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

AUGUST 5, 2016

Perhaps the most glowing of reviews is related to the iris scanning technology that eliminates the need to have a fingerprint unlock the phone. Authenticating the consumer to mobile banking apps and payments give this technology the potential to unleash a lot of commerce opportunities. Iris Scanning. Dynamic Pricing Algorithms.

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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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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But maybe you’re a bit wary of the technology. 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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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

It should be a call to action to the cybersecurity regulators that, when innovation — even intellectually and technologically sophisticated innovation — goes off the rails, it’s time to give a good hard look with an eye to reining it way, way in. Bitcoin is a fascinating technology on the merits. That means bitcoin.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

That’s just the math. They’re not necessarily the same thing, though they do share commonalities in that Bitcoin, for example, was created off of blockchain technology, which has been around for decades. If you’re not in it, you’re not going to benefit from the upside. That’s when the famous Bitcoin white paper came out.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” The blockchain of course is the underlying technology behind bitcoin. What is it you ask? WhatsApp did it, why can’t I?

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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. You can have two or 3% fed funds rates and still have technologically induced deflation.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

But while the payments and mobile industries themselves are eager to get their technology into the hands of consumers, those consumers seem reluctant to adopt the new platforms. Like any hotbed of technological innovation, many competitors have emerged and crowded the marketplace with options. So, what’s the disconnect?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. We’re not starting businesses with employees and technology. 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.

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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. And the last piece of it, which I’ve become really passionate about over the past really kind of five to 10 years of my career is the technology and platform. They understand currencies.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

It’s all about the math. The “Internet of Things” and voice-activated technologies are also enabling new commerce endpoints and ways to access them that no longer even require that a consumer have a mobile device at the ready. . Data and location-based technologies can give contextual commerce a boost.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

technology, that was something to ride for a while. and what cross currency basis, et cetera, takes a while to assimilate at all. The layoffs are happening in finance technology, the higher income jobs. I mean, we have such a technology innovation, adaptive human. The dollar is the reserve currency in the world.

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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 the purpose of it is really to help to advance technology and innovation, particularly around ESG in the real estate industry, not just for our portfolio, but for the industry more broadly. I have no family history.

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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 to me, what was interesting about crypto at that point was, I mean the technology’s interesting.

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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

RITHOLTZ: Modern technology. SCHWARTZ: And whose currency is up on the year? The pandemic probably accelerated because people said, “Okay, it’s technology,” you know, and then they fell in love even when — now, there was the Pelotons and the DocuSigns. Technology is going to be the wave of the future.”

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