PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

How, where and why consumers are transacting has shifted rapidly during the pandemic due to both health and economic concerns, and online payments have claimed a bigger role in commerce. The pandemic-induced jump in online purchases can actually mask the growing fraud threat for retailers, however, according to one recent report.

Concentration 79

Concentration Retail Leverage Entertainment 79

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Uber is leveraging its platform assets, and its critical mass of drivers and consumer users, to find new sources of value for its platform and the stakeholders who are part of it,” wrote Webster. Khosrowshahi said the users who leverage both apps are “the most satisfied customers,” and that the relationship “becomes closer.”

Concentration 53

Concentration Construction Leverage Transportation 53

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. Glimmers of the subprime lending spike seem to be shimmering as the leveraged loan market stands at $1.4 Net sales were up 4.3 Corporates may wish to watch out. trillion, and U.S.

Currencies 40

Currencies Concentration Leverage Accounting 40

Future CFO

JUNE 23, 2021

Leveraging automation that includes AI allows for a better quality and understanding of the data and an acceleration of work processes, all packaged into flexible, scalable solutions that can increase savings and productivity. 1 "Stephen Hawking Warns Artificial Intelligence Could End Human Race", The Economic Times, March 14, 2018.

Invoicing 52

Invoicing Accounts Payable Technology Concentration 52

PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2019

The average operational cost for a bank to originate an SMB loan can be $3,500, meaning the loan may be less than economically desirous to the bank. As a result, the view is a holistic one, with a sense of the SMB/borrower’s vendor concentration, cash flow volatility and leverage ratios. Bringing Data Into The Equation.

B2B 52

B2B Concentration Invoicing Finance 52

PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

When it is running well, it powers tremendous growth and economic prosperity for consumers, businesses and communities across the country,” said Keith A. Many banks have increasingly leveraged and become dependent on third-party service providers to support key operations within their banks,” the report stated.

Banking 46

Banking Compliance Currencies Concentration 46

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Just like the original notion of giving idle black car drivers an opportunity to fill in the gaps between appointments with a few gigs, those drivers now powered a local fleet that could leverage its logistics expertise to expand the Uber ecosystem and power new services. Uber Eats users concentrate 53.6 Closing The Loop.

Transportation 58

Transportation Concentration Leverage Accounting 58

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In this week’s episode of The Matchmaker Is In series, hosts Karen Webster and David Evans, economist and author of “ Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms , were joined by Delivery.com CEO Jed Kleckner to explore the critical role value and trust play in igniting a marketplace platform. How Delivery.com Delivers.

Leverage 46

Leverage Advertising Concentration Numbers 46

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Some companies are aiming to tackle this economic and environmental challenge with the help of mobile order-ahead innovation. The company sometimes offers some non-perishable food items, such as canned goods and boxes of cereal, but the idea is to concentrate on fresh food as much as possible, Founder and CEO Jonathan Defoy told PYMNTS.

Concentration 57

Concentration Retail Education Forecasting 57

PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

We also saw a 350 percent increase last year in customers sending live payments, and we’re beginning to see more customers flip the switch and leverage XRP for on-demand liquidity.”. Among the dominant players: UPI, IMPS and others.

Concentration 62

Concentration Banking Leverage Economics 62

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. At the same time, we are going through tectonic changes in the world economic order.

Investments 65

Investments Marketing Economics Risk Management 65

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

00:16:05 [Speaker Changed] We set up a co CIO model to deal with that very issue so that we could attract the best talent, leverage the skills and capabilities of Carl and myself, allowing us to have more time both to invest. 00:22:29 [Speaker Changed] So less concentrated exposure. You don’t take that approach.

Healthcare 61

Healthcare Investments Construction Concentration 61

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

factor tilts) on top of an index to implement their own proprietary investment strategy; advisors who want to build their client’s portfolio around a large, highly appreciated, or concentrated investment position; or clients whose human capital is tied up in (and leaving them over-exposed to) one particular company or industry.

Planning 130

Planning Benchmarking Profit and Loss Communication 130

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. BITTERLY MICHELL: Not in leveraged, no, not at all, give more …. It was at Bank One, at the time. It was called the First Scholars Program, and they targeted Liberal Arts majors.

Investments 116

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 116

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street. Cambridge U.K.,

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 61

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Construction Concentration 61

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

I think the industry likes to tell a story that one of the big drivers from insurance and brokerage firms to RIAs is essentially the economics of it. But I’m struck as you were framing this that this basically had nothing to do with the economics of it. And the economics, they ultimately worked out long term.

Planning 130

Planning Communication Profit and Loss Education 130

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Because the economics of profitability start showing up particularly when you’re starting to hire other advisors and staff and team. So, you can really leverage all of the tools and you just show how much tremendous value you can add. And the reality is just no one really trains us to do this. And then we have the 0% cap.

Restructuring 130

Restructuring Planning Accounting Marketing 130

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

The exposure you get in investment banking, I was a leveraged finance banker by background. During COVID, rather than just a monetary response, we saw a massive fiscal response, which seemed to have really helped across the entire economic strata, especially the middle class. I think it was a great training. I think we learned a lot.

Investments 57

Investments Banking Entertainment Valuation 57

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

In fact, the infrastructure business is full of companies that borrow heavily, with little or no earnings buffer, and I am not sure that many of them will withstand the Hindenburg test for over leverage.

Marketing 130

Marketing Investments Auditing Restructuring 130

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

In fact, the infrastructure business is full of companies that borrow heavily, with little or no earnings buffer, and I am not sure that many of them will withstand the Hindenburg test for over leverage.

Investments 100

Investments Valuation Auditing Restructuring 100

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

In the have not category, we’ve got the long short equity funds that are directional and concentrated, which have had horrific performance. If you’re making a directional bet, or even worse, a leveraged directional bet, and you’re your funds going to suffer. There has never been a clearer bifurcation between the two.

Investments 57

Investments Numbers Risk Management Concentration 57

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The US is working to get both countries to join efforts to economically isolate and militarily contain China. While Tokyo and Seoul have been pragmatic in their dealings with Russia, early indications are they’re going to have a more challenging time navigating what’s to come in the US economic war against China. By Conor Gallagher.

Manufacturing 100

Manufacturing Economics Investments Securities 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Bitcoin’s processing operation is highly concentrated within a handful of miners in China — which is getting more concentrated now, since the price of bitcoin has crashed and fewer players can afford to keep the lights on (literally, since bitcoin processing requires a massive amount of electricity). The Talk Of The Blockchain Tech.

Currencies 85

Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Leverage 85

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And I think that’s reflective of employee having a lot of leverage over employers. TROPIN: I mean, you know, there were equity hedge funds that were pretty levered, that had pretty highly concentrated, you know, growth bets, and a lot of technology companies and so on. How does this impact global trade and other economic factors?

Profit and Loss 118

Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 118

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

So you would see pretty high concentrations of, you know, $100 million, $200 million, $300 million, all essentially sitting on a single balance sheet of the bank. You raised another $11 billion in capital, despite the economic environment. KENCEL: So, now, leverage is lower. But we don’t really know where to put it.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Finance Investments Banking 57

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. HOFFMAN: So obviously, I’ve — you know, economically minded from the jump.

Treasury 52

Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The Grand Bazaar was the mastermind of the ruling Ottoman Empire , which thought that organizing thousands of merchants into a single location for shoppers to visit would establish Istanbul as an important trading center, boost economic development in the region and add to the ruling party’s wealth. For centuries, it did.

Sales 51

Sales Retail Advertising Leverage 51

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The Grand Bazaar was the mastermind of the ruling Ottoman Empire , which thought that organizing thousands of merchants into a single location for shoppers to visit would establish Istanbul as an important trading center, boost economic development in the region and add to the ruling party’s wealth. For centuries, it did.

Sales 44

Sales Retail Advertising Leverage 44

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

00:26:19 [Speaker Changed] It, it’s, it’s usually it is aggressive shorts from leveraged funds on s and p futures. So one would argue that having a greater concentration, you know, not, not to the extent, I mean, I, you know, mag, maybe it’s magnificent 50, maybe it’s magnificent 100 going forward.

Marketing 61

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 61

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 130

Concentration Economics Forecasting Communication 130

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Davos tries testing: Everyone at the World Economic Forum annual meeting — including journalists and participants — has to take a PCR test upon arrival. An ERV can economically introduce fresh ventilation air into your home. We are now two weeks away from holiday travel, so we should have a result. See below at case data.

Concentration 130

Concentration Economics Manufacturing Numbers 130