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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Cloud-based finance software Bill.com can now facilitate international payments in 106 currencies and 137 countries, the company announced in a press release on Wednesday, Sept. But businesses need a partner that can help them manage the complexities that come with processing multi-currency invoices and making payments in local currencies.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 21, 2023

By the end of 2021, it was clear that this bout of inflation was not as transient a phenomenon as some had made it out to be, and the big question leading in 2022, for investors and markets, is how inflation will play out during the year, and beyond, and the consequences for stocks, bonds and currencies.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 11, 2023

Country Risk: Drivers and Measures. An investment in Nigeria or Turkey clearly exposes a firm or investor to more risks than an otherwise similar investment in Germany or Canada, but why? Country Risk: Currency and Cost of Capital.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 27, 2022

In this post, I will begin with a quick review of my 2021 valuation, then move on to the price action in 2021 and 2022 and then update my valuation to reflect the company's current numbers. My IPO Valuation I valued Zomato, soon after it filed its prospectus for its initial public offering, in July 2021. 76 per share.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

Coinbase has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round, giving the digital currency startup a post-money valuation of $1.6 With the bitcoin market surging, Coinbase has facilitated almost $15 billion in digital currency exchange in just the first half of 2017, which is five times more than was exchanged in all of 2016.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

A strongly growing India needs massive investments in infrastructure to succeed, and the Adani Group seemed uniquely qualified because of its perceived capacity to deliver on its promises, as well as its political connections. In contrast, your investment in Krupps is less likely to be affected much by your views on the German economy.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. But Software-as-a-Service emerged as a hot spot, too, with the largest investment round of the week going to a B2B eCommerce SaaS provider.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange operator, has raised a fresh round of funding that gives it a valuation of more than $8 billion.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. Investment Implications: Asset Classes, Geographies and Companies. The Lead In. Flight to Safety and Collectibles.

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JULY 7, 2020

The number would be a drop from the company’s previous valuation, due to worldwide conditions surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, the first such drop in valuation since 2016, according to Bloomberg. Temasek has also recently been in talks to invest as much as $100 million in Indian food delivery firm Zomato.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

Weeks after Facebook took aim at its core business, Seattle-based Remitly notched $135 million in funding at a valuation of almost $1 billion. Generation Investment Management, a long-term investment vehicle that was co-founded by Al Gore, led the company’s fundraise.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 9, 2023

In a third post on July 1, 2022 , I pointed to inflation as a key culprit in the retreat of risk capital, i.e., capital invested in the riskiest segments of every market, and presented evidence of the impact on risk premiums (bond default spreads and equity risk premiums) in markets. Second Order Effects: Risk Capital and Risk Premia.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 8, 2022

Not surprisingly, Moneyball has found its way into business and investing as well. After all, we get our restaurant choices from Yelp reviews, our movie recommendations from Rotten Tomatoes, and we have even built crypto currencies around the notion of crowd-checking transactions. Don't get me wrong!

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2021

A funding round earlier this month put Roblox’s valuation at $29.5 The SEC’s issue is over how Roblox recognizes revenue from the sale of its currency, Robux, according to the memo seen by Reuters. Earlier this month, Roblox raised $520 million in a funding round led by Altimeter Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Currency transfer and finding ways for consumers to avoid the inevitable fees is a hot spot for FinTech startups. With Revolut, the money can be spent in over 90 currencies around the world at the cheapest exchange rate available, the interbank rate, with no fees, at least for now. Last week in investments. Revolut, a U.K.-based

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2022

By the end of 2021, it was clear that this bout of inflation was not as transient a phenomenon as some had made it out to be, and the big question leading in 2022, for investors and markets, is how inflation will play out during the year, and beyond, and the consequences for stocks, bonds and currencies.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 13, 2022

Country Risk: Drivers and Measures An investment in Nigeria or Turkey clearly exposes a firm or investor to more risks than an otherwise similar investment in Germany or Canada, but why? That increase in interest rates is not restricted to the US dollar, as local currency government bond rates have risen around the world.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

There are multiple definitions that you will see offered, from it being the cost of raising capital for that business to an opportunity cost , i.e., a return that you can make investing elsewhere, to a required return for investors in that business.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The round saw the company's valuation hit over $215 million. While it initially focused on currency in online checkouts, the company has branched out to work on checkout and fraud detection, integrating with companies like Shopify , Magento , BigCommerce , WooCommerce and Salesforce Commerce Cloud , according to the the report.

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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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AUGUST 28, 2020

The investment came from its existing shareholders, the Canadian private-equity firm Novacap and Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, one of the largest Canadian institutional investors. If Nuvei goes public, a source told Bloomberg the IPO would boost that valuation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

as well as other new and existing investors, also participated in the round, which brings Figure’s total amount raised to more than $225 million and its valuation to $1.2 One of our core investment theses is that every stock, bond, currency and commodity will eventually be digitized,” said Pompliano. and abroad.”. and abroad.”.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

Amid rising interest and investment in digital currencies like bitcoin, some countries are issuing new warnings about the volatility involved in cryptocurrency trade. The company has a valuation of $11.9 18), the central bank of Denmark called bitcoin investments “deadly” and warned investors to avoid it.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

According to CoinDesk , the latest to receive payments are the digital assets team at Fidelity Investments and LinkedIn Co-founder Reid Hoffman. The new funding, led by RPM Ventures and partners at DST Global, brings the company’s total raised to more than $120 million, with its valuation at $365 million. Last year, the U.S.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. In fact, since trading has been suspended on both indices, the extent of the damage is probably understated.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

This week, RPA startup Automation Anywhere made waves with its $300 million investment from the SoftBank Vision Fund, reports said Thursday (Nov. The investment now values Automation Anywhere at $2.6 While Automation Anywhere’s funding was the largest of the week, its valuation is not the biggest. million raised, U.K.-based

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

  The transcript from this week’s MiB: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments , is below. Barry Ritholtz] This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Graham Foster’s pm at Orbis Investment Management. They have a truly unique approach to investing. Is that poker, is that investing sounds like both.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 12, 2023

To put risk capital in perspective, it is best to start with a definition of risk that is comprehensive and all-inclusive, and that is to think of risk as a combination of danger (downside) and opportunity (upside) and to consider how investments vary in terms of exposure to both.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

At the same time that bitcoin’s market cap was falling, rival digital currencies Ripple XRP and Ether were battling it out for the second-place spot in terms of digital currencies. New data shows a projected 14 percent increase in fraud attempts during the upcoming 2018 holiday season, with fraud likely to peak on Thanksgiving Day.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In other news, people can start mining crypto in the comfort of their own home without having to invest in a huge machine. The device comes equipped with an Intel Celeron Processor J Series processor and an AMD Radeon RX570 graphics card, in addition to a 1 TB drive to hold the blockchains needed for currency management.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In a third post on July 1, 2022 , I pointed to inflation as a key culprit in the retreat of risk capital, i.e., capital invested in the riskiest segments of every market, and presented evidence of the impact on risk premiums (bond default spreads and equity risk premiums) in markets.

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Planful

AUGUST 12, 2019

Investing in new capital assets to grow the business. It’s used to determine things like: Company valuation. Fundraising ability – you’ll need to prove to investors that you are a healthy business that can provide an acceptable return on investment. How do I handle foreign currency valuations and adjustments?

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

And Japan’s SoftBank is seeking money for another big tech investment, even amid the falling valuations of its other significant holdings. Japan’s SoftBank is seeking money for another big tech investment, even with the falling valuations of its other significant holdings after WeWork ’s botched initial public offering.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

initial public offerings, with hot firms like Airbnb and DoorDash going public at valuations that collectively topped $120 billion. The platform even has its own in-game currency called “Robux,” which users can exchange for real-world currency. However, Bloomberg last estimated Oscar’s valuation at $3.2 on March 13.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 14, 2023

Inflation: The Full Story. I wrote my first post on this blog in 2008, and inflation merited barely a mention until 2020, though it is an integral component of investing and valuation. That, of course, brings us to cryptos, NFTs and other, more recent, entrants into the investment choice list.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

As noted in this space late last month, Remitly, which focuses on remittances, said it raised $85 million with an implied valuation of $1.5 The latest funding round was led by Prosus’ PayU, an existing investor, with participation from a host of firms including Generation Investment Management, Princeville Global and others.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 25, 2023

I also like finance, perhaps not as much as sports, but there are winners and losers in the investment game as well. If you want to see how intrinsic valuation would work at a sports franchise, you are welcome to check out my intrinsic valuation of the Los Angeles Clippers , when Steve Ballmer offered $2 billion for that franchise in 2014.

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