2020-03-24
Answer: No
(This post borrows heavily from the ideas of my co author, Ugo Panizza, of the international economics department of the Graduate Institute in Geneva).
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2020-03-24
The bank has asked managers review job postings and pull listings for roles that don’t need to be filled immediately, according to people familiar with the matter.
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2020-03-24
The COVID-19 crisis is forcing many banks to hold their spring shareholder meetings online only.
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2020-03-24
Damon Silvers, the AFL-CIO's Policy Director and former Vice-Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, has a really important column about the oversight lessons from the 2008 bailout.
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2020-03-24
A debt collection moratorium operates as float, which is needed to buy time until the relief checks start flowing. In other words, a debt collection moratorium is a form of stimulus.
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2020-03-24
The legislation sponsored by Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, would require banks to offer the accounts so that consumers could easily access cornonavirus relief funds without turning to high-cost check cashers.
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2020-03-24
With economists fearing high unemployment stemming from the pandemic, the housing finance system is grappling with how it will recoup lost revenue from delinquencies, forbearance plans and other tremors.
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2020-03-24
Financial services personnel were among critical infrastructure groups that the Department of Homeland Security said were crucial for “public health and safety as well as community well-being” during the pandemic.
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2020-03-24
The mobile-only bank offers many standard neobank features and some added payment options.
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2020-03-24
If the new accounting standard poses too many risks during an economic crisis, then it's probably not a good idea at all.
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2020-03-24
Anand Talwar, deposits and consumer strategy executive at Ally Bank, and Jody Bhagat, president of the Americas for Personetics, explain how their technology collaboration has evolved from a virtual assistant to customized, real-time "insights" fo
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2020-03-24
The Fed announced several new lending facilities and virtually “unlimited” purchases of Treasury bonds; Ana Botín will donate the money to a coronavirus fund.
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2020-03-23
There comes a point in your mandatory two-week quarantine from covid-19 when you realize that working from home isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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2020-03-23
Regulators' decision to delay reporting for troubled-debt restructurings should allow banks and credit unions to be more nimble modifying loans impaired by the coronavirus outbreak.
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