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What Walmart’s Resurgence Means For Retail And The “Pays”

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He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that uses complicated math formulas to communicate. Instead of building its own hardware, Walmart Pay is leveraging Google’s platform to drive its voice-activated commerce channel forward. Will Wallets Drive the Future of Retail?

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Transcript: Lynn Martin

Barry Ritholtz

So I tend to view computer coding not that dissimilar to communicating in a foreign language. A lot of times you’re learning your French, Spanish to communicate with someone in a different country. When you’re learning computer coding, you’re just learning how to communicate with a machine.

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Start/Stop Cycle: Modern-Day Money Laundering And What To Do About It

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However, that can lead to a transaction laundering ring’s undoing, says Frechtling, because the weak points of legitimate businesses are well-known and can be leveraged to topple an evil enterprise. Finally, make a point of consistent internal communication. Communicate perpetually, whenever there is a suspicious event.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. There was XO Communication and McLeod.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Barry Ritholtz

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. For various reasons.

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Dropping A B/D License Without Dropping Current B/D Platform

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And the reason that I liked that one, because I’ve sold very few VAs in my career, but I could do the math on how that rider worked on a piece of legal paper and my calculator. And that is a very simple, it’s easy to communicate, and it’s very clear. Author: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces. And I also prefer simple.

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Is Advisor Technology Making Planning Faster… Or Better?

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As while advisors certainly can leverage technology to create faster and more efficient back-office processes that help scale a growing practice, the key point is that new technology tools can also help advisors engage in better conversations through innovative presentation tools (e.g., Leverage the back office to the sky. Carl: Yeah.