Investments Math Profit and Loss Retail 
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 14, 2016
Coupons were retail’s low-tech discounting solution in a world with Groupon, promo codes and Prime Day. In a retail reality where everything is always on sale, coupons were the clever method by which brick-and-mortar shops drew in customers with deals. This is the conventional wisdom.
PYMNTS
MAY 4, 2016
Changing market conditions (and some higher-than-expected default rates) have changed the math and softened investor interest some. billion in it last fundraising round last year, as of yet, the firm has not actually been profitable. And though Prosper was valued at $1.9 billion to $6.1 that online lenders don’t have by design.
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Barry Ritholtz
JANUARY 24, 2023
They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. It was between corporate law and investment banking.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 5, 2016
So sizzles all the way around – unless, of course, you’re one of the ones asking banks to invest in a real-time payments capability that does exactly the same thing. It wasn’t because it has the secret to running a profitable eCommerce site or success in monetizing memberships a la its CEO’s alma mater, Amazon. Iris Scanning.
Barry Ritholtz
MAY 30, 2023
Because then I knew what the wholesale rate was and the retail rate. I went home, got my mother, I sold my mother on making a $40 investment. I made $300 a week on a $40 investment. Import, export, finance, marketing, wholesale, retail, customer service, security, territory, logistics. I knew what the markup was.
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. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. Her name is Kristen Bitterly Michell.
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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