CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Looking ahead, I aim to continue serving on boards that focus on skills development and small business growth, as these are critical areas for economic empowerment and job creation. When I eventually retire from active employment, I envision dedicating my time to various boards, where I can share my expertise and help shape impactful programmes.

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Future CFO

APRIL 13, 2025

Mornings are typically all about concentrated focus, starting with ensuring alignment with our clients across key objectives like risk management, credit solutions, and employee benefits strategies. The fast-paced nature of today's risks keeps me motivated and engaged.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

While the job has always had a strong risk-management component, the basic task was simple: making sure the company has cash available, when and where it’s needed. Predictive analytics can forecast future financial scenarios with greater accuracy, contributing to risk management and strategic planning. Not anymore.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The toolbox is open, and the fine-tuning is underway, as China’s policymakers and financial institutions respond to the thorny economic challenges of the post-pandemic era. Miao described a variety of initiatives designed to strengthen management, accelerate innovation, and improve both wealth management and fintech risk management.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 29, 2025

Their focus is on generating alpha with high conviction concentrated portfolios. You get a bachelor’s in economics from Colgate and then an MBA in finance from NYU Stern. I was an economics and English major. And you know, we’re a, we’re a concentrated manager. What does concentrated mean to you?

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Earlier this year, Oracle identified four repeating techniques that the most ambitious and inventive organizations have used to obtain a competitive advantage and achieve significant development: business model innovation; mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, accelerate the financial close, and developing a risk-aware culture.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The primary reasons cited for these plans were fears of recession and uncertainty in the economic environment (59% of respondents) and inflationary pressures (58%).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Smart technologies have enormous potential to improve both human life and the health of the planet,” stated the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Wild Wide Web report. However, many unintended consequences have also surfaced,” the study added, noting that “cyberattacks have become a common hazard for individuals and businesses.”.

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Global Finance

JUNE 14, 2024

Financial institutions have been facing tough challenges between economic uncertainty and an unprecedented technology-powered speed of change, especially since the Spring Bank Run of 2023. Overall, balanced risk management is the ultimate goal for banks. This strengthens financial institutions’ resiliency and security.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For Boo, discipline and resilience in working capital preservation are critical both in good and bad economic times. “To He also recommends continuing dialogues with banks that offer market insights to craft good strategies for funding and risk management.

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Global Finance

JUNE 9, 2025

Areas of concentration are determined in part by the lab’s “innovation radar,” a proprietary trend-indexing framework that systematically searches for potentially game-changing innovations. Independent Fintech Labs Some innovation centers are unaligned with banks, VC firms, or economic development organizations.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 14, 2023

Third-party viability was the top fast-emerging risk that organisations are monitoring most closely in the 2Q23 survey, Gartner pointed out, adding that financial planning uncertainty was ranked the third among emerging risks for enterprises, followed by cloud concentration risk. Flawed financial planning assumptions.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 10, 2024

A look back at 2023 and it becomes clear that persistent challenges were the norm for much of the year – be it in the form of social, geopolitical or economic. Insolvency in Asia The Allianz Research paper, Global Economic Outlook 2023-25 , notes that businesses face declining demand and higher costs while pricing power is fading.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 11, 2024

in 2022, according to the International Monetary Fund’s July World Economic Outlook 2024. 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. trillion Nigerian naira ($10.82 billion) in 2023 from 8.99

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Spreadym

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Debt Management: If you have debt, like credit card debt or student loans, develop a plan to manage and pay down your liabilities efficiently. Risk Management: Assess your insurance needs, including health, life, disability, and property insurance, to protect against unexpected events that could impact your financial well-being.

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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. With no further ado, my interview of GCM’s Ken Tropin.

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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. And that led her to various jobs at Wasserstein Perella McKinsey’s Asset Management Group.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” Matthew: It’s very risk management based. And most people have very underserved in a risk management perspective, so you can place the right insurance products along with investments and get a whole financial plan going. And the economics, they ultimately worked out long term. That’s it.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And, and our vision was to create an investment partnership like you’d find with a Wellington or a capital group with the risk management expertise of Citadel wrapped in a specialist structure at Woodline. 00:21:47 [Speaker Changed] And a lot of funds that have found success seem to have run some pretty concentrated portfolios.

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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: … risk management. It was at Bank One, at the time. It was called the First Scholars Program, and they targeted Liberal Arts majors. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. So that comes out in position sizing and conviction and just making sure that you’re thinking about all the things that could go wrong if you’re taking a more concentrated position in something. So, it cost the firm $320,000, well worth every penny?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

And we’ve talked about whether we go deeper on existing strategies, we build new businesses, we find somebody who can help him more as almost a co-CIO with risk management, with the investment process. They built their infrastructure, risk management, and hired great PMs to lead these businesses. RITHOLTZ: Tell us.

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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. Cean: No, we usually want to make sure that we’re hitting on risk management, so we look at insurances. And the reality is just no one really trains us to do this. Cean: Correct.

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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. So obviously, risk managers, you know, and CROs were very focused on how do we manage that risk and diversify that credit risk that they were taking on in mid-market companies.

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