Global Finance

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Mansur announced plans to hike the benchmark rate by 50 basis points to 9%, and stated that rates would hit 10% within the coming months. In September, the PBoC cut its benchmark seven-day interest rate by 20 basis points to 1.5% Mansur to be central bank governor. Negotiations were opened, with the IMF agreeing to supplement a $4.7

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Ryan Hagemann, former senior policy fellow at the International Center for Law and Economics, will co-direct the forum with Jean-Marc Leclerc, currently the vice chairman for the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union’s Digital Economy Committee.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It encompasses environmental, social, and economic dimensions and involves the responsible use of resources, reducing waste and pollution, promoting social equity, and ensuring economic viability over the long term,” she put forward. ESG reporting will continue to change and be refined, given the challenges of sustainability goals.

Leadership 98

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CFO Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The latter, for example, is an offering that Bloomberg says can “ bring the full potential of AI to the financial domain ” and create entirely new workflows, economic analyses and financial benchmarks for its customers. 1] Robert Half and Protiviti are members of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 115

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CFA Institute

JANUARY 31, 2019

What is Ensemble Active Management (EAM) and how can it help active managers outperform their benchmarks after fees?

Benchmarking 52

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Future CFO

AUGUST 14, 2023

“This reflects both the rapid growth of public awareness and usage of generative AI tools, as well as the breadth of potential use cases, and therefore potential risks, that these tools engender.” Flawed financial planning assumptions.

Concentration 52

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 29, 2025

You get a bachelor’s in economics from Colgate and then an MBA in finance from NYU Stern. I was an economics and English major. And you know, at the end of the day, un unless we have investment guidelines or restrictions from clients, you know, we seek alpha with a bit of ag agnosticism to both the benchmark and the region.

Concentration 52

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Embark With Us

MARCH 26, 2025

The Competitiveness Compass was designed to set strategic priorities and guide the EU’s policy agenda over the next five years with a focus on boosting the region’s long-term competitiveness in the face of increasing global economic pressures.

Compliance 52

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Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

APRIL 16, 2025

Initiate Supply Chain Risk Assessment Policy and Procedures When your third-party risk management (TPRM) team needs you to provide a financial risk analysis of a supplier or other counterparty, the operating and delivery parameters need to be aligned to accommodate everybody involved.

Accounts Payable 52

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Spreadym

JUNE 8, 2023

Forecasts can be short-term or long-term and are usually based on assumptions about factors like market conditions, customer behavior, economic trends, and internal capabilities. They help organizations anticipate potential risks, identify opportunities, and make informed decisions about resource allocation and strategic planning.

Forecasting 52

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. How does this impact global trade and other economic factors?

Profit and Loss 122

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. And that led her to various jobs at Wasserstein Perella McKinsey’s Asset Management Group.

Marketing 69

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Global Finance

MAY 8, 2024

The move aligns UOB, which also won the Best Bank in Singapore, with ASEAN’s rise as an economic powerhouse, rapidly transformed via megatrends like supply chain diversification, digitalization and investments in net-zero transitions and a rising middle class. Its expansion into the region via the $5 billion Singapore dollars (about $3.7

Banking 52

Banking Profit and Loss Construction Retail 52

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Elizabeth Burton : I think it’s because I went into risk management straight out school on the risk side of fund to funds and, and various other industries. So I actually went and worked in economics, I was an econometrician. So, so let’s talk a little bit about risk management. Absolutely.

Investments 59

Investments Math Risk Management Benchmarking 59

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: If the S&P is your benchmark, which it isn’t for these pools of capital. RITHOLTZ: What should be their benchmark? So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. So what do you use for a benchmark? 14, 15% a year? RITHOLTZ: Right.

Investments 52

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. And then again, all of our economic students are like, no, there’s the National …. It was at Bank One, at the time.

Investments 119

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. They create the benchmark. DAVIS: A big part of it is really around when there’s more complicated corporate actions that are happening that entail a level of risk. ” And that’s a risk decision that you have to make.

Investments 52

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 6, 2025

And risk is not about not losing money. Risk management is not about not losing money. Risk management is about unexpectedly losing money. But risk management is always about understanding what could go wrong and quantifying what could go wrong. Worst case downside. Exactly right.

Profit and Loss 59

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And they also have a unique approach to feeds when they’re generating alpha, when they’re outperforming their benchmark, they take a performance fee. I want to get into that before we start talking about asset management. What made you add economics to your, to your graduate degree? Risk management.

Investments 52

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CFO Dive

JUNE 16, 2025

growth this year as inflation persists above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, the National Association for Business Economics said Monday, citing a survey of forecasters. growth this year as inflation persists above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, the National Association for Business Economics said Monday, citing a survey of forecasters.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The country’s central bank has raised its benchmark lending rate to 24 percent from 17.75 That dampens economic activity, the cost of credit goes up and that affects interest rates in countries beyond Turkey.”. Risk Management. The latest news comes from Turkey. Netflix Example. The general remedy?

Economics 46

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 14, 2025

Last time you were on a panel, we were talking about the rise of, of some emerging managers, including yourself. You graduate with a bachelor’s in economics. So that is a big focus and if you think about what risk managers would do at a casino, it’s the same thing.

Investments 59

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. We dive deep into all sorts of things about running businesses, managing risk, and then when we began talking about his public sector service, we went deep into the Tax Cuts and Job Act of 2017.

Marketing 112

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