PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

The remittance business is massive and massively important to the individuals and the countries that receive them, but in the face of other retail payments innovation, they keep a relatively low profile. It’s a big deal, but it is mostly an area of financial services that goes wholly unnoticed except by the population that use and rely on it.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

It’s not exactly the sort of inspiring narrative that one might like to hear from a CFO – especially when framed in the context of five straight quarters of disappointing and precipitous declines and the retail giant’s worst performance in eight years. . First, overall, the government reported that retail sales were up – and by a lot.

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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. MARTIN: I mean, it was incredibly interesting to watch the new retail interest in certain stocks and why they had picked certain stocks. RITHOLTZ: That’s interesting. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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. It had gone from a fairly, fairly heavy retail business to a very institutional business. So we, we became, we went from fixed income and j Aaron to thick fixed income currency and commodities.

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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. Knowing those two data points – retail price and what that consumer paid — is like a little reward to that consumer that they saved $25. When Walmart Pay released their numbers, they talked only of percentages. Next time, guys?

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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. Because the idea of syndication is that you make a giant purchase and then you sell it off in smaller units to really more of a retail investor. Even retail assets are doing pretty well right now.

Investments 103

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

Because then I knew what the wholesale rate was and the retail rate. Import, export, finance, marketing, wholesale, retail, customer service, security, territory, logistics. 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.

Economics 57

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

They provide physical or virtual platforms (like a shopping mall) for multiple groups (like retailers and shoppers) to get together. Put yourselves in the shoes of the Revolution Money team back in 2007, pitching its platform to retailers and consumers. Platforms’ Critical Success Factor: Crossing the Critical Mass Frontier.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

Investments 116

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

and what cross currency basis, et cetera, takes a while to assimilate at all. You know, part of why I read inventory numbers at retailers, you know, you talked about semis earlier, I think you have to think about the whole construct of what’s driving topline revenue for companies. The dollar is the reserve currency in the world.

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