PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

But after last week’s DDoS attack, there is some increased interest in hoarding them, specifically by banks. Some British banks are allegedly stockpiling bitcoin because they know that DDoS hackers will steer clear after being paid off. The math comes out to one per week. The average rate of a new bitcoin ATM?

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Its creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, gave it all of the qualities of cash, but in a digital format: peer-to-peer transfer of a currency in the absence of any intermediary that is pretty much anonymous — only wallet IDs are shared. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. The Crypto Has No Clothes. In concept. The Need for a Balanced View.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Wu said the company had to coordinate with the vendor, figure out international shipping and logistics and navigate the challenges of cross-border payments and foreign currency. “It Different vendors wanted to be paid through different methods and in different currencies. It was a nice crash course early on,” Wu said.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

Like investing in this kind of stuff and I had total life saving for the time of $2,000 and I converted my total life savings of $2,000 into Polish zloty, their currency, went down with my translator to the post office and subscribed to the very first privatization in Poland. So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Switzerland gives bitcoin a hand by way of rail ticket machine sales, an Australian startup banks on the aptly named Dash and Zcash fervor fades. In Switzerland, bitcoin continues to proliferate as a viable currency — most recently with the help of Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), Switzerland’s largest railway company.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

They said at that moment they were selling crypto as it’s gonna replace fiat currency. And they put some Bitcoin on my phone and we walked into Palo Alto to the one coffee shop that accepted Bitcoin as currency. Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. Oh, really?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

And while the NFL and its players are usually the Greatest Show on Turf, this week, the Senate Banking Committee hearing with Wells Fargo’s CEO might have given the league a run for its money but for two reasons. Wells Fargo is far from the first bank to be fined by the CFPB. A Brief Glance At The Story So Far.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2016

Going local means thinking and optimizing for: languages needed, supported currencies, regional logistics and regulation, and then, of course, payment and payments processing. Currency conversions, for example, can throw a wrench into the experience if not properly optimized and that’s where partnerships come into play.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Mastercard started with week with an announcement of how its Mastercard Send product would extend the reach and the speed of Early Warning’s clearXchange P2P network for bank customers with a Mastercard branded debit product. all 14k of them – and have that money deposited into that receiver’s bank account instantly. Iris Scanning.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2016

A few years ago marketplace-based online lending was being hailed as the the signature innovation that was going to upend tradditional bank based lending for consumers and small businesses everywhere. “The math is the math, not matter how much we like London,” noted one marketplace lending exec on the condition of anonymity.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

What is your process like to prepare for — I don’t know if we still use the phrase beauty contest, but that was the old investment banking phrase. Is it the investment bank? MARTIN: You’re working with the banks who are underwriting the deal, the mother and father of the bride. Is it management of the company?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. So we, we became, we went from fixed income and j Aaron to thick fixed income currency and commodities. You had a lot of currency forwards trading, which made se made sense. Made sense.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

He’d teach them about a variety of things going on in the world – science, math, archaeology, literature. His disdain isn’t because money is germ-laden paper passed from who-knows-who doing who-knows-what with it, but because he says it’s the currency of criminals. Don’t have a bank account? If they didn’t, they wouldn’t.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

billion bank accounts worldwide that MoneyGram is able to send money to, which helps Alipay grow and expand its full lifestyle vision of mobile payments. China, he noted, is a tough place for foreigners to work — particularly if the work is moving money around, as currency control is a serious local issue. Not to mention the 2.4

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

BRYANT: And so when this guy told me that we’re, at that time, 10,000 banks, hundreds of thousands of bankers, 100,000 banks. RITHOLTZ: Were there banks in your neighborhood or were you an unbanked … BRYANT: Well, I mean, it was so few you knew where they were, put it that way, right? RITHOLTZ: Okay. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Savita Subramanian, US Equity & Quantitative Strategy, Bank of America , is below. They got bought by Bank America. And I think you will also, with no further ado, my discussion with Bank of America’s Savita. I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. It was at Bank One, at the time. I mean, when you look at that pre, it was, you know, the thought counterparty risk of a bank was solid, right, like that was something.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Now if we only knew the denominator and could do the math to see what those numbers really look like. They manage their downside by having access to SMB performance, given their relationship with them on a number of levels, and debit repayments directly from their bank accounts and at terms that range from 30 to 90 days.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. So the 00:59:37 [Speaker Changed] Currency hedge is very helpful.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. But that was really all the banks that were doing it, 00:09:56 [Speaker Changed] Not it was the banks, but there were a lot of empty buildings. And I, I think that I kind of triangulated on it.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In fact, I was going to be a strategist, financial analyst to work for a bank and write research reports. And the ability to say, gosh, you know, there’s a lot of stuff in fixed income, that for a variety of reasons, central bank owns it, a pension fund owns it, insurance companies own it. RIEDER: Right. It has no value.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Now, this is — now, you’re going to China, China banks. SCHWARTZ: And whose currency is up on the year? SIEGEL: No, it’s more — no, it’s actually because the rise of interest rates has slowed down credit and it’s moved funds out of bank so much, that the liquidity is actually declining in the system.

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