PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Accounting for everything, especially when it comes to credit — in other words, taking stock and measure of where lending activities have been concentrated, where risk is and where losses may loom — is as much art as science. That could be especially troublesome for retailers which also issue cards and are reporting under CECL’s rules.

Accounting 63

Accounting Banking Forecasting CFO 63

Future CFO

APRIL 27, 2020

The Asian Liquidity Stress Indicator (ALSI) climbed to its second weakest level, and the number of companies rated B3 and below continued to increase in the first quarter of 2020 following a surge of downgrades in Q1, said Moody's Investors Service. . The ALSI climbed to 38.7% in March from 32.9%

Concentration 40

Concentration Credit Risk Economics Numbers 40

PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

The numbers only begin to tell a tale — one where the ending seems far off, shrouded in mystery, and more than a bit foreboding. The idea of hunkering at home means that at least some economic activity shifts online. The coronavirus crisis has caused a swift slowdown in economic activity across the U.S. and the world.

Concentration 52

Concentration Prioritization Economics Startups 52

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Accounting for everything, especially when it comes to credit — in other words, taking stock and measure of where lending activities have been concentrated, where risk is and where losses may loom — is as much art as science. That could be especially troublesome for retailers which also issue cards and are reporting under CECL’s rules.

Banking 56

Banking Forecasting CFO Concentration 56

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. Over time, consolidation among service providers has resulted in large numbers of banks reliant on a small number of service providers.”.

Banking 46

Banking Compliance Currencies Concentration 46

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

Marketing 130

Marketing Investments Auditing Restructuring 130

Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The music companies provided marketing support, seeking out radio stations that would carry their music, and distributional backing to get albums to retailers. That said, the movie business remained concentrated, with the biggest players dominating each segment of the business.

Entertainment 77

Entertainment Profit and Loss Numbers Marketing 77

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

Investments 100

Investments Valuation Auditing Restructuring 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 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 Tom Weaver , CEO of Flypay , to discuss how its recent business model pivot helped its restaurant payments platform to ignite.

Concentration 57

Concentration Numbers Technology Economics 57

PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

McKibbin, who are affiliated with Korea University and The Australian National University, said “just calculating the number of canceled tourist trips, declines in retail trade and similar factors is not enough to get the full impact of SARS” because of the linkages within and between economies and sectors. percent to 4.4

Economics 66

Economics Concentration Sales Retail 66

The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Companies looking to advance in this new economic environment will continue to rely on the same four strategies that have proven successful over the past 16 months. 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.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

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

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Automation doesn’t reduce the number of jobs, they claim — it just changes what types are available. However, that’s not the picture the trends are painting, according to a January 2016 study by the World Economic Forum titled “The Future of Jobs: Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.”. “The

Concentration 41

Concentration Data Analysis Technology Startups 41

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

” Who are the number one users of TurboTax? We were 75% retail. So bringing the two firms together, you really made us 50/50 retail and institutional, and that’s been very important. And you see that in the numbers, right? You have half the number of public companies that you had in 2000.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 86

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Finance Technology 86

PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

As reported in this space and elsewhere, Ripple said in recent months that a number of financial firms have been signing on to its offerings for cross-border payments. Raj Makanjee, chief executive of FNB Retail, said, “We are rapidly expanding our digital payments ecosystem by providing customers with helpful digital payments solutions.

Concentration 62

Concentration Banking Leverage Economics 62

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. Historically, that failure rate was eclipsed by the sheer number of new business starts each year. We have both.

Concentration 53

Concentration Retail Advertising Economics 53

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. How do you crunch the numbers on that, and where do you come out on small cap and value?

Investments 65

Investments Marketing Economics Risk Management 65

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

And that difference has translated to an accompanying belief in retail that the different millennial required a different commerce that can be observed in the proliferation of one-hour delivery options and on-demand services pitched to digitally focused urban millennials. What It Means For Retail .

Advertising 75

Advertising Concentration Retail Startups 75

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

Euromonitor used the same optimism, comparing it to other BRICs and predicting it as the country likely to see the strongest economic growth. India’s smartphone users are expected to number 244 million in 2017, surpassing the number of smartphone users in the U.S. One of those routes to market is the availability of cash.

Concentration 40

Concentration Advertising Education Forecasting 40

PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2016

The Silicon Docks is a nickname for the area in Dublin where there is a concentration of high-tech companies. We’ve also just pulled off an economic recovery and return to growth that ensures our credibility on the world stage.”. As the dust continued to settle after the U.K.’s s decision to exit the E.U., she continued.

Startups 42

Startups Concentration Economics eCommerce 42

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. 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.

Investments 116

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 116

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

They looked around for places that had a large concentration of senders and receivers online and a use case for payments that needed a digital upgrade. Which also means that the economics for the “vast majority” of transactions taking place on eBay — where PayPal makes its profits managing payments on eBay today — won’t change much either.

Accounting 44

Accounting Concentration Numbers Economics 44

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.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 61

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

PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

You, the chipmunk, will make a decision based on a number of variables that are driven by your past experiences and the current state of the environment. Just like the consumer that every retailer and innovator hopes to attract makes their decisions about where and how to shop in the physical store. There’s plenty for everyone!

Concentration 54

Concentration Retail Numbers Credit Risk 54

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

You get a BA in economics and poli sci from the University of Delaware. And it had to do with the discipline of the models that he used and how he segmented economic liquidity, investor liquidity, and then technicals and and breath conditions and understood how they melded together. What was the original career plan?

Investments 57

Investments Marketing Concentration Economics 57

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. ’cause bad things can happen to undifferentiated retailers. It’s what the much maligned retail investor was doing. And 00:28:03 [Speaker Changed] That’s an amazing number.

Benchmarking 103

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 103

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. Ten years after the world wide web and http was introduced, we had a powerful internet economy driving trillions of dollars in positive economic activity. Why wouldn’t he?

Banking 44

Banking Transportation Investments Currencies 44

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And if you’re able to do that in a diverse number of markets and asset classes, while managing risk in the markets that aren’t trending, you know, that’s in general how trend following works. And now, some of the retailers are talking about easing Amazon and Walmart. They were in a mad dash to hire. They overhired.

Profit and Loss 118

Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 118

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

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

And then I left there and joined a number of my colleagues from Drexel and launched a business that as it turns out, was pretty much a carbon copy of the business we have today. And fortunately for us, there were a number of large scale alternative asset managers, like Carlyle, that were looking to grow in private credit.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

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

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

APRIL 11, 2023

DAMODARAN: I am interested in numbers. I’m naturally a numbers person. To me, storytelling is much more — I mean, if you think about the history of humanity, for thousands of years, the way we pass down information was with stories, not numbers. It has allowed for this acceleration of number crunching.

Valuation 115

Valuation Education Finance Investments 115

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

You turned out to be the first dual economics financial management major at Quinnipiac. And before you knew it, she was the number one salesperson for selling to professional salons in the whole country. RITHOLTZ: The Bureau of Business Prevention is how the retail brokers used to describe compliance. RITHOLTZ: Really?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 61

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Compliance Investments Finance 61

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And since that happened, I don’t know, about four or five years ago, the fund has been putting up great numbers, outperforming doing really, really well. And at that point, I decided what I really wanted to do was be a PhD in economics. And we held it for, I don’t know, for a number of years.

Investments 114

Investments Marketing Numbers Entertainment 114

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. So it’s like, yeah. It, it’s, it’s a totally, it’s, it’s very different.

Marketing 61

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 61