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

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 there’s a very, very serious danger now of a vicious circle taking hold in which, as interest rates rise, international investors become nervous about the investments they’ve made in the developing world.

Economics 100

Economics Concentration Investments Finance 100

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

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

JUNE 14, 2018

In investing, like in sports, maxims abound. Look to the savviest investors and you’ll find pearls of wisdom that speak to the current climate, the past investing landscape and which may be good lodestars for the future. Here, said the research from Griffin and Shams, Tether, another virtual currency, was used to buy bitcoin.

Concentration 40

Concentration Investments Currencies Finance 40

PYMNTS

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

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Ford said the decline in bank overdraft lending to small businesses means these companies cannot invest in themselves. “As banks concentrate on providing overdrafts to large businesses, SMEs have to look elsewhere to support their short-term funding needs,” he wrote. million each.

Banking 46

Banking Concentration Financial Systems Leadership 46

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

Put simply, I possess no exclusivity here, and staying consistent with my thesis, I don't expect to expect to make money by investing based upon this data. First, all value numbers (like market capitalization, debt or revenues) that I aggregate or average will be converted into US dollars to ensure currency consistency.

Valuation 52

Valuation Currencies Numbers Corporate Finance 52

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The new version of the App Store was crafted to drive more app discovery and downloads through the separation of apps and games, increased investment in editorial content and features like “App of the Day,” which gives exposure to different developers daily. More than half of U.S.

Concentration 67

Concentration Benchmarking Securities Currencies 67

PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. And in 2017, those investments were off-the-charts nuts. Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S.,

Banking 73

Banking Investments Concentration Accounting 73

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. Only 16 percent went into bitcoin investments.

Currencies 41

Currencies Banking Accounting Budgeting 41

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

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

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. And who will influence how innovation happens.

Sales 54

Sales Concentration Marketing Manufacturing 54

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

It presents a great opportunity for ACI to strengthen and add scale to our On Demand business, and provides fuel for growth and increased R&D investment which will benefit both ACI and Speedpay customers,” said Phil Heasley, president and CEO, ACI Worldwide. “We We are excited to welcome the talented Speedpay team into the ACI family.

Concentration 79

Concentration Currencies Healthcare Education 79

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. Her name is Kristen Bitterly Michell.

Investments 114

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 114

PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

It’s been nearly two years – 20 months to be precise — since it was launched after significant investments in engineering, marketing and promotion. 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.

Numbers 66

Numbers Concentration Technology Retail 66

The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

As much of the developed world reopens, many businesses are optimistic and looking to invest in a new era of growth. Company leadership can evaluate which investments make the most financial sense and have the greatest potential for continued revenue development by simulating various scenarios, products, and market circumstances.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

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

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. There’s only so many things you can buy on the dark web though. Back here in the U.S. —

Math 62

Math Currencies Startups Concentration 62

PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

When online banking first emerged, it was only provided to large, corporate clients, the customers that had the resources to invest in such sophisticated tools. Banks are concentrated so heavily on the top end; they kind of conveniently put everyone else into a single bracket,” Rayfield added. Cantor added.

Banking 41

Banking Concentration Treasury Cash Management 41

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

I found this to be really a fascinating conversation about approaching the world of investing from a different angle. So that was a while back, but nonetheless, I don’t know if it was love at first sight, but we got to get along pretty well, and after a few years working for investment banks, he then joined Goldman Sachs.

Investments 56

Investments Banking Entertainment Valuation 56

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

It’s a storyline with some very strong parallels to the cryptocurrency stories being told and the investments that they now garner. These early advocates have stimulated a vast amount of investment into this vision; $1.7 billion has been invested into bitcoin/crypto-related ventures over the last eight years.

Currencies 71

Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Investments 71

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Perhaps the time is ripe as never before for talking about when and why to invest in blockchain assets, AKA bitcoin, in the wake of an election that has injected uncertainty into just where the United States may be headed in terms of fiscal and monetary policy over the next four years. They also like the dollar, too, Webster pointed out.).

Concentration 82

Concentration Currencies Investments Education 82

PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Banks have invested time and money into creating their own virtual assistants to give consumers access to their bank account information via their mobile phones. That firm, GSR, previously invested $160 million in tZERO tokens during its ICO in June. On the heels of that news, Overstock’s shares spiked 20 percent.

Banking 44

Banking Transportation Investments Currencies 44

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. I mean, it’s an age old thing in investing and trading.

Profit and Loss 117

Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 117

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

31, 2018, will mark the 10th anniversary of the day that a link to a paper , authored by Satoshi Nakamoto , describing the digital currency called bitcoin was first publicly circulated. Ten years after bitcoin launched, it remains the go-to currency of criminals and a way for cybercrooks to wash their money. The end of this month, Oct.

Currencies 85

Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Leverage 85

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You work at Capital Growth Financial and in former global markets before you join investing Giant Merrill Lynch in 2007, what was that transition like from smaller shops to a really, really big one? So I’m looking at the lowest tier of investment grade versus the 10 year yield 00:52:46 [Speaker Changed] Versus the treasury.

Marketing 60

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 60

CFO News Room

JANUARY 16, 2023

The ability of FTX to woo the wealthy New York family gives a fresh sign of how far Bankman-Fried had penetrated the US elite in his drive to attract investment for his businesses. Findings: We found strong linear association between wastewater concentration and estimated community prevalence (r=0·916). Worth a read.

Concentration 130

Concentration Economics Forecasting Communication 130

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