E78 Partners

JUNE 16, 2025

Whether it is poor post-close planning, misjudged synergy estimates, or ineffective communication across teams, failure tends to follow patterns. Talent Disruption and Culture Clash: Employee turnover, role confusion, and resistance to change often follow poorly communicated or poorly executed transitions. eBay and Skype (2005) – $2.6

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I am in the third week of the corporate finance class that I teach at NYU Stern, and my students have been lulled into a false sense of complacency about what's coming, since I have not used a single metric or number in my class yet. With operating margins, you are getting a handle on economies of scale.

Hurdle Rate

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 13, 2025

He ran our retail division and I was working for him at that time. Barry Ritholtz : you were head of strategy, product marketing, communications, like is that one job, is that four jobs? The corporate communications function at Vanguard today, you know, has evolved considerably from back in the early days.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 27, 2025

And then MassMutual combined Barings investing with a number of other shops, including Babson, a very well regarded investing firm. You had a number of bankruptcies going on. And, and I’ve been proven that’s been proven to me a number of times through some mistakes, but I’ve have the scars to, to show it.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 4, 2025

And generally speaking, we are sort of number one or number two in everything that we do, which, which again is a great privilege to work there from that perspective. So again, when we first started specialized industries, I’m not gonna remember the exact number, but we probably had five industries within, within that, right?

Banking

The Big Picture

JUNE 2, 2025

00:04:13 [Speaker Changed] You’ve held a number of roles there eventually becoming a senior partner, but the two that are most fascinating and relevant to your current situation is chief risk officer and Chief Financial Officer. And we had, I don’t remember the number, 60, 70, 80 partners plus another several hundred associates.

Forecasting

PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

The retail bankruptcy watch intensified Tuesday (April 21) as the department store sector was hit by reports of yet another major player looking at that option. Lord & Taylor, now joining Neiman Marcus, is considering a bankruptcy filing as the COVID-19 lockdown continues to decimate non-essential retail. billion in sales.

Retail

PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

The FinTech group is reportedly mulling setting aside a significant number of shares for users if it goes public, but it has yet to make any final decisions, according to Bloomberg, who cited unnamed sources. Robinhood ’s platform is popular with amateur retail investors, particularly millennials and Gen-Zers.

Compliance

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The coronavirus has far-reaching impacts that extend beyond health, with a wide range of economic effects in sectors ranging from transportation to telecom and retail. And, in brick-and-mortar news, Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing has reportedly reopened roughly 100 retail locations in China as of last week.

Transportation

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amid the great digital shift , retailers and financial institutions (FIs) must walk the fine line between challenging transactions and letting the consumer journey proceed frictionless. And that’s a big number,” he told the panel. Communication can be sped up and streamlined through texts, push mobile, phone calls and other efforts.

Retail

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Carvana — The online used car retailer stock dropped more than 8% after the company reported disappointing third-quarter results on the top and bottom lines, according to consensus estimates from Refinitiv. PayPal reported earnings that surpassed profit and sales expectations. Starbucks — Shares rose 2.3%

Restructuring

PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2019

In the unattended retail space, vending operators are also becoming more aware of the shifting behaviors of their shoppers and the need for swift and digital payment options. The wall-mounted machine also has a 21-inch screen for consumer interaction, and comes ready to accept near-field communication (NFC) contactless and card payments.

Retail

PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

As they navigate the coronavirus pandemic and begin to reopen stores, large retailers are putting safety measures into place to keep shoppers and staff members safe — and get customers confidently back into stores. Trade groups are also providing guidance to help retailers open their doors again.

Retail

PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

And nowhere is that aphorism better illustrated over the last decade than with the statistic that more than 90 percent of all retail sales took place at brick and mortar stores. It gave retailers the illusion that digital was the retail cart driven by the physical store horse. The answer, she noted, is complex.

Retail

Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 3, 2024

This month's edition kicks off with the news that 'startup' custodian Altruist has completed a $169 million fundraising round as it continues to rebuild the RIA custodial tech stack layer-by-layer while positioning itself as the biggest RIA custodian built from scratch and solely for advisors – which, while making it the clear #3 custodian behind (..)

Communication

PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

As retailers reopen and take stock of new post-pandemic consumer dynamics, the role of industry trade groups is changing. Groups like the National Retail Federation (NRF) focused more on economic forecasts and supply chain issues as other advocacy groups that have taken the fight for more stimulus dollars to Washington, D.C.

Retail

PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

That’s understandable, given how viciously email, texting and other forms of digital and mobile communication have displaced actual writing — which, of course, would seem to reduce the need for actual stationery products. The chain had since expanded to some 260 or so retail locations. None of that will save the Papyrus retail chain.

Retail

PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

retail picture is bleak in this time of COVID-19. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said on Thursday (March 26) that its monthly survey of retailers showed the weakest outlook since April 2009. The CBI says retail sales volumes will fall sharply to April, with retailers more pessimistic than at any time since April 2009.

Retail

PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

In normal times consumers look for three things from a retailer: price, product and location. In fact, a pre-crisis PwC report showed that 14 percent of respondents said trust in a brand is the number one reason (other than price) why they shop at a retailer. What do consumers want from retailers now?

Retail

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. Already, retailers, telecoms and others are mapping out that 5G AR future (and beyond). Retail Benefits. The Rise Of AR.

Retail

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

retail reopening. Most reports of mall reopenings and other retail post-pandemic debuts in the U.S. Most reports of mall reopenings and other retail post-pandemic debuts in the U.S. Some stores did report good business, but the common denominator was preparing for that event via smart digital communications during the crisis.

Retail

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

While Amazon has performed better for its own goods than other retailers, its independent sellers are also stressed about the delays. Trying to address the situation, Plugable is increasing its number of smaller shipments, which eats into profits by boosting the company’s shipping costs.

Retail

Fpanda Club

MARCH 1, 2021

People FP&A team in general is not numerous with a median number of staff equaling to 5. Tools and systems Telecom and ‘retail and wholesale’ industries are leading in terms of the maturity level of FP&A tools with correspondingly 85% and 81% of organizations with intermediate or advanced tools.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Is the store register on its way out in favor of other retail and payments innovation? In case you didn’t hear, Target faced a register outage that lasted for about 90 minutes on Sunday (June 16), which meant the retail chain couldn’t process cards or other forms of payment. That’s the message from a company called LISNR, at least.

Retail

PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Brookfield has been moving in on mall-centric retail for some time, acquiring all of the stake for U.S. Retail mall stores were some of the hardest-hit with the pandemic, which forced store closures and steep revenue downfalls on an industry already struggling to stay alive due to eCommerce.

Retail

PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

“We may be on borrowed time for job cuts in a number of industries…that were not necessarily distressed when we entered the pandemic,” she said, according to WSJ. Penney and home-goods retailer Pier 1, along with telecommunications company Frontier Communications. Penney, once a heavy hitter in the U.S.

Restructuring

PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Samsung introduced its payments tool in 2015 with MST (Magnetic Secure Transmission) technology as well as Near Field Communication (NFC), a newer technology. That number was about 25 percent for U.S. Growth is being fueled in part because more retailers are participating. smartphone users. .

Communication

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

which is based in Nevada, purportedly provides online retailers with fraud detection and prevention technology, according to the statement. “As He allegedly provided the company’s finance department with the purportedly falsified bank statements and sales numbers monthly. 17) statement. Rogas resigned on Sept.

Securities

PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2020

Online commerce has soared during the pandemic, prompting retailers of all types and sizes to leverage how they use digital channels to bring back customers while a full return to physical retail remains months away. The remote client communicates with the live clerk via a mobile device or laptop messaging.

Retail

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Retail innovation comes from various places – and for the new decade, that includes quick-service restaurants (QSRs), the site of massive technological change. It is all but certain that in the new decade, QSRs will continue to drive retail innovation. Pickup Windows. Contactless Payments. Loyalty, too, is a source of innovation.

Retail

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

On Friday, Cowen downgraded the communication tools company to market perform from outperform, citing deteriorating macro trends. On Friday, Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas pulled the firm’s ratings and price target on the used-car retailer, citing deterioration in the used car market and a volatile funding environment.

Profit and Loss

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The company says it’s the first national bridal retailer to make this move, and the program’s unique design will earn points for the retailer among its brides as well as its business partners. First, the “free honeymoon” offer crystalized everything they were trying to accomplish and communicate with the program.

Communication

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Government-mandated social distancing and stay-at-home orders have slowed in-person retail sales in many regions and mass layoffs have hindered consumers’ purchasing power. Brick-and-mortar retail stores may be suffering from lack of business, but the subscription commerce industry’s revenue remains strong thus far.

Economics

PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

26) that online sales for retailers in France may rise as much as 11 percent in 2017 to $85.85 France stands as number 36 (right behind the U.S.) In 2015, eCommerce accounted for 7 percent of retail sales in France. France stands as number 36 (right behind the U.S.) The most popular retailer? percent jump in 2016.

Sales

PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

In a time period dominated by retail sales declines, the hardest hit has been the automotive industry. While March retail sales dropped 8 percent overall, new cars dropped as much as 36.9 For example, a company called Flick Fusion has introduced a video platform for dealers to communicate with customers remotely.

Marketing

PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

When it comes to the holiday shopping season — an increasing area of focus for retail as the year starts to wind down — it’s not so much about the trends we will see, perhaps, as the trend we will hear. That’s because voice-assisted retail promises to play an even bigger part in shopping and purchasing this year than it did last year.

Retail

PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2017

When Alooma CEO and cofounder Yoni Broyde talked to retailers, he found that for most of them, analysis wasn’t the problem. After they spent six months talking to retailers across North America and Europe, the founders built and launched the Alooma cloud service in 2013. PYMNTS: Can you give me some personnel growth numbers?

Retail