PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

When it comes to language and currencies, said Drouart, one must discard the conventional wisdom that more is better. Instead, Drouart said merchants should consider how they can target the 80 or 90 percent of buyers who transact in a certain language or currency, and aim to serve that majority first. Start with currencies.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Wu said the company had to coordinate with the vendor, figure out international shipping and logistics and navigate the challenges of cross-border payments and foreign currency. “It Different vendors wanted to be paid through different methods and in different currencies. It was a nice crash course early on,” Wu said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In Switzerland, bitcoin continues to proliferate as a viable currency — most recently with the help of Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), Switzerland’s largest railway company. SBB announced that Swiss customers with bitcoin wallets will be able to purchase bitcoin from 1,000 of its railway ticket machines nationwide.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2016

Going local means thinking and optimizing for: languages needed, supported currencies, regional logistics and regulation, and then, of course, payment and payments processing. Currency conversions, for example, can throw a wrench into the experience if not properly optimized and that’s where partnerships come into play.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2016

“The math is the math, not matter how much we like London,” noted one marketplace lending exec on the condition of anonymity. currency as a haven could boost some SMBs (though admittedly could also wreak havoc on the bottom line of those that work across borders). to get back on the SS E.U.) freedom of motion.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Yeah, it’s a funny thing about those permissionless, non-governed, non-regulated currencies – there’s no one to turn to. But, don’t you worry, it’s all math-based so nothing can go wrong, so keep clinging to that. In June, $50 million of Ethereum – a competing digital currency – was also boosted by hackers. .

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

And based on the feedback that we hear from companies who are private, the public currency is still very strong. I understood then that, effectively, fair value was determined by a variety of mathematical — a bunch of math, for lack of a better description. RITHOLTZ: That’s interesting. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

He’d teach them about a variety of things going on in the world – science, math, archaeology, literature. His disdain isn’t because money is germ-laden paper passed from who-knows-who doing who-knows-what with it, but because he says it’s the currency of criminals. Samantha and Nick would boot up “Jack” every couple of days.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Now if we only knew the denominator and could do the math to see what those numbers really look like. That doesn’t make it a slam dunk — after all, nothing in the mobile payments space is a sure thing — but at least Walmart Pay has taken some important steps to eliminate barriers at the jump. Next time, guys? SMB Working Capital.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Its creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, gave it all of the qualities of cash, but in a digital format: peer-to-peer transfer of a currency in the absence of any intermediary that is pretty much anonymous — only wallet IDs are shared. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number.

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

We don’t want to exaggerate the impact…but trillions of dollars in wealth have been created in digital currency in record time. . Note: Cryptocurrency is digital currency secured by a technology called a blockchain that records every transaction made involving the currency. Yes, even if you were bad at math in high school.) .

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

That’s just the math. If you’re not in it, you’re not going to benefit from the upside. What we’ve seen is actually more money created than what was sensibly needed to save the economy, and it’s obviously not going into the real economy.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. So the 00:59:37 [Speaker Changed] Currency hedge is very helpful.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

It’s like being asked to figure out the solution to one of those unsolved math problems that mathematicians work on for years before they go insane. WhatsApp did it, why can’t I? Once they get it into it, they realize that figuring out the solution is really hard.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

MPD CEO Karen Webster did the “back of the envelope” math in an article last summer (right around the time Android was launching its payment platforms) to reveal that, of the 187 million smartphones in use in the U.S., It’s kind of tricky to tell. But that doesn’t mean PYMNTS isn’t trying.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. Actually, as in the color of US currency, Barry, it’s always been green, is my point. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there. RITHOLTZ: Right. BRYANT: Number two, money is emotional. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

It’s all about the math. Nordstrom reported that one-fifth of its sales now are via the online channel and Macy’s boasts that it’s the sixth largest online retailer, with double-digit increases in that channel year over year. So if online sales are increasing — and even at traditional retailers — why are they still in such a world of hurt?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. They understand currencies. I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. RITHOLTZ: Applied Mathematics, Quants, those guys, yeah.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. The Crypto Has No Clothes. In concept. The Need for a Balanced View.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. And I, I think that I kind of triangulated on it. I have no family history. I have no, I, you know, knew a real estate developer I thought was really great. I knew I wanted to do something in business.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

and what cross currency basis, et cetera, takes a while to assimilate at all. The dollar is the reserve currency in the world. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? And then all of a sudden you get these aha moments. Literally, you know, I could sit there for six hours, like, now I get it. Where are we?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

They said at that moment they were selling crypto as it’s gonna replace fiat currency. And they put some Bitcoin on my phone and we walked into Palo Alto to the one coffee shop that accepted Bitcoin as currency. Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. Oh, really?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The news affected the strength of China’s currency , which weakened to 7.15 Our ‘back of the envelope’ math suggests the impact [of the new tariffs] will be [a] roughly $0.50-$0.75 [annualized per share] hit to earnings with roughly $0.30-$0.50 against the American dollar after the news. from iPhones,” the brokerage said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The other $185 million is all fine, $100 million for the CFPB and $85 million for the Comptroller of the Currency. In this case, Wells has already paid back most of the money consumers were wrongly charged — the payback part of the order is only $5 million.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. But a lot of what we do in macro, and an early insight of ours, frankly, about 1995 at Goldman Sachs, was if you look at the factors, again, it was really value, momentum and size at that point, and apply them to macro decisions, what country to be in, what currency to be in.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

The addition of MoneyGram — a very familiar and trusted American payments brand — to the equation, however, might just change the math a little bit, as it gives Alipay the opportunity to expose the American customer to the bigger world of the Alipay payments lifestyle. “We But in the U.S.,

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. So we, we became, we went from fixed income and j Aaron to thick fixed income currency and commodities. You had a lot of currency forwards trading, which made se made sense. Made sense.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2022

SCHWARTZ: And whose currency is up on the year? Isn’t that just a currency bet? And I’m like, “Well, if Bob Shiller is putting on the seatbelts, maybe he’s done the math, maybe I should be wearing a seatbelt in the back of the car.” This is — RITHOLTZ: Right. Not America, but Brazil.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

Like investing in this kind of stuff and I had total life saving for the time of $2,000 and I converted my total life savings of $2,000 into Polish zloty, their currency, went down with my translator to the post office and subscribed to the very first privatization in Poland. So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred.

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