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Why P2P Lending Makes Complete Sense for Startups

Strategy Driven

Since the entire process is technologically driven, it ensures transparency and involves low operating costs and market risk. Here’s why P2P lending is an ideal business financing option for startups and SMEs. Lenders needn’t support 100 percent of the financing; rather, it is pooled by many lenders.

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Still Many Ways to Skin a Capital Cost

Harvard Business Review

As the treasury manager in Verizon's corporate finance department, he saw the research as an opportunity to gain valuable benchmarking information about how the CAPM is currently being used by his fellow practitioners. One of the architects of the survey, Mark Scott, is also one of its beneficiaries.

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How CMOs and CROs Can Be Allies

Harvard Business Review

Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics. But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. CROs can adopt a similar test-and-learn approach to their risk models, which typically see little modification.

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If Crowdfunding is the New Day Trading, Look Out

Harvard Business Review

In an essay earlier this week on the evolution of money and finance, GigaOM founder and venture capitalist Om Malik argued that crowdfunding will be the new day trading, the latest financial innovation to “cut costs and [drive] wider participation in a previously closed and clubby market.” Not everyone agrees.

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3 Emerging Market Risks Companies Should Watch for in 2018

Harvard Business Review

They devote far more time to internal execution and competitive risks than to external risks that can change the playing field. This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. Top leaders tend to focus more on status updates than on contingency planning.