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. trillion, and U.S.

Currencies 40

Currencies Concentration Leverage Accounting 40

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. “We With time, the fundamentals surrounding the bitcoin market improved. The problem here is bitcoin’s integrity.

Currencies 77

Currencies Concentration Securities Banking 77

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This interview of Richard Kozul-White of UNCTAD cover a very broad scope of economic issues from the developing country perspective: how unregulated financial markets have hindered emerging countries, how the Global Financial Crisis market failure has been ignored, and how even before Covid, these countries were facing a decade of lost growth.

Economics 100

Economics Concentration Investments Finance 100

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. The company trimmed its growth estimates earlier this week in part on the vagaries of the crypto market. If smaller players desert the market, then bigger players remain.

Concentration 41

Concentration Manufacturing Currencies Economics 41

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

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

Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The increase in default spreads was not restricted to foreign markets, as fear also pushed up spreads in the corporate bond market.

Economics 100

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 100

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

Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis.

Marketing 95

Marketing Treasury Currencies Valuation 95

PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2018

law firm Gowling WLG, there have been more than 7,000 measures implemented in markets across the globe “believed to be injurious to global trade.” As such, often importers and exporters are equally exposed to currency volatility and wider economic uncertainty.” Citing research from U.K. ” “The U.S.

Finance 50

Finance Foreign Exchange Concentration Currencies 50

PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

How about this one: Benjamin Graham, widely regarded as the man who basically created the discipline known as value investing, and who said (or wrote), “In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.”. Buy low, sell high becomes that most pleasurable of activities.

Concentration 40

Concentration Investments Currencies Finance 40

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

PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

While India hasn’t been the friendliest environment for bitcoin, that hasn’t stopped one bitcoin exchange from making a go in the market. The company said it will use the money to expand in domestic and international markets. And move bitcoin away from highly concentrated bitcoin exchange ownership, he hopes.

Currencies 42

Currencies Concentration Marketing Planning 42

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Founded in 2002, the goal of Spreadshirt’s platform is to eliminate headaches and hurdles when bringing great ideas to market. The e-merchant is freed up to concentrate on creative ideas and community engagement with fans rather than spending time on a tedious business process.”.

Concentration 40

Concentration Nonprofit Entertainment Startups 40

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

I spent the first week of 2021 in the same way that I have spent the first week of every year since 1995, collecting data on publicly traded companies and analyzing how they navigated the cross currents of the prior year, both in operating and market value terms.

Valuation 52

Valuation Currencies Numbers Corporate Finance 52

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. consumers – the tech giant may see better results in other global markets where smartphone adoption is still in its early stages. More than half of U.S. Third Party.

Concentration 67

Concentration Benchmarking Securities Currencies 67

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Plus, the latest developments on Wells Fargo and what its scandal means for its market peers. “As banks concentrate on providing overdrafts to large businesses, SMEs have to look elsewhere to support their short-term funding needs,” he wrote. We dive into the latest banking news from around the world. $30

Banking 46

Banking Concentration Financial Systems Leadership 46

PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

The only way to predict what the emerging payments trends are for today is to seek out the one group of people who has the power to control the entire market: consumers. TSYS does this regularly – and most recently dug into two of its markets — the U.K. market in July 2015 and March 2016, respectively. In the U.K., In the U.K.,

Currencies 44

Currencies Concentration Securities Numbers 44

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

While the corporate treasurer's fundamental role has remained steady, the treasury function has seen dramatic impacts from a changing market that is increasingly moving toward real time. Some key tools that emerged as most beneficial to treasurers included physical cash concentration, notional pooling and virtual account solutions.

Treasury 103

Treasury Concentration Currencies Banking 103

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. Both Nielsen and The Food Marketing Institute estimate that online grocery sales will hit 20 percent of all grocery sales by 2025. Distribution.

Sales 54

Sales Concentration Marketing Manufacturing 54

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

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

bill pay market accounted for 15 billion transactions in 2018 — and the vertical continues to grow at steady mid-single-digit rates annually. 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

FinTech still exists as a fragmented market, where businesses striving to offer payment services to end users pick and choose among providers, integrate with those providers, and must often navigate across complex technological and regulatory hurdles as they expand into new markets.

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. Yet, within certain markets, said Kelly, activity remains robust. Total top line was $5.5

B2B 50

B2B Currencies Concentration Forecasting 50

PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

market without further rigorous testing, citing concerns over the drug’s potential to penetrate a mother’s placenta and harm her unborn baby. And, like cash, it was designed to eliminate any ambiguity in how and when this currency was transmitted — once cash is handed to someone else, it’s gone. The drug was thalidomide.

Currencies 62

Currencies Math Startups Concentration 62

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. Four percent usage of Apple Pay of a 5 percent Safari browser universe isn’t much of a market for merchants to get jazzed about. UNDERESTIMATING THE VALUE OF TIME AS A CURRENCY.

Numbers 66

Numbers Concentration Technology Retail 66

The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This past year has magnified challenges for organizations and their respective industries in unique ways, but there's one common theme we've noticed across the board: Those who were able to adapt quickly found new, unexpected ways to thrive and grow in the midst of one of the most difficult market environments in modern history.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

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

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She really has an incredible background in everything from capital markets to derivatives, to wealth management. You’ve been involved with capital markets for your entire career. 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.

Investments 116

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 116

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. New Zealand is a smaller market,” continued Salmon. It’s analogous in many ways to Canada in terms of the level of advancement and the concentration.

Currencies 68

Currencies Concentration Accounting Banking 68

PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

What’s so hard about paying contract workers who work cross-border in a variety of far-flung locales and who want to be paid in the currency easiest for them to use in their home countries? billion unbanked and underbanked people in the world, with concentration in developing nations. 4) The Need To Partner .

B2C 40

B2C Concentration B2B Currencies 40

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Cash, especially that much of it, is an insecure, cumbersome, friction-filled currency – not to mention physically unclean, hard to keep track of, easy to miscount (and steal) and all around a hassle for businesses in regulated states that want to sell pot to patients and customers. in fact, there are fewer than two dozen.

Concentration 47

Concentration Accounting Banking Currencies 47

PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

When it comes to the economy, SMEs might just be the Cinderellas of the market — without the fairy tale ending. Technology has advanced to such an extent that banks can now properly service a scale market,” Rayfield continued. “It That’s how iGTB sees it, at least. economy, vital to its health yet inadequately serviced by the banks.

Banking 41

Banking Concentration Treasury Cash Management 41

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. The Crypto Has No Clothes. The Need for a Balanced View.

Currencies 71

Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Investments 71

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In about three hours, $13 billon of value was wiped out of the crypto market as the values of major digital currencies plunged. 31, 2018, will mark the 10th anniversary of the day that a link to a paper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto was first publicly circulated, describing the digital currency called bitcoin. as of 9:38 a.m.

Marketing 49

Marketing Concentration Currencies Financial Systems 49

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

That surge, said the executive, would make sense, since bitcoin can be seen as an asset that stands apart from traditional government-backed currencies and thus can be seen “as a hedge against broader macroeconomic and political uncertainties.”. Webster brought up the concentration of bitcoin mining in China.

Concentration 82

Concentration Currencies Investments Education 82

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

And so late 90s, that’s the emergence of the high yield market in Europe, you would print deals like never before. Now, on the positive and the silver lining was that this whole situation started putting a lot of light on, let’s say, the alternative market. Is it just the size of the US market? I think we learned a lot.

Investments 57

Investments Banking Entertainment Valuation 57

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. TROPIN: So it was very fertile to do what we do because markets moved a lot.

Profit and Loss 118

Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 118