Finserv Reading - Week ending October 27, 2024

Banking

5 key considerations to transform core banking systems

Green Dot launches embedded finance brand

Wells Fargo may lose up to $3 billion on its office building loans

Open banking challenges America's cozy lenders' club

US rolls out 'open banking' rules to make sharing financial data easier?

Santander launched US digital bank to cut cost of auto lending

What Wells Fargo's Mike Mayo is asking big banks about

Deutsche Bank backs guidance after profit beat

Barclays boosts profit, ups income outlook

For Barclays, less is more in the investment bank

HSBC's 'simplification' is pretty complicated

Embedded finances adoption in the US surpasses Europe

How embedded finance is redefining financial services and unlocking new revenue streams

Embedded finance is driving the future of B2B commerce

What are the?components of embedded finance?

Banks are finally going to have to compete for your money

Europe's banks under investor pressure to keep earnings growth alive


Wall Street

NYSE Arca equities exchange to extend weekday trading to 22 hours

MarketAxess to buy algo trading provider Pragma

Vicious partner feud roils EF Hutton

Wall Street pros get into position to profit in case Trump wins


Economy

IMF says inflation fight is largely over but wants?of new threats

Policymakers should not exacerbate the risks of deglobalization

The 'sandwich?generation' is stressed out, low on money and short on time

As inflation recedes, global economy needs policy triple pivot

The global economy has proved surprisingly resilient

How might a wider Middle East conflict affect the global economy


Geopolitics

US gasoline prices tied to geopolitics as election nears

Bankers see tepid investments due to uncertainty over US elections, geopolitics

Global markets might be underestimating geopolitical risks, IMF says

AI, geopolitics, climate risk and private credit on bankers' minds at HKMA's global summit

How finance leaders can navigate geopolitical risk

Geopolitical and trade tensions force businesses to review strategies

Geopolitics take center stage in resources

CEO confidence slips amid geopolitical instability and regulatory uncertainty

EU set to choose firm for critical minerals joint buying platform

China tightens its hold on minerals needed to make computer chips


Asset Management

Millennium considers launching first new fund in more than three decades

Blackrock leads opposition to new US limits on bank ownership

RIP John 'Mac' McQuown, the OG quant

How Susquehanna's Jeff Vass mastered the options game

World's largest investment managers see assets hit $128 trillion in return to growth?


Wealth Management??

Wealth management trends to watch in 2025

What does the next decade hold for wealth management?

LPL Board names Rich Steinmeier CEO

Dubai and Abu Dhabi race to lure world's wealth managers

Fidelity data breach confirmed, impacting 77,000 customers


Insurance

Why insurers are losing but still winning big

Reinsurance braces for impact after Hurricane Milton's massive losses - Moody's

Record losses challenge Canada's insurance market

Can insurtech elevate nat cat preparedness?

After three hurricanes in as many months, Florida's property insurance market faces scrutiny


Real Estate???

Commercial property's moment of truth

Existing-home sales sink to a 14 year low

America is primed for a home-renovation resurgence?

Home sales on track for worst year since 1995

September home sales drop to the lowest level since 2010


Payments?

Credit card companies now charging extra fees for paper statements

Buy now, pain later - the looming risks of BNPL

Payments trade groups caution World Bank on digital infrastructure

In search of the fabled walletless day

Cross-border payments 2.0: Faster, cheaper and more transparent?


Venture Capital / Private Equity

Infinity Ventures closes $184 million fintech fund

Silicon Valley's General Catalyst raises $8 billion in global push

Private markets are reserved for the rich. Should a test let?you in?

Chemistry VC launches $350 million fund to support fintech and infrastructure startups

Senators take aim at big private equity landlords as rents soar

Mubadala Capital sees chance to buy up large private equity stakes


AI / ML

How AI-powered financial advice will help you

Beware of AI bureaucrats

The AI power grab

Overcoming modern banking challenges with AI adoption

Intesa Sanpaolo to cut 9,000 jobs in AI-fueled push

Banks must pivot AI initiatives as fatigue sets in

The growing case for investing in AI through private markets

Insurtechs seek to capitalize on AI deployments

How AI is revolutionizing Earth observation

Nutmeg's CIO on the JPMorgan takeover and why AI could revolutionize wealth management

AI can be helpful for FAs - but mostly in-house for now

LLMs and AI at the enterprise

Making it easier to verify an AI model's responses

Evaluating and enhancing probabilistic reasoning in language models

The Amish approach to AI


ESG / Climate Change

'We're running out of time': UN warns of 3.1C temperature rise

Climate change is killing buildings in slow motion

How climate change drives societies apart

Changing the DNA of living things to fight climate change

The energy transition is powered by - wait for it - coal

US is working with allies on mineral marketplace amid energy transition

How the US Energy Department reorganized to champion clean energy

Why hedge funds are betting against the green economy

Climate change is causing a home insurance 'crisis' in these 13 states

Want to save ESG from irrelevance? Financialize it.

UBS bankers under pressure from lawyers to rethink ESG labels

The business case for climate resilience?

State of European pension funds' net zero transition

Asian institutions seen lagging on climate allocations


Bigtech?

NCR Voyix reportedly weighing sale of $3 billion digital banking arm

How big tech is courting big oil

Does Canada have the leverage to regulate big tech?

Why breaking up big tech won't set consumers free


Fintech??

Huntington Bank CFO sees acceleration of fintech venture opportunities

Fintechs' IPO valuations can look beyond Nubank

3 pillars underpinning fintech unicorns

Why the team can make or break a fintech startup

Fintech's introspective moment


Blockchain / Crypto?

Majority of Americans aren't confident in the safety and reliability of cryptocurrency

Why DeFi is he future of wealth management

The crypto betting platform predicting a Trump win

Japan maintain cautious stance on crypto ETFs

Asset tokenization: A beginner's guide to converting RWAs into digital assets

Tokenized private credit: A new digital frontier for RWAs

FSB report warns about the risks of tokenization

Defi based crypto losses to decline this year


Regulation / Compliance??

FCA uses criminal powers in latest crackdown on 'finfluencers'

US moves to 'open banking' with Personal Financial Data Rights final rule

Goldman Sachs and Apple to pay $89 million in US fines over credit card program

Goldman Sachs faces CFPB fine over credit card business

Regulators raise systematic fintech fears


Corporate Venture / Innovation? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

How to avoid strategy myopia

Europe should take a digital leap across its innovation gap

Steve Jobs marketing strategy (is pure genius)

Edge innovation: A creative approach to revealing the unexpected

5 key ways to promote innovation at any company


Personal Development / Leadership?

When you're told you're not strategic enough

What the best leadership teams do right

How to master conflict resolution

There is no leadership without risk

Discipline is destiny: 25 habits that will guarantee you success

12 extraordinary stoic moments

The things you think matter... Don't

The one word that drives senseless and irrational habits


Podcasts / Videos??

In Good Company: with Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures

THIS is strategy: Seth Godin

Simon Sinek: Force yourself to be consistent

GS Exchanges: Battery Ventures' on the power of being stage agnostic in investing

Steve Ells: The Wrong Way to Being Right

Think Fast, Talk Smart: Building your personal brand makes a promise - Are you keeping it?


Speeches / Communications

Gary Gensler, Chairman of SEC: "A feature, not a bug: The important role of capital markets in US"

Howard Marks, Chairman at Oaktree Capital: "Ruminating on Asset Allocation"


Research Reports

GS: Post-election economic policies

BIS: Banks and tech firms in banking

BCG: Corporate and Investment Banking Report 2024

BCG: Sustainability in Private Equity

McK: Unlocking value from technology in banking - An investor lens

McK: Global Payments Report 2024

McK: The next big arenas of competition

Tabb: The State of AI in Capital Markets

Cognizant: Five Strategies for Achieving AI Excellence in ASEAN BFSI

BNY: The AI Voyage of Discovery

GenAI Introduction

BCG: Where's the value in AI

KPMG: Taxation of the digitalized economy

FSB: Financial Stability Implications of Tokenization

BIS: Tokenization in the context of money and other assets

DTCC: Transforming Collateral Management with Digital Assets

CapGemini: From industrial revolution to responsible finance

Accenture: Build your tech and balance your debt

Accenture: Data readiness in the age of GenAI

KPMG: Global Tech Report 2024

Deloitte: Shaping the future of payments 2025

Europe in Search of Growth and Productivity in the Shadow of Geopolitics

BIS: Geopolitics and International Finance

Man Group: Against Apathy

Invesco: Alternative Opportunities - Q4 2024 Update

Verus: Private Equity Outlook

GS: Private Markets Survey

Private Credit: Significant Risk Transfer Market Outlook

FSB: G20 Roadmap for Enhancing Cross-Border Payments

FTPartners: Q3 2024 Fintech Insights

IMF: World Economic Outlook 2024

Microsoft: Digital Defense Report 2024

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