Global Finance

JUNE 16, 2025

Those numbers reflect in part the increasingly tense relations between mainland China, the regional behemoth, and the US, but also Malaysia’s common-law heritage, educated, English-speaking workforce, and significantly lower costs compared with its smaller neighbor, Singapore. billion (about US$88.2 year-on-year growth in investment.

Leverage

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 1, 2025

Oh yeah, no, it was, it was like they, they didn’t want to, and I, of course was going through communications as officials and they never respond properly, but his name was Ron Walters. He didn’t advertise himself. 00:32:02 [Speaker Changed] First of all, that that chapter made me cry, number one. Oh, really?

Investments

CFO Dive

JUNE 24, 2025

The breaches resulted in a number of lawsuits that were eventually combined into a single class action complaint before Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The judge has scheduled a Dec. 3 hearing to consider the settlement for final approval, according to a Friday order. or its subsidiaries.

CFO

Bramasol

JULY 7, 2025

M&A deals require better data consolidation to help companies create more personalized content recommendations and advertising opportunities based on a larger pool of customer data. This has impacted how media companies recognize revenue from subscriptions, pay-per-view content, and advertising.

SAP

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 7, 2022

For investment advisers looking to attract prospective clients, advertising the performance of their investment strategies would be a logical way to market their services (at least if they had strong historical returns!). Two final prohibitions under the Marketing Rule include restrictions on the use of predecessor performance (e.g.,

Advertising

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

There’s a (slowly) growing push among retailers, brands and even politicians to make advertising campaigns as true and transparent as possible. We want to lend our voice and the support of the ModCloth community to this movement to stop the extreme and harmful photoshopping of women in advertisements.”.

Advertising

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

In its ongoing attempts to fix its privacy standards, Facebook will no longer use phone numbers to determine who one sees on their “people you may know” list, according to Reuters. He added that, from now on, no one who signs up for Facebook will have their phone number connected to their friend suggestions.

Numbers

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a move that lets users place and get phone calls through their Alexa gadgets, Amazon is launching a new collaboration with AT&T that will enable consumers to connect their phone numbers with their Alexa accounts, The Verge reported. And, with Amazon’s current Away Mode turned on, calls can be temporarily disabled.

Numbers

CFO News Room

JANUARY 27, 2023

By switching to 501(c)(6) nonprofit status, the new CFP Board of Standards will have expanded abilities to advance the planning profession through lobbying and more targeted advertising messages to grow the ranks of CFP professionals.

Nonprofit

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Twilio — Shares tumbled 16% after the cloud communications software maker issued a weaker-than-expected revenue forecast for the fourth quarter, despite an otherwise strong third-quarter report. Carvana said it’s seeking to decrease expenses given the macro backdrop, and declined to give a 2023 quantitative outlook. Warner Bros.

Restructuring

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Advertisers will lose a projected $5.8 Ad fraud’s prevalence is largely due to two factors: The lack of regulation and the sheer complexity and volume of online advertising. Dishonest publishers may spoof clicks to force advertisers to pay additional fees, or hackers could hijack an advertising slot to generate revenue for themselves.

Advertising

Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” - this week’s edition kicks off with the news that FINRA has issued a proposal to allow broker-dealers to advertise hypothetical performance data to institutional and high-net-worth investors, which would bring the rules for broker-dealers largely in line with (..)

Communication

Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Which means that while many fee-only RIAs use the reduced conflicts that come with the fee-only model (as opposed to firms that receive compensation from commissions and other sources) as a key marketing talking point, the fact remains that being truly 'conflict free' is nearly impossible and such claims (which are hard to substantiate) appear to be (..)

Compliance

PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

To that end, the company is extending a total of $100 million in cash, as well as credits for advertising, to a maximum of 30,000 eligible small businesses. The grant program will help businesses with any number of issues – rent, operations, communications – and Facebook’s business hub has resources available now.

Communication

Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 17, 2024

Further, advisers can potentially reduce the number of negative reviews received by ensuring that prospect and client relationships that do not work out (e.g., Next , by taking a proactive approach to reinforcing where they add value (e.g., when a prospect does not meet the firm’s asset minimum) are handled respectfully (e.g.,

Marketing

Nerd's Eye View

JULY 26, 2024

Also in industry news this week: While the number of RIA M&A deals has not surged in 2024, the average size of deals has increased, demonstrating interest from (often private-equity-backed) firms in pursuing larger targets Off-channel communication tops the list of concerns amongst RIA compliance professionals, with advertising and marketing coming (..)

Benchmarking

Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 27, 2023

By switching to 501(c)(6) nonprofit status, the new CFP Board of Standards will have expanded abilities to advance the planning profession through lobbying and more targeted advertising messages to grow the ranks of CFP professionals.

Nonprofit

Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 27, 2023

These responsibilities also extend to the use of any technology used in the process of giving advice: A recommendation made with the aid of technology still needs to be in the client's best interests, while the technology also needs to carry out any function as it's described in the advisor's marketing materials and client communications.

Communication

PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

Last week it announced that it is offering its proprietary software solutions to a limited number of dealership groups that have multiple stores shut down or operations significantly impacted by the nationwide social distancing orders. Shift has adapted its model to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Marketing

PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

The firm offers “Internet value-added services” per the announcement, encompassing online advertising, digital entertainment and FinTech as well as cloud services to users. Its communication platforms encompass WeChat, QQ and Weixin. Its number of American customers jumped to 4.4

Entertainment

Nerd's Eye View

JULY 31, 2024

Which means the firm will need to provide records of holdings and transactions for each of its clients (which may require some training and practice for employees to be able to quickly pull the needed data from the firm's custodian), as well as archived client communications and any advertisements produced by the firm.

Auditing

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

This marked the first P2P payments system within a communication platform. Advertisers can select which audiences they want to target and when. Anyone 22 or older will not be able to communicate with other users, but it is unclear how Facebook will stop older users from joining in. Kenya has 5.3 Facebook Pleases Everyone.

Advertising

PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2020

Facebook is under fire in a new set of documents in a lawsuit, which allege the company knew for years that paid advertising services on the site were exaggerating and distorting the number of people who would see the ads, according to a report by the Financial Times. billion active users per month at the end of last year.

Advertising

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Amazon is forecast to reach the number three spot among sellers of digital ads in the U.S. That would put the eCommerce giant ahead of Verizon Communication’s Oath and Microsoft, although it is still far behind Google and Facebook , noted the report. this year, according to market research firm eMarketer.

Advertising

CFO Thought Leader

JUNE 18, 2024

Fluent in three languages, he found that his experience at Berlitz broadened his perspective and honed his communication skills. Today, if a a publisher sells $1 worth of advertising inventory, they’re getting only 20 to 30 cents in their own pocket. Today, more than 70% of the Internet is blind to advertisers.

CFO

Nerd's Eye View

JULY 31, 2024

Which means the firm will need to provide records of holdings and transactions for each of its clients (which may require some training and practice for employees to be able to quickly pull the needed data from the firm's custodian), as well as archived client communications and any advertisements produced by the firm.

Compliance

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

In fairness, not all Dirty Lemon drinks have charcoal in them – though it is their most popular product, as it is advertised to “improve digestion, stimulate liver function and gently cleanse your system of impurities,” according to the Dirty Lemon website. Texting, Normandin noted, is “the most ubiquitous form of communication on Earth.”

Advertising

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s also one of the most prevalent, with advertisers expected to lose more than $5.8 It would be easy to blame bad actors, but ad fraud is also perpetrated by dishonest publishers using false clicks and stacked ads to take advantage of advertisers. Fraud takes many forms, from account takeover attacks to identity theft. AI Solutions.

Advertising

PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2018

Verizon Communications’ Oath Inc. It’s part of an effort to get Oath’s content and partners’ ads in front of the growing number of people watching shows on mobile devices, Oath’s chief executive officer, Tim Armstrong, told Reuters. The plan is for the partnership to eventually extend outside the country.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 24, 2022

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Investments

PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2019

Vietnam currently has 65 million social network accounts, a 30 percent increase from last year, according to data from Communications and Information Minister Nguyen Manh Hung, the report stated. million active Facebook users in 2018, and that number is expected to rise to more than 45 million this year.

Entertainment

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The consumer loans have come under criticism for exaggerated advertising and aggressive debt collection. In addition, all-in interest rates, which include upfront fees charged for loans, must be within the legally allowed annualized interest rate for loans, and terms and conditions of loans must be clearly communicated to borrowers.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

With each decade, you can see the effect of regional and sector performance in the previous decade; the 1990 list is dominated by Japanese stocks, reflecting the rise of Japanese equities in the 1980s, and the 2000 list by technology and communication companies, benefiting from the dot-com boom.

Valuation

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

3), the numbers put up by the players on the field will pale in comparison to the dollars that advertisers, sports enthusiasts, snack food aficionados and brands will put up, just so they can be part of America’s largest television viewing event. That aside, whatever drama goes down on the gridiron on Sunday (Feb. The Price Of Airtime.

Advertising

PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

For fans of retail or marketing history — or just fans of how people communicated in the past — reading old magazine and newspaper advertisement from, say, before the 1960s can be fun and illuminating. Victory achieved — score one for visual search.

Retail

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Merchants will be turning on their near-field communication technologies, and accepting tap-and-pay at the terminal. merchants and acceptance for Mastercard , said that 60 percent of Mastercard’s card-present volume originates at merchants that are now contactless-enabled, and the company expects to see these numbers increase.

Sales

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Vice ) • At Fidelity, AI Provides Extra Eyes to Spot Red Flags : The artificial intelligence application Saifr uses natural language processing to help portfolio managers, sales and other staff review public-facing communication. He is the author of the new book, “ Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall.”

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