CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Going forward, the network of participants and the number of use cases could continue to see rapid growth, giving cryptocurrencies in this category plenty of further upside. In 2021, there were a number of digital asset company IPOs, led by Coinbase , the largest listing (IPO, SPAC, or otherwise) of any digital asset company in history.

Concentration

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

Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

That said, AI and ML systems answer corporate treasurers’ continuing need for better ways to extract meaning from the numbers. Corporates with a high number of physical bank accounts may face challenges around cash visibility and control.

Treasury

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The report also noted that virtual currency exchange and transmission was 9.4 In more granular data, the industry remains concentrated, with the 10 largest companies handling 74 percent of the $685 billion in money transmission activity. From a high-level view, the industry handled $1.2 The average foreign transaction was $479.

Concentration

Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

That has not happened either, as employment numbers have stayed strong, housing prices have (at least up till now) absorbed the blows from higher mortgage rates and the economy has continued to grow. US Equities in 2023: Into the Weeds! trillion in the first six months of 2023, 97.2% trillion increase in value for all US equities.

Marketing

PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2019

In terms of headline numbers, the $1.31 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 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

B2B

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

Global Finance

OCTOBER 11, 2024

trillion in extended credit and new capital for its consumer and institutional clients while moving $10 trillion in over 120 currencies daily. The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s quick response to the banks’ failures stemmed additional contagion and has left businesses with an object lesson in concentration risk.

Banking

Global Finance

JULY 25, 2024

It’s a continuation of work that we started a number of years ago, to recognize the strategic importance of payments to the bank. Monaco: We’ve been working with companies on a number of strategies to optimize liquidity. Cross-currency sweeps can generate a consolidated global position of cash from two accounts in different currencies.

Treasury

Global Finance

JULY 25, 2024

It’s a continuation of work that we started a number of years ago, to recognize the strategic importance of payments to the bank. Monaco: We’ve been working with companies on a number of strategies to optimize liquidity. Cross-currency sweeps can generate a consolidated global position of cash from two accounts in different currencies.

Treasury

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

CS Lucas

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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Technology

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

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. In Germany that number was ever lower, with 16 percent reporting yes and 84 percent reporting no. ” So what about virtual currencies ?

Currencies

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. million each.

Banking

Global Finance

OCTOBER 14, 2024

They tend to increase investments in hard currencies while seeking a more sophisticated, comprehensive value proposition.” In fact, the number of single-family offices in Latin America serving one family exclusively, grew by an astonishing 200% over the past decade, according to recent research by Capgemini.

Banking

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

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. And they will decide what they’re going to buy and sell.

Profit and Loss

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

In closing, I also want to dispense with the notion that data is objective and that numbers-focused people have no bias. Finally, it is worth noting that, notwithstanding the travails of last year, the number of firms in the data universe increased from 44,394 firms at the start of 2020 to 46,579 firms, a 4.9%

Valuation

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

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. And so, while you can see that concentration in markets, and sales, and trading, once I started really working with our private bank in a meaningful way, I was then able to lead teams of investment counselors and investors.

Investments

PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

Look at it this way: If a small business is on the phone with a bank’s relationship manager trying to transfer a large, specific sum of money across borders to a certain bank account in local currency, the payer may not have full confidence the transaction will be made correctly. Cantor added.

Banking

The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Even Overstock — among the first, if not the first, to accept bitcoin as a payments currency on its site — reports that a measly 0.25 It can also take days to get that crypto converted into spendable, fiat currency — all while the value of bitcoin swings in the wind. percent of its sales were attributed to that payment method.

Banking

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

Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In 2023, the lab honed its focus to concentrate on startups between seed and Series A funding stages. The lab concentrates on several technological areas: AI, data science, immersive media, and the Internet of Things. billion), numbering more than 37,000 scam cases. million members. Enter AI Skynet. “AI

Startups

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 28, 2024

Second, in our zeal to measure risk with numbers, we have lost sight of the reality that the effects of risk are as much on human psyche, as they are on economics. Third, by making investing a choice between good (higher returns) and bad (higher risk), a message is sent, perhaps unwittingly, that risk is something to be avoided or hedged.

Hurdle Rate

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

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

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

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. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number.

Currencies

PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S., But its positioning of the blockchain as one of its critical strategic pillars emphasizes a bigger and more important point: The hype is only as good as the numbers it can deliver. billion by 2021. billion growing to $120.7 billion in 2018 growing to $1.1 trillion in 2021.

Banking

PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

Adoption: The number of people who’ve tried the service once has tripled since launch. Apple Pay total adoption is up – as defined by the total number of people in the U.S. More people own iPhone 6/6S phones now, so the pool of potential users is larger – as are the number of places that it can be used. who’ve tried it once.

Numbers

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. A recent report by RiskIQ showed that these less regulated stores are growing in number and becoming a primary source of blacklisted, malicious and fraudulent apps.

Concentration

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So a lot of companies that go public then have a valuable currency they can use for acquisitions. And that could be painful, because someone will have to take the pain, even if, unlike 2008, where the risk was concentrated on banks’ balance sheet, today is much more spread across, let’s say, asset managers.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And 00:06:38 [Speaker Changed] Door number one was much better than door number three in, in the circumstances. When we talk about breadth, we’re talking about the numbers of advancers versus decliners. Safe harbor harbor here, a little apo apocalyptic currency. So it’s like, yeah.

Marketing

CFO News Room

JANUARY 16, 2023

SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentration and linked longitudinal seroprevalence: a spatial analysis of strain mutation, post-COVID-19 vaccination effect, and hospitalization burden forecasting (preprint) medRxiv. Findings: We found strong linear association between wastewater concentration and estimated community prevalence (r=0·916).

Concentration