PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

However, managing foreign exchange (FX) risk is part of the territory — and, as he told PYMNTS, a calculated approach to currency exposure is key. history, businesses were relatively sheltered from changes in the currency markets. Perhaps most importantly, unexpected currency volatility can make it impossible to plan for the future.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The third is currency, with hurdle rates, for any given project, varying across currencies. Currency I have studiously avoided dealing with currencies so far, by denominating all of my illustrations in US dollars, but that may strike some of you as avoidance. Cost of equity in US $ for German project = 1% + 1.1

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

initial public offerings, with hot firms like Airbnb and DoorDash going public at valuations that collectively topped $120 billion. The pet supply giant, which traded on the stock market twice in the past before leveraged buyouts, recently filed to go public for the third time in company history. on March 13. Petco ($6 Billion) .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

MoneyGram , the money remittance giant, has its sights set on a new strategic front that looks to leverage bits and bytes beyond the hype that clouds cryptocurrencies and the rails over which they travel. dollars, convert them to XRP and, within seconds, convert them to another fiat currency. Operating as a U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The eCommerce giant teamed up with Hyperwallet to ensure that merchants using the platform could be paid quickly, in their desired currency and sans exorbitant cross-border fees. In other countries — 80 of them, to be precise — Amazon has made its Echo voice-activated smart speaker available for purchase. The fake app was charging $4.99

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

Massaro noted that a connected approach that marries network, platform and use cases might be viewed through the prism of his own company, where several apps are connected across Flywire’s network and rails, cross borders and currencies and verticals.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In my last point on inflation, I noted that a currency with higher inflation can be expected to depreciate over time against a currency with lower inflation. That expected devaluation in the high-inflation currency is not risk, though, since it can and should be incorporated into your forecasts.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

Based on our learnings from that experiment, we actually decided to make meaningful improvements in the existing rails by leveraging the payments ecosystem, and within that ecosystem, we are considering the FinTechs as well or the regulators around the world as well, including SWIFT,” said Gulru Atak, who helms the lab.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Ersek explained that Western Union is leveraging its money movement platform to handle the complex foreign exchange and settlement process that gives Amazon the ability to tap into consumer markets in the 200 countries that Western Union serves.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 18, 2023

In the short run, there can be distortions in public market valuations as we saw in 2001 and we saw prior to that in 2007, and prior to that in 2000, in ‘99. I started at Blackstone in July of ’98, and I guess what was going on that year, you had like a Southeast Asian currency crisis. BARATTA: Yeah. In the long run. BARATTA: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CHANCELLOR: And look — yeah, but then if you look at the valuation of the market at that time, the market was — the U.S. CHANCELLOR: And look — yeah, but then if you look at the valuation of the market at that time, the market was — the U.S. CHANCELLOR: They had the equity allocation.

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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. And last market question, so we’ve seen equity valuations come down.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

a share, a price that would decrease Uber’s $60 billion valuation by 30 percent. The skillset will branch out over the next year and beyond, naturally, and reports say the new payments skill will leverage voice recognition technology – Giving new meaning to putting money where your mouth is, securely. billion in funding.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Walmart Pay comes to market with a few built-in advantages: it leverages the Walmart.com app, which is used by 20M+ people roaming around their stores each month, it works on every sort of smartphone out there, and they control the POS in all of their stores, just like Starbucks does. Zenefits’ Valuation Cut. Sizzle or Fizzle?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

This week, luxury online marketplace Farfetch filed to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at a valuation, rumored by outlets such as CNBC, to be as much as $6 billion. The online marketplace brings those two sides of the commerce equation from far-flung locales, time zones and currencies.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

The exposure you get in investment banking, I was a leveraged finance banker by background. And so we go back to the basics of what our job should be, risk underwriting, risk assessment, asset prices are different from asset valuation. I mean the valuation is the future cash flow discounted at a risk-free rate plus a risk premium.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2017

Thus, a possible tech stock market fizzle, should this indeed be a harbinger, where the $2 billion valuation is the same as implied by a Blue Apron funding round two years ago. The ascendant tech IPO that, well, snapped when it reported results? Turns out that investors get nervous when profits prove elusive.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

But plenty of valuation measures, it has no applicability for price-to-sales. ASNESS: Well, first of all, I’m going to somewhat disappoint you saying we do not take very big bets on views like timing asset classes based on valuation. But I do not recommend trading on just valuation, except that sin a little. ASNESS: Yeah.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

CONROD: A lot of the funds that were fully invested by the time with the Thai baht crisis and the currency crisis in late ’97, early January ’98, we’re really hurt. Some of the large — some of the larger endowments have already made some allocations in — in the crypto and the digital currency world, so it’s …. CONROD: (Inaudible).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

Lately, though, they’re probably tossing and turning over the difficulties with raising capital coupled with the simultaneous descent of their venture’s valuations. There’s always a lot to do and never enough time to get it all done.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2022

SCHWARTZ: And whose currency is up on the year? They got a lot of leverage. Isn’t that just a currency bet? SCHWARTZ: But even broad developed markets, they’re half the valuation of the U.S. This is — RITHOLTZ: Right. SCHWARTZ: You know, it’s a very interesting dynamic. Not America, but Brazil.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. and what cross currency basis, et cetera, takes a while to assimilate at all. You know, the leverage in the system builds.

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