VCFO

DECEMBER 10, 2021

You can do your own math on what this will mean to you. a currency) over time. When the percentage is moving up and to the right over time, that indicates that a unit of currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods. That is a huge number but still does not capture the total U.S. What is Inflation?

Currencies

PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

The number of accepted payment methods is increasing, and the number of clicks and pages to checkout is decreasing. When it comes to language and currencies, said Drouart, one must discard the conventional wisdom that more is better. Start with currencies. Currency Before Language. Drouart’s advice?

Currencies

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Take, for example, how the Fed views statistics, such as employment numbers, when it’s thinking about inflation or raising rates so quickly, which is really constraining to people on an actual budget facing other inflationary pressures, and, by the way, not actually doing anything about inflation. So those numbers are disparate.

Banking

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.

Currencies

PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Consumers always have their debit card handy and and can provide that number to a sender – knowing that if something goes wrong they are protected. Senders don’t have to ask receivers for the ABA and routing number of the bank account they’d like the money deposited to either – and then when the 99.9 What Went So Wrong.

Profit and Loss

PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2016

By the end of yesterday – that number had bounced up another trillion dollars. “The math is the math, not matter how much we like London,” noted one marketplace lending exec on the condition of anonymity. By the end of Friday – $2 trillion was gone from the world markets. to get back on the SS E.U.)

Math

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. All in, falsifiying those accounts to inflate their numbers cost $5 million. 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.

Banking

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.

Currencies

PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

Foot traffic was down, the number of in-store transactions were down – at Macy’s that dip was 7 percent and far worse, they said, than last year, which was also down. It’s all about the math. We’ve done a number of studies to better understand how consumers decide where to start their shopping journey online.

Retail

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. 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. BITTERLY MICHELL: … was — no, no.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

She has had a number of different positions within PIM, including managing their flagship core real estate fund. She has lived and invested through not just the great financial crisis, but the SNL crisis and a number of other fascinating experiences in real estate. If there was an error in a report or a number, I went ballistic.

Investments

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. A number of car companies are going with Apple or Google platforms. WhatsApp did it, why can’t I? Once they get it into it, they realize that figuring out the solution is really hard.

Startups

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.

Currencies

PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Now if we only knew the denominator and could do the math to see what those numbers really look like. When Walmart Pay released their numbers, they talked only of percentages. Next time, guys? SMB Working Capital. Invoices are paid by the business via Amex within two business days.

Valuation

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

Number one, a school district is a business. And number two, and I think that they were like, I’m sure there’s a note coming after this with a congressional allocation, and it never came. BRYANT: Number two, money is emotional. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Economics

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. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And you know, it’s been an honor to have a number of awards to it. So yeah, man, that was the idea.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. It’s kind of a silly number, but people are going to think you’re smart or dumb based on that number.

Finance

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 13, 2024

New York Times ) • The pimple patch becomes a breakout fashion statement : No longer just a skin-care tool, the patches have become chic accessories — and a form of currency in lunchrooms and locker bays. It’s not because they’re not good enough at math. Now the strategy is starting to bear fruit.

Math

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

You can use this in a number of ways. And that’s a pretty good number. RITHOLTZ: So like the 40 percent number, what are the odds of this happening? Stocks usually make 10 percent a year, and don’t hold me to any of these numbers. What you’re going to earn on that money is an important number.

Profit and Loss

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

And I was kind of intrigued and so I said, can we discuss it, and he laid it out on a conference table and I said, what’s this number? And then I said, what’s this number down here, and he said, this is last year’s earnings. And that number was $160 million. So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

and I don’t know if this is from the book or or my research, Forbes settled on that number. 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. Right, right.

Math

PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

“For Alipay, remittances are core to this business, and whether that becomes remittances that get integrated into mobile and into wallet, or whether they remain cash, they want to make sure they have that reach around the world in a number of different ways.”. Not to mention the 2.4 But in the U.S.,

Math

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. If you look at the, if you look at the filing and you look at the size of the company and the revenue, the entire yearly revenue numbers would be a bad quarter right? That’s unbelievable.

Marketing

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s sold ungodly numbers of copies, and is on everybody’s best finance books of all-time list. When a professor says, “Come in, we’ll talk about the assignment,” and you come in and say, “I’ve already crunched the number. SCHWARTZ: And whose currency is up on the year? Here’s the data.

Investments

CFO Talks

MAY 13, 2025

In South Africas volatile environment – where currency swings, regulation, and systemic risk add pressure to every line item – CFOs are not just backroom advisors in M&A. Own the Numbers – And the Risks Due diligence is not about ticking off a checklist. The numbers lie if you dont lift the lid.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations. Honest back testing, really looking at the numbers versus exaggerating returns and, and making up the claim that something’s live when it’s not.

Leverage

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Behavioral finance has a number of fathers, including Dick Thor and, and Danny Kahneman. Colin Camerer : So I, some of it was when I was in college at Johns Hopkins, I, I studied physics and math. And number theory was just too mind blowing, you know, for me. The math doesn’t math. That was too abstract.

Profit and Loss