Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 8, 2025

dollar bank account, but your currency has high inflation, you’re going to want access to stablecoins. Barry Ritholtz : So let’s talk a little bit about security. I recall 10 years ago, crazy numbers, something like a lot of hacks, a lot of thefts. Tell us a little bit about custody and security of crypto assets.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 10, 2025

Can you elaborate on how people misunderstand the very purpose of currency? Enormous round stones are their currency. Q :“ From commodity money like gold to fiat currency to digital transactions – how has the evolution of money’s form changed or reinforced our fundamental misconceptions about what it is?

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The Big Picture

JULY 1, 2025

Very unusual number of years in a row. I had no idea private equity was putting up those sort of numbers back then. So because we have a view on our liability profile, we need to make sure we match our assets on a currency duration and liquidity basis. European Central Bank has cut rates recently a number of times.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 10, 2025

But yeah, that was, that was an amazing time That then evolved into, hey, we’ve, we’ve got investors from Asia, from Europe, from South America, that are buying our ETFs listed on the New York Stock Exchange, because by the way, it’s a security. Some of that’s just driven by currency. But there is a convergence.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It’s now easy to get high quality access and secure access to crypto if you use the right tools. Today, he’s talking about it transforming the world of currency and he holds more Bitcoin than almost anyone else. Should we be thinking about Bitcoin like a commodity, like a currency? was hard to use. With crypto.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

Some of that change in volume may have been attributable to issuers taking an opportunistic approach at the beginning of the year, suggests Jeff Ramsay, securities and capital markets partner at Paul Hastings law firm, waiting to see how the change in [US] administration may affect the macroeconomic environment.

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

A Country Of Superlatives Joel Shen, a lawyer based in Jakarta and Singapore, who heads Withersworldwides technology practice in Asia, boasts that Indonesia is a country of superlatives and is an attractive investment destination with a number of very clear advantages. On the banking side, the sheer number of unbanked is huge.

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CFO Talks

JANUARY 27, 2025

Stakeholder Engagement: Effectively communicating ESG efforts to investors, regulators, and other stakeholders is crucial for building trust and securing support. Regulatory Compliance: Staying abreast of rapidly evolving ESG regulations demands continuous monitoring and adaptation. So that’s a little bit about my journey.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

BTG also ranked first in the region in terms of both number and volume of deals for M&A and investment banking revenue, maintaining its leading position in the regions highly competitive risk-investment segment. Goldman Sachs did its part and secured all the most important deals of the year globallyespecially in North America.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Banks are creating personalized solutions like customized currency hedges or swaps. These tailored strategies help businesses manage currency risks in ways that suit their specific needs, explains Swapnil Shinde, CEO and co-founder of Zeni, a corporate bookkeeping platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

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Musings on Markets

JUNE 17, 2025

The securitization process gained stream in the 1980s with the advent of mortgage-backed securities. The first and perhaps the longest standing collectible is gold , a draw for investors during inflationary period or when they lose faith in fiat currencies and governments. Where's the beef?

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

By providing immediate cash flow, SCF helps suppliers avoid the pitfalls of traditional loans that can be challenging to secure during economic downturns. Implementing DTSCF can be more complex than traditional SCF due to the increased number of parties involved and the need to track payments across multiple tiers.

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CFO Dive

JULY 1, 2025

I recently watched a Fortune 500 CFOs face change when I showed her Circles numbers: $1.7 Coinbase took home nearly $1 billion just for distributing the fast-rising digital currency. Treasuries offer institutional-grade security with superior returns. Views are the author’s own. Stablecoins backed by U.S.

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APRIL 8, 2025

Lisa Shallet, chief Investment Officer at Morgan Stanley has had a number of fascinating roles in Wall Street, which is kind of amusing considering she had no interest in working on Wall Street, and yet she was CEO and chairman at Sanford Bernstein. I was traveling and on an airplane all the time. So I took the plunge, I quit.

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The Big Picture

JULY 15, 2025

But the heart of the firm was still on the private client side for any number of strategic reasons. And later on, we had a number of the discount brokers had come out in places like Schwab and Muriel Seabert, but I always felt they had followed Meryl’s lead to Absolutely. And the number came out and it was a blowout good number.

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Global Finance

JUNE 10, 2025

The US dollar has weakened, its role as a reserve currency is being reevaluated, and foreign investors are quietly retreating from US assets. Foreign governments bought trillions in US Treasury bonds, cementing the dollar’s dominance as a global reserve currency. At its lowest point in early May, the US dollar index had fallen 8.9%

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CFO Talks

MAY 22, 2025

It means having your eye on the numbers and your finger on the pulse. Balance data security and accessibility , especially with POPIA and cyber threats climbing. And in this economy, readiness is the most valuable currency a CFO can bring to the table. Forget long-winded leadership theory or fluffy change management slogans.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

So during my time there, I was probably employee number four or five. In fact, I think the number is net of fees 10 years out, it’s like 93% underperform the benchmark in in us. So we were strategy number four at aerial. What’s that like? 00:11:26 [Speaker Changed] Yeah, absolutely. Not even big cap, just us period.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 17, 2025

So number one on the New York Times list? 00:22:23 [Speaker Changed] Not number one, but it was in the top f whatever it made the list. Time, it, it seemed like a big number at the time, 787 billion. I’m buying mortgage backed securities and treasuries and I’m hoping it does something. And collects 5.2

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The Big Picture

JUNE 16, 2025

There are a number of people who have said, and I’ve been swayed in this direction, Hey, when you’re 20, 25 years old and you don’t need this money for 30, 40, 50 years, do you really need bonds to offset the volatility of equities? Some crazy number writing a monthly column for them. You can’t execute.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 18, 2025

The second is bitcoin , which can be viewed as either a currency or a collectible, and in a series of posts, I argued that bitcoin can only be priced, not valued, making debates about whether to buy or not to buy entirely a function of perception. Leading into July 2025, for instance, global non-financial-service firms held almost $11.4

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Global Finance

JUNE 16, 2025

Those numbers reflect in part the increasingly tense relations between mainland China, the regional behemoth, and the US, but also Malaysia’s common-law heritage, educated, English-speaking workforce, and significantly lower costs compared with its smaller neighbor, Singapore. GDP growth (2025): 5% (est.) Inflation (2025) : 2%-3.5% (est.)

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 27, 2025

So, so those numbers are astonishing. They’d suggested we were shoplifting, we weren’t, but it was just a heavy security presence. And there was a number that were actually in that business. You know, and, and, and so we expanded into a number of different other businesses. Welcome to Bloomberg.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2020

patent on a computer system that would convert physical dollars and other fiat currencies into digital versions, complete with denominations and serial numbers and recorded via blockchain. The system would then remove the paper currency from circulation. A central entity may implement a monetary policy and issue currency.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

The tipping point might be nigh for digital dollars and other central bank-issued currencies done through bits and bytes. Patent and Trademark Office that would create a digital currency underpinned by blockchain technology. A central entity may implement a monetary policy and issue currency.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

A major German digital security firm that is a significant player in the electronic payments sector on Tuesday (Sept. 15) has backed a call by the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) for quick exploration into creating an official European Union digital currency. In the digital world, speed is the most important factor.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

In many ways, the rise of crypto and digital currencies like Bitcoin aims to address some of these issues, empowering payers and payees with a way of bypassing the “middleman” of the inter-banking system for faster transaction speeds. .” Choice, he said, is key to guiding corporates toward a digital currency ecosystem.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2020

China’s Ministry of Commerce is moving forward with its plan for a digital currency, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The bill originally set out to distinguish digital assets from securities.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

However, all the messaging companies will likely face the same regulatory and technology issues that bitcoin has faced due to a lack of central authority over cryptos, as well as the designs of the computer networks that make it difficult to complete a significant number of transactions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

You don’t have to look far to see security flaws leading to massive data breaches. Security experts believe that may be what happened to Yahoo — the tech giant confirmed that over 500 million user accounts were compromised by hackers, marking what is said to be the largest data breach in U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

SWIFT’s [Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication] new service offers the possibility of borderless low-cost account-to-account currency transfers from the bank’s own app or portal, and Oracle Banking Payments’ readiness makes this transition easy and fast for SMEs.”. The subsidiary of Oracle Corp.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), said it has completed the “top-level” design of its proposed digital currency, according to reports. Mu Changchun, the head of the digital currency research institute at the PBOC, said the focus will be on “stability, security and control.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

The social media giant is now compelled to address a growing number of fabricated exchanges associated with its digital asset, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday (July 23). It also introduces a new programming language, Move, designed to make it more efficient and secure.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A group of senators have introduced a bill that would classify Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra as a security under the law, according to a report by CNBC. The bill is called the “Managed Stablecoins are Securities Act of 2019” and was proposed by two members of the House Financial Services Committee, Reps.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) disclosed it was hacked in September, reported The Wall Street Journal last week. 2015 when the ex-employee downloaded a large number of files onto two thumb drives. 2015 when the ex-employee downloaded a large number of files onto two thumb drives.

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MAY 19, 2020

BlockFi said it was “able to confirm that no funds, passwords, social security numbers, tax identification numbers, passports, licenses, bank account information, nor similar non-public identification information was exposed as a result of this incident.”. dollars and Ukrainian hryvnias.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Cequence Security. Also operating in the enterprise security space is Cequence Security, based in California. Contrast Security.

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