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How Can the Insurance Industry Lead Sustainable Initiatives and Mitigate Climate-Related Risks?

The Fintech Times

“Launched in 2012, the UN Environment Programme’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative (PSI) acts as a framework for the industry to tackle ESG risks and opportunities. ” The post How Can the Insurance Industry Lead Sustainable Initiatives and Mitigate Climate-Related Risks?

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Startup Partially Funded By Ashton Kutcher Can’t Pay Staff

PYMNTS

Neighborly was launched in 2012 as a community investment marketplace to connect investors to local projects via municipal bonds in smaller increments. Ashton Kutcher at Sound Ventures, Maven Ventures and Stanford University all participated in early funding. Employees will be compensated for the prior week’s work, he said.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

Underwriting an initial public offering (IPO) is a highly profitable business for an investment bank. For this work, the underwriting bank can make tens of millions from an IPO — whether or not the stock performs well. The lingering effects from the Covid-19 pandemic have pushed expected underwriting IPO revenue to just 7.5%

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Analyzing The Private Market Investment Strategies of P&C Insurers

CB Insights

The same group completed fewer than 25 investments in aggregate between 2012 and 2014. Here are a few takeaways from analyzing the graph below, which encompasses over 125 deals: Of the 12 P&C insurers analyzed, Ping An and AXA have been the most active since 2012. Number of investments (since 2012): 2. Allianz Ventures.

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Affirm’s Levchin On Changing The Consumer Credit Conversation

PYMNTS

Levchin said that core principal, giving consumers choice and control, was at the heart of the Affirm value proposition when it first launched in 2012. The consumer’s ability to repay is a key input to how Affirm makes those product-by-product underwriting decisions. Making The Credit Conversation About Choice.

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Analyzing The Private Market Investment Strategies of P&C Insurers

CB Insights

The same group completed 20 investments in aggregate between 2012 and 2014. Here are a few takeaways from analyzing the graph below, which encompasses over 125 deals: Of the 12 P&C insurers analyzed, Ping An, AmFam, and USAA have been the most active since 2012. Number of investments (since 2012): 3. in funding. XL Innovate.

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AltFin’s Bumpy Ride Into An Uncertain 2019

PYMNTS

According to the PYMNTS/Unifund Financial Invisibles Report , 81 percent of participants said their financial situations have either remained stable or improved since last year, and the number of consumers seriously delinquent on debt dropped 11 percent between Q4 2017 and Q2 2018. percent since 2012. That amounts to $13.2