PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In this case, the “cake” is the improved performance and economics that many banks experience when they update systems that in some cases have been in place since the 1950s. “On On average, our customers will see a 20 percent lift in approvals and a 30 percent reduction in charge-offs just by deploying better math,” de Vere said.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Most economic downturns hit lower-income Americans hardest, but this time is different. Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame.

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Math Advertising Investments Economics 116

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 1, 2023

But most of all, it was just simple maths according to Druck. The easy part is over. Barron’s ) • The Bear Market’s Survivors Share Their Biggest Lessons : With the S&P 500 in the longest bear market since 1973, individual investors maneuver differently from just months ago. The first was don’t lose money. I don’t like to lose.”

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

However, my commerce teacher noticed my aptitude for math and saw potential in me for a different path. This early encouragement played a key role in shaping my future, as it introduced me to the world of business and numbers. My interest in finance began unexpectedly in high school.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

A study by the University of Baltimore and Excel-based FP&A company, , DataRails , lays out the full economic costs of businesses sticking with manually prepared financial reports. Breaking down the Math. This number represents how much of an economic uplift could occur “if FP&A departments hit a conservative 0.1%

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The math implies that 87 million users were inactive. BGR India reported that the app was in the testing phase and had onboarded a number of banks – Axis, ICICI, HDFC, Standard Chartered and others among them.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

It’s All Math, All The Way Down. Numbered patterns in the pixels are what the computer is programmed to spot, and it makes “decisions” about what those patterns represent, based on complex statistical analysis using every other data set it’s ever encountered as its comparison points. Data is not centered.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This sentiment is echoed by AI Now, a research institute, which asserts that “AI is now firmly positioned as a critical strategic technology for the geopolitical and economic ambitions of nation-states.” AI’s positive impact will be concentrated, initially, “in a limited number of sectors.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We may be catching a glimpse of economic life beyond the pandemic. Added Michael Miebach , Mastercard CEO, current trends echo the past: “What we've seen in previous challenged periods in terms of economic outlook. There's a number of different models … We're not in the business of picking winners and losers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The digital numbers for Lego.com doubled to more than 100 million in the first half of 2020. It launched a brand new unit, called Training Trackers, to teach core science and math concepts with its middle school solution, LEGO® Education SPIKE ? Christiansen. “We

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In an interview with Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Nomi Prins takes up and extends the argument that she has made over a series of books, that central bankers are ever-more administering policies that are good for the markets but very bad for the real economy and real people. economy and Wall Street.

Banking 100

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. The leading economic indicators show the U.S. So doesn’t it make sense to cut risk and stick to the safety of cash?

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Hopefully, we’ll fall far short of that number. . Doing some simple math (25% x 12 months = 3 months), we can safely say that you should start with a goal of at least 3 months of expenses as your operating reserve. What’s the economic health of your community? . Or, do you rely on grants, events, and campaigns? .

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CFO Thought Leader

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

In the mid-2000s, the world’s attention increasingly began to focus on Asia, attracted not just by the region’s rapid economic growth but also by the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Expand Title My number two focus will be on the new business models that we’re going into. This is my first priority.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

The Math Behind DoorDash’s Subscription Service. Building an economically viable subscription service presented a number of hurdles, however, and Ruth said it was tricky to make DashPass sustainable yet profitable. “We We wanted to make sure the economics did work, that we were profitable on every single delivery.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Kris Giswold (KG): My journey in finance began with my love of puzzles and numbers. I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. Numbers could tell a story, they could explain behaviours and predict the future.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 7, 2025

I couldnt figure out where it came from; so I worked out the canonical math. And I, well, it was that, and it was about him and a number of other people. It didn’t matter how I did it, whether I balanced monthly or quarterly or annually, or I use thresholds. And if you understand asset allocation, you understand finance.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

So good in fact, Fortune reported, that the company announced plans to double the size of its local AI research group, increasing the number of team members from 40 to 80. The result is a city that is producing large numbers of graduates with broad expertise in tech-related fields.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

They are the very businesses that make America’s cities, towns and urban centers lively and vibrant and interesting — and make our communities culturally, socially and economically strong. Those numbers are so stark that they are worth repeating. Doing The Math. Most of the SMBs we asked aren’t new to the world.

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 17, 2022

You can grasp nonprofit accounting basics in just a few minutes, even if you’ve never taken an accounting course (and even if you hated math in high school). Revenue is inflows that increase economic wealth. Expenses are outflows of cash that decrease economic wealth. Donations of goods (food, clothing, supplies).

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 20, 2024

As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. And everyone answers for, except for the person they hire, whose answer was, what number did you have in mind? the number of periods over one, three, five, and 10 years where it beats its benchmark is extremely high.

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VCFO

DECEMBER 10, 2021

You can do your own math on what this will mean to you. There is significant debate on the causes with two [mainstream] competing theories – Keynesian and Monetarist Economics. That is a huge number but still does not capture the total U.S. Pensions and financial institution debt quickly expands the number.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Evans, chief economist and founder at Global Economics Group, and a quartet of CEOs sat down to discuss how commerce has been wending its way speedily across borders. Numbers for Fun, Profit and Failure. And if payments remain a collective effort, connectivity is the glue that cements that collective effort.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” I think your number at the time was somewhere like 15 great fit clients to take on every year. And it was just an unmanageably large number of clients. He did an immense number of sales, and had cultivated a huge number of relationships. But he was wonderfully successful in the insurance environment.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

JG: Paintzen is very math-based — and so we collect a number of variables and put them into our system to produce a match. KW: Do you put a cap on the number of painters allowed into the system? Our numbers every year have stayed at that 50/50 level. KW: How do the economics around your platform work?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

But no sooner did I start helping people in this layoff situation, I realized, number one, you gotta have empathy. I’ve been to well over 600, almost 700…I’m loose with my numbers here, but over 700 companies in the last 20 years, if not more. You’ve gotta have a deep empathy. Michael: Yeah. John: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. It was at Bank One, at the time. BITTERLY MICHELL: … was — no, no.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And not because it’s not necessarily profitable to give advice for clients at those price points, but that in order to do it and make the math work, you need a lot of clients. And so, they’re always getting the economic updates, or the things that we’re thinking throughout the year. Mindy: Yeah, yeah. Mindy: Yeah.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Because I know a number of firms that do have some amount of 401(k) business do have a wealth offering and have struggled to figure out how to systematically or efficiently get clients to switch over, or move over, or cross over when it’s appropriate for them to do so. .” Michael: Interesting.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. New York is number one. Two reasons.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

While Amazon is fairly tight-lipped about specific numbers, eMarketer has cut its estimate of Amazon’s current online commerce market share in the U.S. It is a complicated question — and one greatly dependent on how exactly one lays out the math. Starting with… Amazon. market share.

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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

Profit and Loss 43

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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.

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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 new economics of multisided platforms provides tremendous insights into the fizzles waiting to happen. What is it you ask?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. It’s 10 blue links, but it’s an infinite number of blue links. So remember data and data infrastructure, that is the number one primitive to ai. So here’s the math, Barry.

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Investments Marketing Startups Accounting 98

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Heather comes from with a fascinating background, having previously been in a number of other places, most notably Morningstar, and, and she has a very specific approach to investment management and thinking about stock selection. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t.

Investments 59

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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. Ken Rogoff is an esteemed professor of economics at Harvard University. The storyline, of course, seems a bit at odds with the title of the show (which not surprisingly lasted only one season) but it stayed with me.

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