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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

billion valuation by the end of the decade, with small medium-sized businesses (SMBs) a rising customer demographic. We are seeing more and more take-up, particularly in industries where we see a data breach risk, such as retailers, healthcare, anyone dealing with data analytics and companies that work with big, global firms,” Stephens said.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In a white-hot market, valuation multiples hit an all-time high of 15.4 Tech assets, in particular, decoupled from the broader M&A market, with multiples at 25 times, according to Bain, adding that the healthcare industry saw its asset prices soar, with median multiples at 20 times. times enterprise value/EBITDA, the firm noted.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

That does not mean older verification methods are obsolete, however: Many companies still rely on knowledge-based authentication (KBA) methods like passwords or security questions, even in areas like business lending — where stringent verification is crucial. Another form of identity security is biometrics.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The domicile of a bank explains nearly 70% of underlying valuations. Take the case of broker dealers in the securities industry, where margins and volumes have been down sharply in this cycle,” said McKinsey. “A In addition, scale in banking, as in most industries, is generally correlated with stronger returns, the company pointed out.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

The big news in B2B FinTech investment this week came from Airbnb , which is bolstering its presence in the business travel market with new funding, while corporate card startup Brex also secured a prominent debt capital investment. The company plans to use the investment to collaborate with MUFG and Sozo, and promote growth.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

initial public offerings, with hot firms like Airbnb and DoorDash going public at valuations that collectively topped $120 billion. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that it failed for several years to disclose so-called “payments for order flow.” However, Bloomberg last estimated Oscar’s valuation at $3.2

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

It’s a principle that Rosen said has become even more important, as payments have moved well past retail and toward enabling a better, more secure online user experience. Chief among those verticals will be healthcare, with particular attention paid to integrated and embedded payments functionality on offer from software providers.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

Uber’s valuation is pegged at $100 billion. Lyft’s valuation is less than 20 percent of that. In 2018, Uber added another side to its platform that catered to healthcare providers, which had struggled with their own logistical problems in getting patients to appointments. Uber considers its competitors to be Amazon and Alphabet.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Michael Fisch, American Securities , is below. Michael Fish is co-founder and CEO of American Securities. I found this conversation to really be intriguing and I think you will also, with, with no further ado, my discussion with American Security, CEO, Michael Fish.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

In the first quarter of this year, KPMG said in a recent report that there were five $1 billion-plus mega-venture capital rounds, and analysts say venture capitalists (VCs) are diversifying their investment targets as emerging focuses, from artificial intelligence (AI) to healthcare, build excitement.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Healthcare. It’s counterintuitive, but when valuations are high, it is the worst time to retire,’ said Morningstar personal finance director Christine Benz.” • What an insane system. What, we’re not worried about the organs of state security enforcing “the rules-based domestic order”? Rapture Index: Closes down one on Israel.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

billion valuation , and investments from Alibaba, as it attempts to build the all-in-one content-and-shopping platform for parents. Bishopp explained, “They don’t want to do payments because it seems like all of it [is] so difficult — onboarding, installing checks and balances, all of the transactions security risks themselves.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

Companies as large as Visa, Discover, FIS, Fiserv, Vantiv and Western Union, and diverse and scrappy as DaVincian Healthcare , EXA, OnVocal/People Power, BIG, and Zipscene/Feasty got their voice-enabled commerce mojo going and reimagined the financial services world in a variety of new ways.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

00:19:38 [Speaker Changed] And one of the areas where the banks were very active with those reserves was buying AA securities and the widest spread AAA securities were CLOs. But the biggest part of that capital structure, about 60% of it are the AAA securities.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And now we have a number of different hedge funds, some we have in the macro, we have multi-Strat, we have point hedge funds with in technology in the healthcare field. Securities 00:06:35 [Speaker Changed] And old school. Post money valuations until the market has changed dramatically. 00:06:35 [Speaker Changed] Correct.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. RITHOLTZ: He was the first (inaudible) in round B at the higher valuation. Is it about the valuation? Back then I was Wallstrip was like a 400K valuation. RITHOLTZ: Valuation didn’t make much of a difference.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

And one of the worst performing factors has been valuation. So we’re now in an environment where all the 45-year-old portfolio managers out there have been, have worked their entire careers in these momentum fueled markets, and they’ve been trained to believe that valuation doesn’t matter. That’s right.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

But thankfully, the next decade, things really accelerated in terms of the growth of the company and growth in the valuation, things like that. Take healthcare, the healthcare really is going to require systems level change to really revolutionize how we think about our health. And increasingly, healthcare is using telemedicine.

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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?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: No, you’re right about the securities. SEIDES: It wasn’t a question of security prices going down, it’s a question of like, can you transact? It’s much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction. What’s the valuation? So the credit markets froze.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And we were very lucky because we were able to secure this ticker, RATE, which is definitely a very young product. And we’re having very good conversations with clients that I think, at current valuation levels, they remain, you know, very interested in the market and they see some opportunities.

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