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.

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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.

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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. It’s not the safest thing to do, nor is it the most financially sophisticated, but it makes some people feel secure. They’d figure something out. In fact, they already have.

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Currencies Banking Accounting Budgeting 41

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.

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Numbers Concentration Technology Retail 66

The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Concentrate on particular areas of improvement. After you've documented and comprehended the extended financial closing process, you may concentrate on identifying the areas that require immediate attention. Secure a quick win. Use intelligent process automation to your advantage. Centralize risk management activities.

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

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Math Currencies Startups Concentration 62

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.

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Concentration Accounting Banking Currencies 47

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.

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Banking Transportation Investments Currencies 44

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. And 00:06:38 [Speaker Changed] Door number one was much better than door number three in, in the circumstances.

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Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 60

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).

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 10, 2023

The president’s national security staff have organised policy on Ukraine. 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. Not a chance!

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Concentration Education Healthcare Budgeting 130