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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business Review

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. New digital entrants have spotted the market opportunity created by these dynamics, and the result is an explosion in online lending to SMEs from fintech startups. Banks’ cost of capital is typically 50 basis points or less.

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Why Europe's Carbon Woes Matter to the Whole World

Harvard Business Review

Europe''s $100 billion carbon market, an innovative force in the powerful carbon-reduction approach known as cap and trade, has ceased to function the way it''s supposed to. And it''s all because of a failure of political will in Europe to override the market''s built-in lack of flexibility and fix the imbalance between supply and demand.

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