Bramasol

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In previous blog posts, we have addressed the challenges and opportunities regarding digital transformation and the Digital Solutions Economy (DSE) across a range of industries including, software & SaaS , semiconductors , media & entertainment , medical devices , transportation , electronics manufacturing , energy , and utilities.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 27, 2025

And they were really down there running a leveraged loan in a high yield business again, which was fit really nicely with what I was doing. So I wanna talk a little bit about leadership, especially leadership at a, a large investment firm. Tell us a little bit Mike Freno : About that. They’re giant.

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Bramasol

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Also, the ability to leverage comprehensive agnostic analytics tools such as SAP Analytics Cloud will be key to enabling agile decision-making that takes into account timely data from all parts of the end-to-end process.

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Jedox Finance

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

But you do need to be conscious about how to leverage your strengths and not get beaten by your weaknesses. Structure beats an entertaining presenter any day! It starts with you changing and this will take you outside the comfort zone. Does it mean that only extroverted people can be good finance business partners? Not at all.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Mature buyers are becoming more open to leveraging third-party support across more complex, judgment-intensive processes [such as financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and tax] as well as industry-specific processes (such as premium collections and claims accounting in the insurance sector). Trends driving FAO.

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Future CFO

MARCH 15, 2020

powering innovation by leveraging data and being agile. Among all the large companies surveyed, those in the consumer products and retail (52%); industrial (50%); and technology, media and entertainment and telecoms (49%) industries are making progress in their transformation initiatives, followed by energy (45%) and financial services (44%).

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CFO Thought Leader

JUNE 6, 2023

jb Public.com | www.public.com | New York, NY The post 905: The Future CFO Among Us | Sruthi Lanka, CFO, Public.com appeared first on CFO THOUGHT LEADER, CFO, Finance, Leadership, CPA. Lanka tells us that it was then when she realized that she wanted to build a company rather than just advise others about theirs.

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VCFO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

personal vehicles, entertainment, vacations labeled as business travel) that owners sometime charge to their companies. When business owners understand these factors, they can leverage them to make informed decisions that not only enhance business value but also result in a satisfying and optimized financial exit.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

JEFFREY RAYPORT: Well, maybe the best way to bring it to life is to talk about one of the companies that we’ve spent a lot of time with, and that’s King Digital Entertainment. Can you just explain what extrapolation is? It’s a London-based game maker. Many people will know it. It’s been recently acquired by Activision Blizzard.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 4, 2025

And I also wanted to make sure that I was going somewhere that would really leverage the quantitative skills that I was acquiring at Chicago. 00:32:47 [Speaker Changed] Let’s talk a little bit about some of your thoughts on, on leadership at the bank and, and long-term strategy. Speaking of, of entertainment.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 29, 2025

And so I was, I was, you know, working for the head of ING investment management, but when ING decided to take this loan, there was a change in leadership. That team leverages a lot of the same research of our growth analysts. Starting with what’s keeping you entertained these days? 00:48:04 [Speaker Changed] Absolutely.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

And so I kind of leveraged that when I went to Morningstar because they’re very focused on quality, the whole concept of economic moats, but also about buying companies when they’re trading at a discount to intrinsic value. Starting with what’s been keeping you entertained these days?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

I hope it’s going to be shallow for the reasons we discussed that we are not getting into this environment with high leverage and high, you know — RITHOLTZ: Low unemployment — VASSALOU: Yes. You need the lower leverage than you used to need before. VASSALOU: I don’t know if it’s going to be short.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But there wasn’t an active m and a business, there wasn’t a leveraged finance business. But there came to be, in certain situations, buyers that were bootstrap, buyers that were, we would call ’em today, they then leveraged buyout financiers. And, and we wanted to have relatively modest leverage.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

One is our leadership in thematic investing. So if it’s, for example, a strategy tracking a Nasdaq Index, or an S&P, or a MSCI, typically, you leverage an index that is already available through the index providers. I mean, I do think there is a market for leverage and inverse ETFs out there.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Often working with his longtime Imagine Entertainment partner, Brian Grazer and the industry’s top talent as well as its up and comers, Howard has produced more than 120 films and shows, and he’s directed or acted in more than 130, all while maintaining reputation for being one of the nicest guys in Hollywood.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And you know, because they had leveraged in some cases bond portfolios when rates go up as you know, prices go down, they had margin calls ’cause they were trading on margin in a 00:41:52 [Speaker Changed] Lot of cases. What kept you entertained during the pandemic? It’s just, it’s a great story in leadership.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 13, 2025

Tell us a little bit about your progression over 27 years through the leadership ranks at Vanguard. And there was a, a calmness coming from Bill as the CEO, but also the rest of the leadership team and providing assurance to our crew. And you’re right, it’s the Women’s Initiative for Leadership Success.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But, but I think if I was to go back through my career, that moment in time, you know, when there is this big wave coming, because it was the start of the high yield market, the leverage loan market grew dramatically, you know, from 200 billion in the mid nineties to $5 trillion today, high yield and leverage loans. And still growing.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

So I had some experience in Africa that was able to leverage for this role. And again, I’m talking about from the, you know, from the leadership on, you know, on throughout the organization because ultimately we are the fourth strategy. Starting with what’s keeping you entertained these days?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Although Twitter pulled off a similar miracle, call us skeptical as — despite the memo — we don’t have faith in Snap ‘s leadership to navigate these rapids,” Nathanson added. But at this point, he is skeptical that Snap can manage a hat trick. The Troubles Snap’s Seen. Yes, we’re discontinuing the Snapcash feature as of Aug.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

And you know, it’s funny, when I was on the road in the early days, you know, talk about even post GFC, you’d meet with large scale institutions and you talk about senior secured loans, private lending, covenants, reasonable leverage, et cetera, et cetera. KENCEL: So, now, leverage is lower. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Number one, and I think they both reflect strong leadership at the firms. Number one, you had, you know, somewhat of a groundswell from within the firm, certainly at leadership that said we need to figure out a way to do something. RITHOLTZ: So is that what led to Management Leadership for Tomorrow, and then AltFinance?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 23, 2023

This is a fascinating conversation about business growth and leadership and management and how to run a team. Maybe it’s leverage, maybe it’s a tele protection, maybe it’s an overlay hedge, maybe it’s any number of these things. BREAK) RITHOLTZ: So — so let’s talk a little bit about your approach to leadership.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And I literally just started putting adjectives and nouns on piece of paper, trying to figure out like how do I describe the work that I think I should be doing, and that hopefully, people find at least entertaining, if not valuable? RITHOLTZ: So you would like to see leadership from the U.S. I think they’re entertaining.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Jessica Holscott | Authentic Brands , Jessica Holscott has been appointed as the new CFO of Authentic Brands, a brand development, marketing, and entertainment platform. He has also held financial leadership roles at Nuance Communications, Wyless, and Mimecast. Holscott previously served as CFO at Warner Media.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

But I would say generally, there’s less leverage in the system. What’s been keeping you entertained? One, when people have asked me to compare and contrast today versus 2007, 2008, what you hear from a lot of people is, yes, there’s some fairly heady valuations.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The, the security that 00:19:47 [Speaker Changed] Is 5% is high yield these days 00:19:49 [Speaker Changed] You had the, the Fed come in and, and push a lot of the banks and say, Hey, you, you can’t have a tunnel of leverage on the high yield issuance. But I, I think this extreme leverage is not as prevalent as it once was.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And I think a lot of investors and, and lenders and really lost their way and agreed to terms and conditions that in under today’s market environment would not be acceptable levels of leverage that would not work. I’m not, I’m not really into fiction or, or entertaining reading. That’s an example.

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Bramasol

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The importance of these elements has been underscored consistently in our work on implementing DSE solutions across many different industries including media & entertainment , telecom , software & SaaS , semiconductors , transportation , medical devices , electronics manufacturing , oil & gas , and utilities.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

MILLER: So the other side is my focus is to force the foundation or remove the leadership of the foundation so that the regulatory world, or sort of the government side of the story, that there’s a representative membership, not zero, of people of color, right? What’s keeping you entertained? Of course there is, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 6, 2025

And I understood from that that well-meaning people can still muck things up because they don’t have an appropriate guide frame or appropriate leadership, or they’re not, so like little things can take projects astray. So it’s 10 to one, 20 to one, whatever the precisely the leverage they’re using.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

We wanna be sure that our communications tools leverage large language models so they can be highly personalized. In addition to cybersecurity, there’s also the third party rule, which is, which is RIAs and investment advisors that leverage third party providers to provide services to their clients.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. You know, the leverage in the system builds. You serve as the National Leadership Council of Communities in Schools, and the Educational Foundation in New York. RIEDER: So I mean, I’m less involved than I was on the national leadership.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The BDO team was the first company I have formally trained in Artificial Intelligence and working with a few more firms now by leveraging technology to increase productivity and boost their digital skills. Share your favorite leadership lesson. On my first international trip to Slovakia, I learned the term ‘Hero Leadership.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2025

I like to think that, you know, in core wealth management, Morgan Stanley, and, and you know, where we’ve come, you know, first under James Gorman and now hopefully under, under Ted Pick’s leadership is really, you know, differentiating us and allowing us to pull away from the pack, at least in wealth management.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 7, 2025

Leverage buyouts requires leverage. And when rates were so low, the leverage went, it was cheap and, and and easily accessible. And for that I’ll always be thankful to the leadership of the firm because they saw the opportunity and they made that happen. Tell us what’s keeping you entertained these days?

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