does the Fed Balance Sheet Properly Reflect QE Announcements? The feds balance sheet doesnt reflect it. The balance sheet was up $720 billion from Aug 1, 2012 to Aug 1, 2013 ($309B in treasuries and $393B in MBS) but that is only $60B per month. Feds Balance Sheet. QE History.

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Greek default in all but name - Tom Spencer consulting blog

Tom Spencer

It is surprising that ratings agencies did not classify the writedown as a default when you consider that S&P defines sovereign default as “the failure to meet interest or principal payments on the due date…contained in the original terms of the rated obligation when issued”. Business Strategy. Graduate Consulting Group.

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5 Ways Your Data Strategy Can Fail

Harvard Business

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. Except for very few, this hasn’t happened. Indeed, the cold reality is that for most, progress is agonizingly slow. It takes a lot to succeed with data. The last element is defense , essentially minimizing risk.

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China Interest Rate Crisis Continues: 7-Day Interest Rate Doubles to 10% in One Week; China Bans Words "Cash Crunch"

MishTalk

Rates continued to surge on Monday, however, in China’s money markets — a key source of short-term funding for commercial banks and also for financial institutions engaged in risky, off-balance-sheet shadow lending. China’s banks are scrambling for short-term cash to meet month-, quarter- and year-end regulatory requirements.