PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Regardless, it’s an interesting data point for why the country’s oldest (and one of the world’s largest) CPGs – with a market cap of $34 billion – might be willing to wager at least some part of its future on a five-year-old company with $100 million in sales that sells bulk food online. From Betty Crocker to Boxed. At $627 billion , the U.S.

Sales 54

Sales Concentration Marketing Manufacturing 54

PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2016

When it was launched, MCX claimed that its merchant membership collectively drove $1 trillion in sales annually. Members hoped that the scheme would be attractive enough to consumers that many of them would shift away from what they were using in the store – branded plastic cards – to this mobile payments scheme.

Concentration 42

Concentration Leverage Technology Sales 42

PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

Utilizing unique feedback from the marketplace and our Columbus pilot, MCX has made a decision to concentrate more heavily in the immediate term on other aspects of our business, including working with financial institutions, like our partnership with Chase, to enable and scale mobile payment solutions.

Invoicing 43

Invoicing Concentration Reconciliations Accounting 43

PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

Two years after the successful sale of that broken laser pointer, Omidyar raised $6.7 In August of 2001, The Industry Standard published a piece describing the firm as “ unstoppable ,” given its power as a platform that simply facilitated the sale of goods between buyers and sellers without taking possession of any inventory.

Advertising 51

Advertising Retail Startups eCommerce 51

PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

After you take into account both who has adopted the service, and how often people who have adopted it use it, the numbers have barely moved over 20 months: roughly speaking, only one person in 20 who have the service use it when they can, 19 out of 20 people who have the service don’t even bother. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

Numbers 66

Numbers Concentration Technology Retail 66

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

From advisors who earn commissions from the sales of financial products to fee-only investment advisors who charge based on client assets under management, the value advisors provide to their clients has often been centered on investment management. leveraging trusts when appropriate, and selecting the optimal assets for charitable giving.

Tax Planning 130

Tax Planning Planning Investments Profit and Loss 130

CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Farhaan discusses the critical aspects of his role, emphasising the shift from traditional accounting to strategic and operational involvement across business sectors. Farhan holds a BCom and a number of postgraduate diplomas in accounting from the University of Johannesburg. Farhaan: We speak of CFOs as traditional accountants.

CFO 52

CFO Leadership Accounting Finance 52

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Sales & Marketing. Because of the structure of the tax code, there are often ‘add-on’ effects created by adding or subtracting income – and these effects aren’t accounted for when simply looking at one’s tax bracket. In the end, finding the ‘true’ marginal rate of the conversion (i.e.,

Planning 130

Planning Benchmarking Profit and Loss Communication 130

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The Cole Memo , issued in 2013 by the Department of Justice, lays out the guidelines under which financial institutions can offer compliant financial services (like bank accounts) to businesses operating dispensaries in states where it is legal to sell medicinal and/or recreational marijuana. The Power Of Transparency.

Concentration 47

Concentration Accounting Banking Currencies 47

PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

The reports that have flooded the tech cyber airwaves since Friday have more or less focused on that as its intended killer app — along with the ability to stream video from Amazon Prime in the kitchen while making dinner or, as one news account suggested, asking Amazon’s Alexa to show the kids what a real kid looks like.

Retail 49

Retail Profit and Loss Sales Manufacturing 49

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The concentration of merchants with Pay with Amazon was one of the best-kept secrets in payments — well, until that report. The biggest challenge when selling insurance — or even subscriptions, Gauthier notes — actually comes right at the outset, in account creation. People who buy online have an account on Amazon,” Gautier noted.

Concentration 46

Concentration Accounting Numbers Retail 46

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.”

Restructuring 130

Restructuring Planning Accounting Marketing 130

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

So, my prior broker dealer, it was Fortune 100 company, they have tremendous obviously philosophies in place on how they get their sales force to produce amazing results. He did an immense number of sales, and had cultivated a huge number of relationships. Matthew: Yeah. The culture was very product driven. And was that possible?

Planning 130

Planning Communication Profit and Loss Education 130

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

KRISTEN BITTERLY MICHELL, HEAD OF NORTH AMERICAN INVESTMENTS, CITI GLOBAL WEALTH: It’s really interesting because I’m not someone that you would think would be the typical profile to end up in capital markets or — or sales and trading. BITTERLY MICHELL: Not in leveraged, no, not at all, give more …. BITTERLY MICHELL: Sure.

Investments 114

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 114

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

So if it’s, for example, a strategy tracking a Nasdaq Index, or an S&P, or a MSCI, typically, you leverage an index that is already available through the index providers. I mean, I do think there is a market for leverage and inverse ETFs out there. Tell us a little bit about what that process is like. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

Investments 60

Investments Marketing Numbers Risk Management 60

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

Marketing 130

Marketing Investments Auditing Restructuring 130

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

Investments 100

Investments Valuation Auditing Restructuring 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Their sales pitch was very convincing. Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure. As a result, bitcoin mining is concentrated in two countries : China, with 60 percent, and Georgia , with 15 percent of bitcoin processing power. He leveraged existing infrastructure and built on top of it.

Currencies 71

Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Investments 71

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Bitcoin’s processing operation is highly concentrated within a handful of miners in China — which is getting more concentrated now, since the price of bitcoin has crashed and fewer players can afford to keep the lights on (literally, since bitcoin processing requires a massive amount of electricity). The Talk Of The Blockchain Tech.

Currencies 85

Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Leverage 85

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

And that’s really what was the genesis for, you know, our sale to Carlyle. So you would see pretty high concentrations of, you know, $100 million, $200 million, $300 million, all essentially sitting on a single balance sheet of the bank. KENCEL: So, now, leverage is lower. You should have a platform there. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 56

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Finance Investments Banking 56

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The innovations that are emerging are things like QR or printed barcodes that can instantly turn a piece of paper into a point-of-sale [POS] device,” Sondhi explained. Markets like Australia, which has a highly concentrated banking and retail system, make ignition easier. It’s also a growing market.

Banking 75

Banking Concentration Marketing Communication 75

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

In 2021, that was $523 billion worth of sales, which accounted for nearly 40 percent of South Korea’s semiconductor exports. Japan’s chip equipment- and material-makers would be hit hard as its global players are concentrated in those areas, and exports of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China have grown in recent years.

Manufacturing 100

Manufacturing Economics Investments Securities 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

That newfound competition gave European merchants the ability to become tough negotiators with Bazaar sellers on price and delivery, often slow-rolling the sale of raw materials to the sellers who needed them to produce items sold in the Bazaar. Fewer buyers meant fewer sales for merchants. Apps as commerce gateways have stalled too.

Sales 51

Sales Retail Advertising Leverage 51

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

That newfound competition gave European merchants the ability to become tough negotiators with Bazaar sellers on price and delivery, often slow-rolling the sale of raw materials to the sellers who needed them to produce items sold in the Bazaar. Fewer buyers meant fewer sales for merchants. Apps as commerce gateways have stalled too.

Sales 44

Sales Retail Advertising Leverage 44

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

This could be explained by several factors including insufficient concentration, improper formulation and/or amount of PVP-I, inadequate duration of exposure, inappropriate method of administration, and mucociliary clearance of PVP-I from the nasal cavity. The Bezzle: “Fashion NFTs Total $245 Million In Sales. As aforementioned, 0.45–10%

Concentration 130

Concentration Economics Manufacturing Numbers 130