CFO Dive

AUGUST 5, 2025

billion valuation. Dive Insight: New York-based Ramp offers an expense management software platform designed to help businesses optimize their spending and streamline finance operations. billion valuation in a Series E-2 funding round. Published Aug. Last week, the company announced that it raised $500 million at a $22.5

Finance

CFO Strategic Partners

MARCH 28, 2025

Michele Himes is a CPA with more than 25 years of experience in audit and accounting, Michele has consulted with organizations on best practices related to internal controls, benchmarking, budgeting, forecasting, and process improvement. Susan Crisci has more than 25 years of experience in finance and operations.

Auditing

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 29, 2025

We learned everything, you know, across from accounting to auditing to, to tax and valuation. I ended up in what was called the valuation services group, where we valued real estate and businesses either for transactions or for m and a activity. 00:27:56 [Speaker Changed] So let’s talk a little bit about risk management.

Concentration

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

Global Finance

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Additionally, many incumbent firms are restructuring by spinning off their payments divisions into standalone entities to capture higher valuations. Today, they’re dealing with many small counterparties, and they may or may not necessarily have the wherewithal to manage that risk,” she says.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

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. With no further ado, my interview of GCM’s Ken Tropin.

Profit and Loss

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? What’s the valuation?

Investments