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The Race to Dominate Stablecoins

Harvard Business Review

Stablecoins — cryptocurrencies pegged to an external currency — have the potential to rewire the global financial system, and expose banking and finance to new digital competition. The outcome will be consequential not only for financial institutions but for any company and digital platform that relies on money movement at scale.

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How Boards And Management Should Prepare For Long-Term High Interest Rates

Chief Executive

A few things boards might consider as interest rates reach their peak: What should boards do as banks tighten their lending to companies? Strategy may also need to adjust for customers scaling back on purchases because making higher interest rate payments have hurt their cash flow. Should expansion plans be put on hold or scaled back?

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SAMRIDH: Using Blended Finance Toward Quality Health Care in India

UVA Darden

multiple challenges limit their ability to scale up, including lack of capital, market access, regulatory roadblocks and market inefficiencies. IndusInd Bank. SAMRIDH is paving the way to create a conducive ecosystem for scaling-up market-based health care solutions targeted to improve health care services for vulnerable communities.

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Rethinking What’s Next: Lessons Learned from the SVB Collapse 

Kotter Inc.

The root cause of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank continues to dominate headlines. In just the last two years there has been a worldwide pandemic, disruption in global supply chains, war in Ukraine, systemic labor shortage, runaway inflation, rising interest rates, a looming recession, and now a crisis of confidence in the banking system.

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The Swedbank Outage shows that Change Controls don't work

High Scalability

Either way I’m sure the whole episode will have been a big wake up call for the people at the bank whose job it is to ensure adequate risk and change controls. ” But is the bank safe though? That’s a lot of money to you and me, but probably didn’t impact their bottom line very much. ” Gulp.

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Outcomes-Based Financing: The Quality Education India Development Impact Bond

UVA Darden

The initiative was a pioneering collaboration between leaders from across private and philanthropic sectors to scale up proven interventions to improve learning outcomes of students, as well as address the critical gap in financing by unlocking new funding and making existing funding work better. For example, Washington, D.C.,

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Why Is Cash Flow Important To Survive In Our Tough Business Climate?

Growth Institute

You might believe that keeping those measures in check will help you scale your business even during these difficult times. Cash flow is the movement of money in all your business’s bank accounts during a given period or everything transferred in and out of your accounts. What Is Cash Flow? Long-term debt and how it has changed.