CS Lucas

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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Technology 52

Technology Treasury IFRS Compliance 52

CFO News Room

JANUARY 10, 2023

Now we’re looking back at data and we can see how concentrated this was in one small portion of the population, and how the fact that people who were being exposed to these were really, really likely to vote for Trump,’ Tucker said. Second, exposure was concentrated among users who strongly identified as Republicans.

Concentration 130

Concentration Education Healthcare Budgeting 130

PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

Krona: The Swedish currency takes it place among other decliners, such as the Turkish lira and Venezuela’s bolívar , amid economic woes writ large. The currency is down eight percent for the year against the euro, and the lingering impacts of the trade war are to blame. Net sales were up 4.3 trillion, and U.S.

Currencies 40

Currencies Concentration Leverage Accounting 40

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 28, 2024

The second is that some geographies have sector concentrations that affect their pricing risk scores; the preponderance of natural resource and mining companies in Australia and Canada, for instance, explain the high standard deviations in 2023.

Hurdle Rate 93

Hurdle Rate Concentration Investments Finance 93

PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

million in digital currency. Investigators then found out that the overseas site was using an online gambling model with digital currency payments. Through the investigation, police arrested six organizers of the platform and seized $750,000 in Chinese currency deposits, along with the $1.5 million in crypto.

Concentration 40

Concentration Advertising Currencies Investments 40

The Finance Weekly

APRIL 25, 2022

Any company with a global supply chain is inherently vulnerable to the fluctuations in currency and input prices that this crisis is intensifying. Finance chiefs also need to avoid falling for the illusion they are immune from foreign volatility because their products are priced in U.S.

Finance 107

Finance Forecasting Treasury Concentration 107

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The concentration of bitcoin mining increases the likelihood miners will collude to attack the blockchain, and as profitability goes down, fewer miners will operate and existing incumbents will consolidate. Smith went on in his speech to say that the lessons learned from the Bitfinex hack have improved the digital currency environment.

Currencies 77

Currencies Concentration Securities Banking 77

PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has again released its report on top risks facing banks, with its Spring 2017 analysis warning FIs that threats are coming from all angles. Noreika, acting Comptroller of the Currency, in a statement. Today, the federal banking system remains healthy,” he continued. “As

Banking 46

Banking Compliance Currencies Concentration 46

PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Oppenheimer wrote, “Recent shifts in global currencies could impact the buying power of Chinese tourists in the U.S.”. Tax cuts and incitements (last month regulators advocated slashing interest rates for small and mid-sized firms) mean that spending activity is concentrated within China’s borders. The concept is a simple one.

Valuation 40

Valuation Concentration Currencies Retail 40

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APRIL 20, 2018

Morgan Stanley analysts have estimated that bitcoin miners lose money when the price of the once high-flying digital currency is below $8,600. More to the point: Like any commodity, there’s a break-even point in production, measured in dollars and cents, even when it comes to commodities made out of bits and bytes.

Concentration 41

Concentration Manufacturing Currencies Economics 41

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. In fact, since trading has been suspended on both indices, the extent of the damage is probably understated.

Economics 130

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 130

PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2017

Speaking in front of the LendIt conference in New York yesterday (March 6), Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Murray told those assembled that the oversight body will go forward with plans to offer banking charters to fintech companies.

Planning 40

Planning Banking Concentration Currencies 40

PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

At a recent $5,280, the digital currency is leagues above its nadir of $3,400 during the crypto crash, and leagues below all-time highs of about $20,000. And within that concentration, as much as 80 percent of bitcoin mining is performed by six mining “pools” – and five of them are in China.

Concentration 58

Concentration Currencies Economics Planning 58

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Rapidly rising interest rates and in some cases the risk of an associated currency mismatch makes life harder for borrowers. And for developing countries that borrow in dollars, the pressure of a rising cost of borrowing and their declining currency potentially very dangerous, squeeze on, on their economic prospects.

Economics 100

Economics Concentration Investments Finance 100

PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2018

According to Bibby Financial Services data released last week, both importing and exporting SMBs in the country have seen negative implications of Brexit , with two-thirds saying they have been adversely impacted by currency volatility. ” Even as banks (at least, in the U.S.) ” Even as banks (at least, in the U.S.)

Finance 50

Finance Foreign Exchange Concentration Currencies 50

PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

But for that marquee name, bitcoin, news comes this week that “concentrated price manipulation,” as The New York Times termed it, may have been behind at least half of last year’s boost. Here, said the research from Griffin and Shams, Tether, another virtual currency, was used to buy bitcoin. and lightly regulated.

Concentration 40

Concentration Investments Currencies Finance 40

PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

This open-source project is intended to enable anyone to trade bitcoin for fiat currency without needing a middleman. And move bitcoin away from highly concentrated bitcoin exchange ownership, he hopes. And move bitcoin away from highly concentrated bitcoin exchange ownership, he hopes. Can Bitcoin Break The $450 Mark?

Currencies 42

Currencies Concentration Marketing Planning 42

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

I was reminded of that paper a few weeks ago, when Fitch downgraded the US, from AAA to AA+, a relatively minor shift, but one with significant psychological consequences for investors in the largest economy in the world, whose currency still dominates global transactions.

Investments 80

Investments Currencies Treasury Hurdle Rate 80

The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Economics Risk Management Reconciliations 52

Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. In fact, since trading has been suspended on both indices, the extent of the damage is probably understated.

Economics 100

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 100

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

“As banks concentrate on providing overdrafts to large businesses, SMEs have to look elsewhere to support their short-term funding needs,” he wrote. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, meanwhile, is exploring revised sanctions guidelines against banks in the wake of the Wells Fargo case.

Banking 46

Banking Concentration Financial Systems Leadership 46

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

smartphone owners now download a grand total of zero apps per month, and most new app downloads are (unsurprisingly) concentrated in the millennial demographic. Users will need to convert their assorted currencies to Spheris’s SPRS tokens to spend them in the marketplace. More than half of U.S.

Concentration 67

Concentration Benchmarking Securities Currencies 67

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

The ability to print on-demand apparel and accessories — more than 220 different products — through the platform helps communities and businesses buy, sell, create and share their ideas in more than 12 languages and 19 markets and currencies. “We

Concentration 40

Concentration Nonprofit Entertainment Startups 40

PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

since London, which is where much of the usage is concentrated , has a high merchant acceptance, and the transit authority now enables contactless payments across all of its endpoints. ” So what about virtual currencies ? That’s surprising since Germany is such a cash-based economy – and card usage is not as strong. In the U.K.,

Currencies 44

Currencies Concentration Securities Numbers 44

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

While the universe of companies is diverse, with approximately half of all firms from emerging markets, it is more concentrated in market capitalization, with the US accounting for 40% of global market capitalization at the start of the year. Data Update 3 for 2021: Currencies, Commodities, Collectibles and Cryptos!

Valuation 52

Valuation Currencies Numbers Corporate Finance 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Some key tools that emerged as most beneficial to treasurers included physical cash concentration, notional pooling and virtual account solutions. For instance, both cash concentration and notional pooling can enable a treasurer to understand an end-of-day cash position.

Treasury 103

Treasury Concentration Currencies Banking 103

PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

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. If Professor Rogoff wants to know what’s the currency of the big-time criminal today, it’s not cash, it’s bitcoin. They’d figure something out. In fact, they already have.

Currencies 41

Currencies Banking Accounting Budgeting 41

PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S., In a dynamic space like banking, lending, payments and financial services more broadly, time is a valuable currency. In January, the International Data Corporation (IDC) reported worldwide spending on blockchain solutions would increase to $2.1 billion by 2021. trillion in 2021.

Banking 73

Banking Investments Concentration Accounting 73

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Success is now defined by the ability to reach a critical mass of users – consumers or businesses – efficiently and effectively … where time is an important currency, as is the ability to influence and/or control that end user experience. Without the membership fee, using mobile and with door-to-door delivery.

Sales 54

Sales Concentration Marketing Manufacturing 54

Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

In US dollar terms, Latin America was flat in the first half of 2023, though there were a couple of Latin American markets that delivered stellar returns in local currency terms, albeit with high inflation eating away at these returns. US Equities in 2023: Into the Weeds! trillion in the first six months of 2023, 97.2%

Marketing 95

Marketing Treasury Currencies Valuation 95

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

And while ACI is excited to delve deeper into the bill pay market, Western Union is looking to its future where it can re-up its focus on digital services and cross-border, cross-currency payments.

Concentration 79

Concentration Currencies Healthcare Education 79

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Now, cloud computing has made virtual clusters of computers and storage available to those same firms, and delivery of those services is concentrated among companies like Amazon , Google and Microsoft. Only a decade and a half ago, companies still had their own data centers.

Currencies 77

Currencies Concentration eCommerce Banking 77

PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2019

Stripping out the impacts of currency volatility, the company said that payments volume was up 8 percent year over year to just under $2.1 trillion, up 7 percent in constant currency, and outpaced by debit growth at 10 percent. Total top line was $5.5 billion, which was on par with forecasts, and up 8 percent year over year.

B2B 50

B2B Currencies Concentration CFO 50

PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Janet Yellen, President Joe Biden's nominee for Treasury Secretary, is expected to take a hard stance on cryptocurrencies, calling digital currency a “particular concern” that is used “mainly for illicit financing,” Arstechnica and other news outlets reported on Thursday (Jan. Regulators in the U.S.

Treasury 112

Treasury Concentration Credit Risk Compliance 112

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. Maybe they didn’t see its potential use case as a global currency for crime, or chose not to.

Math 62

Math Currencies Startups Concentration 62

PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

OpenTable retrenched and instead concentrated on building a critical mass of consumers and restaurants in cities that then gave them the ability to expand with a critical mass of both in tow. UNDERESTIMATING THE VALUE OF TIME AS A CURRENCY. The problem they faced was that they lacked any critical mass anywhere.

Numbers 66

Numbers Concentration Technology Retail 66

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

And it is this latter offering, in travel, that offers some insight into just how cards and electronic payments can be used on a global scale across time zones and currencies. It’s analogous in many ways to Canada in terms of the level of advancement and the concentration. dollar transaction, and we would debit the U.S. dollar purse.

Currencies 68

Currencies Concentration Accounting Banking 68