"Question 3: How Can NNOX Claim All-In-One Imaging?
In an interview, Ran Poliakine asserted that “because it’s digital, it’s multispectral."
At what point do we go after banks for doing IPOs based on such bullshit!?
The lack of scientific culture is terrible and very costly. Banks involved in such deals should be forced to have genuine independent scientific experts.
The verification process should not only be a legal box ticking exercise using safe harbour rules to protect any absurd forecast; it should involve a scientific backup of any such claims.
If you tell a lawyer during the verification process "it works because it's multispectral" he will just look bewildered and say "err ok if you say so."
If you tell it to a mathematician or physicist, he'll just laugh and say "spare me the bullshit and explain me for real"
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BNP has very good notes on the US elections and how to trade them. They are mostly focused on timing and the info you should focus on. Here's my summary
Before the elections
Apart from betting markets / polls, a source of info is mail-in ballot statistics.
Early voting doesn’t favor the Dems as much as 2020 (but Covid).
Before the elections
Some states - notably Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan North Carolina - start counting on Nov 5th. They are important states so could provide info.
Maybe you’ve seen the crazy price action on Close Brothers last Friday or heard about the Hopcraft appeal court ruling and its impact for UK banks.
What is it about?
I’ll try to explain why it’s important but not Armageddon.
This is all about getting financing when you buy a car, more precisely getting so-called “Point of sale” financing, i.e. the car dealer acts as broker for the actual bank or finance company providing the loan.
Back in 2021 the FCA banned a dubious practice: the broker’s fee was higher if the loan rate was higher, i.e. there was an incentive to propose a bad client deal. The Financial Ombudsman Service ruled (on pre-ban sales) with an indication of how redress should be calculated.
Commercial real estate lending is one of the biggest risks to the banking sector (hello, NYCB ?) – so it’s crucial that banks have an accurate assessment of the value of the collateral they have. The ECB did an inspection on this recently, and the results are hilarious. Thread.
For reference, the fair value of the collateral should be this
But what do banks really do? It's the horror museum.
For those of you trying to make sense of that story, here’s a recap. It’s wild.
RBI is a large Austrian bank formerly making 50% of its profits in Russia. After Russia invaded Ukraine, what happens to this biz is obviously their key financial, strategic and political question
Everyone in the “West” is pushing for a full exit but it’s not that easy because there’s also Russian law, RBI staff on the ground in Russia, clients, etc., no easy buyer to find and some argue selling for à like SG did is just handing out money to Putin’s cronies.
In Feb 2023 things start getting a bit awkward for RBI: it receives a request for information from OFAC – but we didn't really get to know what it was about.
What's going to be the costs of the Crowdstrike outage for the insurance industry? Impossible to know precisely but Mediobanca has a nice breakdown explaining why it won't be massive.
There are 3 areas of losses:
- cancelled flights
- Business interruption
- Cyber policies
1/n
Cancelled flights: reports are approx 5000 flights cancelled per day, still ongoing (backlog). That's big but 2010 Icelandic volcano had 100k cancelations ut MunRe explained the insured losses were low munichre.com/en/company/med…
BI for a week is not big. For example Swiss Re paid 1.5bn for the entire Covid lockdown. This is not even remotely the same