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10 Monday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Ken Griffin’s Hand-Picked Math Prodigy Runs Market-Making Empire : Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao left for college at age 14, caught Griffin’s eye early in his career and built systems now mopping up market share. Social Leverage recently launched its 4th fund.

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Keeping Subscription Boxes Secure From STEM To Stern

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Box-of-the-month services constantly struggle to secure their payment processes and remain a step ahead of bad actors. KiwiCo , a monthly science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subscription box for children, is improving its security practices by partnering with third-party providers.

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Leveraging Structured Notes To Differentiate A Solo Practice

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What’s unique about Anh, though, is how, as a solo advisor, she differentiates her firm by leveraging the combination of a high-touch concierge approach to client service with a unique investment management approach through the use of very carefully chosen structured notes to differentiate her portfolio design from other advisors.

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Mastercard Names Raj Seshadri President Of Data And Services

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That’s both a tremendous opportunity — in terms of providing stronger security, better customer experiences, more customized commerce journeys and, on the whole, better outcomes for both merchants and customers. Data correctly leveraged provides the insights that make it possible to provide those more tailored experiences.

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What Walmart’s Resurgence Means For Retail And The “Pays”

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He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that uses complicated math formulas to communicate. Amazon not only coined the term one-click checkout , but filed a patent for it in 1997 and secured it in 1999. His economic principles were what inspired President Lyndon B.

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Crowdsourcing Data’s Double Edge

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-based wireless carriers said they would stop sharing such location-based consumer data to some controversial data aggregators , a move that is part of the increasing attention that consumers, and their lawmakers, are paying to privacy and security in this digital age. Different Methods. It helps me keep my engineers honest,” he joked.

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Do the Masses Know Best? When it Comes to Lucrative Data, Maybe So.

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-based wireless carriers said this would stop sharing such location-based consumer data to some controversial data aggregators , a move that is part of the increasing attention that consumers, and their lawmakers, are paying to privacy and security in this digital age. Different Methods. It helps me keep my engineers honest,” he joked.