Sentences with phrase «big giant bank»

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Fintech is a big opportunity for the Vision Fund, because cash is critical in building out lending and underwriting operations and there are plenty of areas where emerging companies can take on giant slow - moving banks.

Sewing also confronts a decision on scaling back the investment bank — both Deutsche Bank's biggest source of revenue and a perennial laggard against U.S. giants — and winning over long - suffering shareholdbank — both Deutsche Bank's biggest source of revenue and a perennial laggard against U.S. giants — and winning over long - suffering shareholdBank's biggest source of revenue and a perennial laggard against U.S. giants — and winning over long - suffering shareholders.

Concerns surrounding economically sensitive «big data» gleaned from user transactions on Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's businesses may delay the company's planned U.S. listing, banking sources told CNBC this past week, leading some to speculate that Beijing may even exert pressure on the company to list in Hong Kong.

That has forced the giants vendors of the enterprise to develop their own cloud strategies that range from OpenStack to more vertically oriented approaches from the likes of Oracle, which is banking on a big box approach to the cloud.

As ever, these days some of Berkshire's largest holdings are in famous financials; big bank Wells Fargo is the company's No. 2 stock by market value, while credit card giant American Express (NYSE: AXP) isn't far behind at No. 5.

The insurance giant becomes the first of the Big Three life insurers to join the association, which represents the insurance arms of Canada's major banks and various other companies

The most highly criminalized U.S. banks — Countrywide Washington Mutual (WaMu) and their cohorts deepest into fraud in recent years — were absorbed by the five largest U.S. «too big to fail» giants.

If all of this wasn't concerning enough, the very type of derivatives that blew up the giant insurer AIG in 2008 (credit derivatives) are making a big comeback at Citigroup, the recipient of the largest taxpayer bailout of a bank in U.S. history during the 2008 crash.

On the contrary, seven of Europe's biggest banks — Deutsche Bank, HSBC, KBC, Natixis, Rabobank, Société Générale and UniCredit — have hired tech giant IBM to build a blockchain platform to facilitate cross-border trade finance for small businesses.

The Cupertino, Calif. - based technology giant is in talks with several big U.S. banks to develop a digital payments system that would let people send money to each other via their phones, similar to services offered by PayPal and its subsidiary Venmo, according to multiple people familiar with the talks.

Ant Financial Services Group, the Chinese fintech giant, is planning a funding round that could fetch a valuation similar to the world's biggest and oldest banks: The digital payment company is raising as much as $ 5 billion in equity that may value it at more than $ 100 billion, according to Reuters.

Her departure also follows the path forged by Maile Carnegie, the former Google Australia chief executive, who left the internet giant for big four bank ANZ in March.

European stocks finished with gains on Monday, helped by Italian banks after that country's government stepped in to shut down two failed lenders, and as Nestlé SA rallied after a hedge fund snapped up a big stake in the consumer - products giant.

Ed Miliband is promising a «reckoning» with the banks if Labour wins power, with the big five High Street giants forced to give up «significant» numbers of branches to make the industry more competitive.

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Google Play, Amazon Video, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube) In the wake of the ruinous late - 2000s subprime mortgage crisis, the family - owned Chinatown bank Abacus Federal Savings faced harsh legal comeuppance while the well - funded giants were bailed out and deemed too big to fail.

Like giant banks that have discovered that banking is boring and the real money is in gambling, big publishers are now free to focus on the high - risk / high - reward game of finding the next Twilight, Hunger Games, Game of Thrones or Fifty Shades of Grey.

Canadians can buy well managed, low - cost mutual funds directly from firms like Phillips Hager & North, Steadyhand, Mawer and ING Direct, yet all of these are small players compared with the big banks and giants like Investors Group.

Canada's banks climb in rankings as U.S. giants stumble Sean B. Pasternak and Doug Alexander, Bloomberg Published: Monday, March 16, 2009 Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto - Dominion Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia and Bank of Montreal pushed deeper into the ranks of North America's 10 biggest banks after U.S. counterparts stumbled or disappeared in the -LSB-...]

That city may be undergoing the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, but unlike when the big banks and giant financial outfits teetered at the edge of collapse, President Obama has made it clear that this time there will be no billion - dollar federal bailout.

I handle exclusively consumer law and am passionate about standing up for the little guy against the big bad banks — giant monster mega banks, as I sometimes call them — debt collectors and fraudulent car dealerships.»

Tech giants such as Facebook and other big companies, from Bank of America to Caterpillar, have long argued that the 85,000 annual cap on these visas is too low and that they need to bring in more foreign tech workers because they can't find enough highly - skilled American workers.

AMZN -3.20 % is considering whether to use its Alexa virtual assistant to start a person - to - person payments feature, a move that would push the retailing giant into new competition with PayPal Holdings Inc.'s PYPL -4.02 % Venmo and big banks» payments efforts, according to people familiar with its strategy.

Swiss banking giant, UBS, is a big believer in the power of distributed ledgers to redefine finance.

In a very positive move, Banking giant Mizuho has invested in Japan's biggest Bitcoin Exchange.

«Too big to fail» is a phrase often ascribed to the banking industry giants who have become so huge that their failure poses a threat to the entire economy.

Less than a week after the second big US exchange offered Bitcoin futures contracts, reports emerged that banking giant Goldman Sachs is planning...

Banks and multi-nationals and the Major Media Giants are a REALTORS biggest competitor, yet they remain hidden behind layer upon layer of internet companies.

We went from being a big fish in a little pond to swimming in the ocean alongside giant fish with a billion dollars in the bank.