Princeton Office of Finance Appoints Minority-Owned Asset Management Firm. Will Others Follow Suit? – Higher Education – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

July 21, 2021 | : Princeton University’s Office of Finance and Treasury signaled its commitment to working with minority-owned financial firms this week when it announced that it had entrusted Ramirez Asset Management of New York, part of the oldest Hispanic investment firm in the U.S., with investing 50% of its latest bond proceeds. After […]
Western Alliance Bank Unveils Franchise Finance Team to Focus on Restaurant Industry – QSR magazine
Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, one of the country’s top-performing banking companies, welcomes a new Franchise Finance group that will focus on building relationships with leading restaurant operators and franchisees across the nation. The team of veteran bankers focused solely on the restaurant finance market joins Western Alliance Bank’s growing set of specialized banking groups […]
Bitcoin price hits $32K but derivatives metrics still show signs of weakness – Cointelegraph
There’s no doubt that the last couple of months have been bearish for Bitcoin (BTC), but throughout this entire period, derivatives indicators have been relatively neutral. This could be because cryptocurrencies have a strong track record of volatility, and even 55% corrections from all-time highs are expected. After two months of struggling to sustain the […]
Bitcoin’s 50% Drop From Peak Hammers Crypto Loans, Derivatives – Yahoo Finance
(Bloomberg) — The 2021 Bitcoin bubble is deflating and hitting a $1.3 trillion industry built on to-the-moon speculation and rampant leverage. The damage from the latest selloff is spreading across the world of crypto loans, options and futures — wiping out money-spinning strategies from the famous basis trade to yield farming. Even with Wednesday’s rebound, […]
Finance Chiefs Are Still Trying to Replace Excel With New Tools – The Wall Street Journal

Finance chiefs are still trying to get employees to move away from Microsoft Excel, the ubiquitous spreadsheet program loved and loathed by accounting professionals. While many still see it as a helpful tool, some CFOs say finance teams rely on it too much, often for tasks that Excel isn’t well-suited to handle. That can lead […]