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.

Math 62

Math Currencies Startups Concentration 62

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.

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Nonprofit CFO Currencies Math 98

PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

It’s secure, it’s cheap, it’s faster than a speeding bullet. 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. Securing critical mass in payments is an incredibly hard problem. Is it one those amazing blockchain things?

Startups 43

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

That’s just the math. Treasury securities] and to give a bid to the gilt market to raise the level of gilts. 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.

Banking 100

Banking Economics Leverage Currencies 100

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

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. BRYANT: Social Security is 65. These are not dumb people.

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Economics Education Profit and Loss Banking 57

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

So the idea being, you know, that we could analyze, dissect companies anywhere from, you know, senior securities, secured down to distressed. So I think there are 4,800 equities, different securities globally. And so whenever we build a portfolio, we think about every security has a tail to it. Was that the basis?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Marketing Education 57

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.

Currencies 71

Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Investments 71

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

But within the market, the so-called security markets line is pretty much entirely flat and has been in sample and out of sample for a ridiculously long amount of time, in a ridiculously large amount of places. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. They’re paying a market price for the security.

Profit and Loss 65

Profit and Loss Valuation Forecasting Investments 65

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., operations.”.

Math 57

Math Entertainment Compliance Currencies 57

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.

Marketing 108

Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 108

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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