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. Users will need to convert their assorted currencies to Spheris’s SPRS tokens to spend them in the marketplace. More than half of U.S.

Concentration 67

Concentration Benchmarking Securities Currencies 67

PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S., Goldman Sachs reported on its Q1 earnings call that Marcus, since it launched, has originated $3 billion of new loans and taken in $9 billion of new retail deposits. In a dynamic space like banking, lending, payments and financial services more broadly, time is a valuable currency.

Banking 73

Banking Investments Concentration Accounting 73

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. Capturing the Center of the Store.

Sales 54

Sales Concentration Marketing Manufacturing 54

PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

NFC penetration at launch was 15 large retailers’ stores and some 200k merchant locations. 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. UNDERESTIMATING THE VALUE OF TIME AS A CURRENCY.

Numbers 66

Numbers Concentration Technology Retail 66

The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

For example, a retailer might discover that, despite plans to build another location, many of its consumers choose to never shop in a store again. Concentrate on particular areas of improvement. It's possible that what your customers wanted in early 2020 will differ from what they want now.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

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

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. They understand currencies. And ultimately, to make a very long story short, I fell in love with derivatives. RITHOLTZ: Sure. COMMERCIAL BREAK).

Investments 112

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 112

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

AUGUST 13, 2018

It’s tough slogging it out these days as an online retailer with a value proposition based purely on selling stuff cheap. 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 Why wouldn’t he? percent of its sales were attributed to that payment method.

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. And now, some of the retailers are talking about easing Amazon and Walmart.

Profit and Loss 114

Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 114

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Safe harbor harbor here, a little apo apocalyptic currency. So bears capitulated from institution, from retail investors, and the three month VIX versus VIX move below one to suggest, you know, capitulation on that indicator. So large caps become big caps.

Marketing 59

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 59