Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

Wall Street Journal ) see also Take ‘Potential Winners’ With a Grain of Salt : Investment fads are nothing new, as the Salton Sea’s mid-century boom-turned-bust shows—a timeless lesson. His textbook “ Investment Valuation ” is the standard in the field. class nine times.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 24, 2023

Not surprisingly, Moneyball has found its way into business and investing as well. Mean Reversion works, until it does not : Much of investing over the last century in the US has been built on betting on mean reversion, i.e. that things revert back to historical norms, sooner rather than later.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 30, 2023

The US treasury market, considered by some still as a safe haven, was anything but safe or a haven, especially at the long maturities, as long term rates soared, with inflation (not the Fed) being the key driver. Since inflation was 6.42% in 2022, the real return on a US 10-year treasury bond was -22.79%.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

” In its 2018 AFP Technology Survey , underwritten by corporate treasury management firm BELLIN , the AFP surveyed 708 corporate finance executives about their thoughts on adoption of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

for 12 years, where he dealt with mergers and acquisitions as well as corporate financing. Akita will work with Toshiyuki Okuyama and Masato Sato, two senior bankers, and a man named Hideki Hiramatsu, who will be in charge of treasury services. Akita previously worked at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

The AFP released its Corporate Cash Indicators (CCI) report, which surveys corporate treasury and finance professionals on a quarterly basis. ” Last week, reports in Reuters warned that corporate forecasts in the U.S. The cash stockpiling was not entirely unexpected.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Corporate treasury technology company HighRadius is rolling out a new cash flow forecasting solution developed using artificial intelligence (AI) technology. HighRadius said that legacy strategy is “crippling corporate treasurers from making confident short-term and long-term debt and investment decisions.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Startups helping other businesses to manage their financing proved popular with investors, but it was a Vietnamese B2B eCommerce startup that took home the largest round. PYMNTS breaks down the latest VC investments below. Modern Treasury. Small business accounting startup Xendoo announced a $3.5 based Hourly announced a $7.15

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. What is a risk free investment?

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CFO Talks

JUNE 7, 2022

Investment and credit risk knowledge. This role is oriented toward best practices of the finance function itself. Corporate finance. Treasury and investment management. Information quality and control rationalisation are top-of-mind issues for the Steward. Accounting knowledge (IFRS and taxation).

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2018

In one report, a survey by treasury management solutions provider Kyriba revealed that treasurers are wasting nearly 5,000 hours every year working with manual spreadsheets. “But what our numbers show, rather dramatically, is the cost of over-relying on spreadsheets to manage an entire finance function, like treasury. .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Corporates may not be adopting faster and real-time payments technologies as fast as consumers, but that doesn’t mean the acceleration of payments isn’t impacting corporate finance. For the corporate treasurer, this could mean real-time FX exposure management and the need for faster action to mitigate FX volatility risk.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 8, 2022

Not surprisingly, Moneyball has found its way into business and investing as well. Mean Reversion works, until it does not : Much of investing over the last century in the US has been built on betting on mean reversion, i.e. that things revert back to historical norms, sooner rather than later.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Much of that innovation has been focused on corporate finance and payments, as top financial services players have introduced new blockchain solutions in an effort to disrupt and improve corporate payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Investment in B2B FinTech startups came through a variety of channels this week, from venture capital to growth equity. In total, backers placed $273 million across companies operating in alternative finance, treasury management, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and B2B sales tech. Treasury Management. trillion market.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

Corporate treasurers gathered for the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) annual conference last week, and there, treasury professionals made clear where their priorities stand today. According to reports in Global Finance , an estimated 1,100 corporate treasurers from across the U.K. Nearly a third (31.1

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2017

According to Graham Tasman, principal at Grant Thornton’s Business Consulting and Technology practice, this balancing act creates opportunity for service providers of the corporate finance function. But CFOs plan to invest more into IT for the purpose of gaining business intelligence and data analytics capabilities down the road.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This is especially true in finance-related functions like accounting, procurement, payroll and treasury, and a new survey from Workday suggests chief financial officers are recognizing the opportunities in a more collaborative approach to their positions.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The year 2024 brings a landscape of unprecedented challenges and opportunities for corporate treasurers. From the ongoing global conflicts to the lingering effects of high inflation, corporate finance professionals are gearing up to navigate an environment marked by volatility and uncertainty.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2018

The financial institution (FI) released its latest survey , “The 2017–2018 Treasury Perspectives Survey,” conducted with Strategic Treasurer, on Thursday (March 22). A third plan to use it for debt repayment, and 28 percent said they want to use the cash for future investments. as a result of tax reform.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2019

And that’s all about using technology-based services to re-engineer treasury activities.” One of the areas of corporate finance experiencing the biggest exposure to these disruptors is global payments. ” Cross-Border Payments in the Crosshairs.

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 1, 2023

Prior to that, she served as the vice president of finance at Indigo and held financial and strategic leadership positions at Maple Leaf Foods and Bombardier Aerospace. Sinha joined the company in November 2021 as the senior vice president of corporate finance and strategy. Rowe Price, an asset management firm.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

Put simply, I possess no exclusivity here, and staying consistent with my thesis, I don't expect to expect to make money by investing based upon this data. The first is that I do not have a macro focus, and my interests in macro variables occur only in the context of corporate finance or valuation issues. So, why bother?

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 5, 2023

If you have been reading my posts, you know that I have an obsession with equity risk premiums, which I believe lie at the center of almost every substantive debate in markets and investing. In the corporate bond market, it is a default spread , an augmentation to the interest rate that you demand on a bond with more default risk.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

Some of the biggest names in banking participated in the Series E funding round for digital billing and payments company Transactis , a SaaS startup that aims to help corporations reduce their dependence on paper invoices, bills and other documents in favor of digital payments solutions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

New research finds that nearly all corporate treasurers agree that their relationship with financial institutions is a key factor in determining which bank to work with and where to invest short-term cash. The findings were detailed in the latest 2016 AFP Liquidity Survey , underwritten by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

Treasury management technology firm Reval says Brexit makes it painfully clear that, for those businesses not conducting contingency and scenario planning, their financial situations are far less stable. “Treasuries typically don’t have lots of resources,” Seward said. Following the U.K. “The future of the U.K.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The stakes are high for businesses of all sizes, and the latest data on corporates in America makes that abundantly clear. Small businesses are anxious, and there is evidence that large corporates’ cash management and investment strategies are also being shaped by political uncertainty. We share all the details below.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

One area where elimination of such processes can be of benefit is treasury management — specifically, reconciliation of transactions and liquidity management. Yet, corporate finance especially is “operating, more or less, the same [way] it has for 20 years prior. Real-Time Window To Treasury Management.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 7, 2020

ST: I’m reporting to the CEO and board of directors, providing leadership in all aspects of business and finance, including strategic planning, annual business plan, rolling forecast, financial management, treasury, regulatory reporting, internal controls, taxation, and procurement. All these are key to success.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2017

API technology isn’t new, but all of a sudden, the world of FinTech seems to be flocking to the tool as a way to expand the financial services offered to corporates. Anis Rahal, CEO of treasury management firm TreasuryXpress , has been a vocal proponent of API technology in recent months. Never in my life.

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CFO Thought Leader

JANUARY 29, 2024

Mann found a door of entry at Goldman Sachs, where after initially filling a quantitative role involving complex financing structures she subsequently transitioned to investment banking and a new focus on M&A and corporate finance in the tech and media sectors. Says Mann: “Those years were not wasted.

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Bramasol

APRIL 26, 2023

As shown below, the current Quote-to-Cash portfolio from SAP (formerly known as BRIM) includes Subscription Order Management (SOM), Convergent Charging (CC), Convergent Mediation (CM), Convergent Invoicing (CI), Corporate Finance Management (CFM) and Revenue Accounting & Reporting (RAR).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Corporate finance executives seem to be readying for real-time payments, preparing to adopt faster payment capabilities and bracing for changes to their cash flow management strategies as a result. A new report from Deutsche Bank said this industry path is guiding banks and corporates to a new destination: real-time treasury.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

His latest book could not be more timely, “The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest,” it’s all about the history of interest rates, money lending, investing speculation, funded by banks and loans and credit. According to Chancellor, interest is the single most important feature of finance, both ancient and modern.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Instead, VCs leaned conservatively toward a mix of B2B FinTechs operating in the financial management space for small businesses (SMBs) and in the treasury management market for mid-level and larger enterprises. All in all, investments totaled more than $178.6 Treasury Management. Catfoss Finance. Small Business Finance.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 11, 2021

to 37%, was anticipated, the other one, almost doubling the capital gains tax rate for those making more than a million dollars in investment income, was a surprise. To encourage investors to put their savings into stock and bond markets, the tax code is sometimes tilted to make these investments more attractive.

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