PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2017

From ordering groceries online to going to a retail store and comparing prices on a mobile app, or even shopping with the help of virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) — omnichannel interaction between consumers and merchants is now the new standard. Small businesses don’t typically have the resources as larger ones,” he said.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. I, I found this to be really an intriguing conversation with somebody who, whose investment charge is unconstrained.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The key is to encourage accounting graduates to learn how to leverage upon new and emerging technologies, work with structured and unstructured data, conduct data storytelling effectively and most importantly, adapt in a fast moving business environment with changing business models and evolving business needs.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

And instead of investing in tickets to go to a game, they’re investing in smart flat-screen TVs to watch live sporting events at home with friends. Amazon is leveraging Western Union’s global cash in/cash out network to let consumers shop online and pay in cash at one of their 500,000 global agent locations.

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Banking Accounting Leverage Advertising 72

PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2020

And instead of investing in tickets to go to a game, they’re investing in smart flat-screen TVs to watch live sporting events at home with friends. Amazon is leveraging Western Union’s global cash in/cash out network to let consumers shop online and pay in cash at one of their 500,000 global agent locations.

Banking 69

Banking Accounting Leverage Advertising 69

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We discussed all these things as well as why there has never been a better time to be a retail investor than right now, right here in this era. He is the managing director of Vanguard’s Financial Advisor Services Division, where he began back in 2002. I found the conversation to be absolutely fascinating, and I think you will also.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Walmart Pay comes to market with a few built-in advantages: it leverages the Walmart.com app, which is used by 20M+ people roaming around their stores each month, it works on every sort of smartphone out there, and they control the POS in all of their stores, just like Starbucks does.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

And so, a lot of my research was related to trying to uncover what were the underlying risk factors. And the place where I was looking for this risk factors was in the real economy. So I was relating asset prices to GDP growth, to investment growth, to default rest, to factors like this. The market microstructure has changed.

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Investments Marketing Economics Risk Management 65

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast I have an extra special guest, Luis Berruga has a fascinating career as both a tech wizard and investment banker before becoming CEO of Global X ETFs. And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group.

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Finvisage

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

AJ : Gamestop is a ‘physical’ retailer in America. It was going to leverage on its legacy business and cut costs there. Secondly it was planning to invest in reinventing itself as a premier gaming hub within the thriving gaming industry which is valued at $150 bn. It had already put in place a reboot plan.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. She really has an incredible background in everything from capital markets to derivatives, to wealth management. BITTERLY MICHELL: Not in leveraged, no, not at all, give more …. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I found this to be just a masterclass in everything you need to know about distressed credit investing, private credit, the role of the economy, the fed interest rates, inflation, bottoms up, credit picking, and how to manage a firm and a fund in light of just massive dislocations in your space, as well as the overall economy.

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Investments Economics Banking Construction 52

CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The conversation delves into the evolving landscape of the telecom industry, the impact of technology on business models, and the necessity for CFOs to embrace change and innovation, particularly in leveraging AI for forecasting and strategic planning. And then also in the larger scales being wholesalers and retailers.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

I wanted to see the world, and whether it was investment banking, or basket weaving really had absolutely no bearing on my decision. RITHOLTZ: You describe what we now call junk bonds, we used to call high yield, what we now call distressed investing, we used to call vulture investing. But it was very tiny. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

PayPal announced Thursday (June 21) that, following on the heels of its acquisition of Hyperwallet earlier this week, it is acquiring Simility , which is a fraud prevention and risk management platform. Marketplace sales accounted for 50 percent of all online sales in 2017, according to an estimate provided by PayPal.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 18, 2023

When he began, PE was a little bit of a niche boutique sort of investment, and over the ensuing 25 years, it has grown to be really a major asset class with giant opportunities that have been expressed by then small, now very large companies, of which Blackstone is one of the largest. The first job for Morgan Stanley was McCown De Leeuw.

Investments 61

Investments Valuation Marketing Currencies 61

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. I mean, it’s an age old thing in investing and trading.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

With no further ado, my conversation with Ken Kencel of Churchill Asset Management. They really weren’t in the investment banking business, and they looked at the opportunity there and said, gee, we should really have a high yield business and a financing business. We love your investment strategy. It seems unusual.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Finance Investments Banking 57

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Was impeccable, right?

Profit and Loss 57

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? It had gone from a fairly, fairly heavy retail business to a very institutional business.

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