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.

Concentration 67

Concentration Benchmarking Securities Currencies 67

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. Consumers need reassurance that mobile is secure. In the U.K.,

Currencies 44

Currencies Concentration Securities Numbers 44

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. For an investment to be risk free then, it has to meet two conditions.

Investments 80

Investments Currencies Treasury Hurdle Rate 80

PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S., trillion; on security-related hardware, software and services at 10 percent a year from a 2018 base of $91.4 They’re also using software and cryptographic techniques and permissioned-based networks to digitize and move assets around the world faster and in a secure, compliant manner.

Banking 73

Banking Investments Concentration Accounting 73

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

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.

Math 62

Math Currencies Startups Concentration 62

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? Security and transparency are top of mind as well. billion unbanked and underbanked people in the world, with concentration in developing nations.

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.

Concentration 47

Concentration Accounting Banking Currencies 47

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. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has turned down bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). HK/SIN time, CNBC reported. Ethereum, XRP and bitcoin are far from their highs. 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

PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

but in large developing markets where other established competitors have a healthy head start. It’s far easier to talk about how bitcoin and blockchain are more revolutionary then the internet and watch your stock price — and market cap — double and triple in value. All in the space of just a few months’ time.

Banking 44

Banking Transportation Investments Currencies 44

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. Take developing markets.

Currencies 85

Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Leverage 85

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

He is Chief Equity technical strategist at B of A Securities, and he’s a double threat. And I think you will also, with no further ado, my conversation with B of A Securities, Steven Sutt Meyer. You go on the road, you see offices, they ask you questions about markets, stocks, things like that. That’s right.

Marketing 61

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 61

CFO News Room

JANUARY 10, 2023

The decision, which has not yet been finalized amid more immediate efforts to manage a recent spike in Covid cases, would trigger a complex restructuring of major elements of the federal response — and set the stage for the eventual shifting of greater responsibility for vaccines and treatments to the private market. Not a chance!

Concentration 130

Concentration Education Healthcare Budgeting 130