PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

This, Ciabarra notes, is a notable difference in bottom line for small and medium sized businesses on tight margins – that requires essentially no investment or upgrade – or marketing costs – just willingness to participate in a virtual world that someone else maintains.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

His philanthropy includes sitting on the board of directors of Paul Tudor Jones’ Robin Hood Foundation and Jim Simon’s Math for America. He is fond of noting: “Markets spend a lot of time doing nothing, then they reprice.” He explains what the trading experience was like on Black Monday, 1987.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 11, 2023

Bloomberg ) • From Pepperoni Math to Nepo Babies, Summer Is for Interns : Your first experience at work is not often forgotten. The rental market slowdown in finally reflected in inflation numbers Source: Apartment List Sign up for our reads-only mailing list here. Buffett won).

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CFO Simplified

JUNE 19, 2022

As a business owner, you need to understand what your total cost of marketing and sales is. This might include the amount you’re spending on: Digital marketing. Marketing salaries and bonuses (which depend on whether you’re marketing is outsourced or in-house). Let’s look at customer acquisition first.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 1, 2023

Barron’s ) • The Bear Market’s Survivors Share Their Biggest Lessons : With the S&P 500 in the longest bear market since 1973, individual investors maneuver differently from just months ago. But most of all, it was just simple maths according to Druck. The easy part is over. The first was don’t lose money.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 23, 2024

link] • Why Zillow is worried about America’s housing market shakeup. link] • Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon : Want to really understand how large language models work? Hope came cheap enough, but I was also realistic. Here’s a gentle primer. link] SEE ALSO Watch an A.I.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

This framework is designed to address how the technology could be used across multiple business functions to increase efficiencies across markets, including how blockchain can transform the way information and services are shared. Japan Cracks Down On Bitcoin Exchanges.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 17, 2023

Fundamentals: ( Of Dollars And Data ) see also The Long-Term Wins : These periods do seem arbitrary but the changing of the calendar from one year to the next offers a good chance for market nerds like myself to update some long-term market data. ( A Wealth of Common Sense ). It was an era of illusory and ridiculous promises. (

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 20, 2023

At least, if you are a smart investor who does the right things: Set up a financial plan, manage your own behavior, engage in long-term thinking, and avoid reacting to the endless daily noise that markets + media generate. Giving up permanent gains to avoid impermanent drops seems like an awful exchange.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. You also need a deep understanding of financial market history from booms to busts. You need to understand how corporations and the global economy generally function over the long haul.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

And recent declines in TIPS’ auction prices, along with other market signals, suggest some investors believe inflation may cool off, which could also hurt their returns. Investors can mitigate this interest-rate risk by buying TIPS themselves—either directly from the Treasury or in the market—and holding them to maturity.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Consumer sales grew 14 percent compared with the first half of 2019 and the brand’s global market share increased. Toy industry sales increased by 9 percent in the first half of 2020 across the 12 global markets tracked by The NPD Group. Global revenue for the first half of the year grew 7 percent to $15.7 Operating profit was $3.9

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Businessweek ) • The Super Bowl’s Most Reliable Stock Market Indicator? Businessweek ) • The Super Bowl’s Most Reliable Stock Market Indicator? Business Insider ) • Stop treating unemployment as a necessary evil to curb inflation : An economist explains why it’s time to rethink popular assumptions about layoffs. (

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 15, 2023

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.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 31, 2023

Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide At the heart of the country’s economic and social crisis is a broken housing market, which has amplified social divisions. The Guardian ) • What Broke Sweden?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

New Math: Walmart+ Doesn’t Equal Amazon Prime. Walmart+ enrollment is underway, and market watchers are avidly wondering how many consumers will sign on for Walmart’s $98 a year subscription, which includes are free grocery deliveries (and other products) above $35, and scan-and-go (contactless) payments within the app.

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Generation CFO

JANUARY 28, 2022

However, when he didn’t secure a senior contract at Bradford City, he left that path behind and went on to study maths at University. This transparency also helps build consensus-based scenario planning, where decisions can be explored and talked about before they’re enacted.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

We’re targeting Anglophone West Africa … for a market of effectively 300 million people,” Shagaya told TechCrunch. The curriculum will include practice tests and tailored content focused on math, physics, chemistry and biology. The company is headquartered in Lagos with a production studio in Jos.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market? Can a New One Succeed?

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 21, 2024

Let’s take the concept of marketing channels for example. Channel B is a new event across town, which could attract a new market. He asks a very important question for non-profits: Which one of our marketing channels, development channels, is actually producing high quality, new donors that are giving more money over the long run?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, various market indicators, including house prices and rents, suggest that the housing market has slowed significantly with the rise in interest rates. Just because credit card debt can be ruinous for some households doesn’t mean it has to take down the U.S. economy. (

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The Charity CFO

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In essence, Travis tells us the law specifies that corporations ( specifically C-Corps) can not only donate their cost when they donate certain items of excess inventory, but they can utilize a rule that allows one half of their markup to the fair market value of the piece. So the second option, donation right?

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. This role allowed me to drive substantial business results and foster growth across 27 diverse markets, each having a unique set of challenges.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

On average, our customers will see a 20 percent lift in approvals and a 30 percent reduction in charge-offs just by deploying better math,” de Vere said. De Vere isn’t bashful when it comes to talking about Zest AI, its mission and product/market fit. “We 15M In New Funding . That's our future,” de Vere said.

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VCFO

AUGUST 11, 2022

oil and gas industry has remained resilient through continued market volatility and tough-to-predict booms and busts – even through the compounding wake of COVID and other recent market disruptions. Renewable energy by nature demands different talent pools with more advanced technical and math skills to help guide the initiatives.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

The round was led by Updata Partners, with participation from existing investors including MATH Venture Partners, which led Built In’s previous two funding rounds. When we first invested in Built In in 2015, they were a small team with a very big vision,” added Troy Henikoff, managing director of MATH Venture Partners. “It

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BlueLight

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In this blog, I’m going to apply that math to a growing startup. Qualitatively, we know that net revenue retention rate is the strongest indicator of product market fit. There are plenty of blogs that explain what net retention analysis is and the formula to calculate it. This is a good one. Let’s get started.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

s proposals on how to govern London’s access to the European market after Brexit, saying that British Prime Minister Theresa May’s latest plan would take away the EU’s “decision-making autonomy.” Everybody can do the maths. Last month it was reported that the U.K. In July, Brussels rejected the U.K.’s

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

While rivals Papa John’s and Pizza Hut have said deliveries through Grubhub and DoorDash have helped them expand into new markets and boost sales, Domino’s Chief Executive Ritch Allison told The Wall Street Journal that the profit hit and reputational risk of working with those companies isn’t worth the extra revenue.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 28, 2023

When I was studying towards my qualifications for university, I had to choose subjects which were in line with medicine, which was maths, biology and chemistry, but somewhere along the line I ended up doing accountancy and I then finished college in 1994.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

He previously served as head of markets, chief operating officer and deputy head of wholesale banking. Svenska Handelsbanken AB Analyst Maths Liljedahl said Vang-Jensen “is a man of action.”. “He Rees has served as CFO since last year and came to Nordea in 2015. The bank has reportedly started looking for a successor.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2016

The latest growth initiatives have centered on the Tapp Market mobile app, and in pushing into Indonesia and the Philippines, the app has witnessed what management said amounted to “exponential” growth. Through the Market platform, sales agents, who are billed as micro-entreprenuers, help with prepaid electric bills, for example.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

So you can do the math. India is one of the most attractive retail markets in the world, given its size and growth rate, and our investment is an opportunity to partner with the company that is leading the transformation of eCommerce in the market,” said Walmart CEO Doug McMillon in a statement at the time.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As reported in July, Visa Installments, a new point-of-sale (POS) credit solution, debuted in pilot markets across the U.S. Visa CEO Alfred Kelly said on the most recent earnings call that installments represent “a pretty interesting space, and I think we're in the early days in most markets.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

BlackBerry , a Canadian company that used to have a huge slice of the mobile phone market before the proliferation of the iPhone, pivoted to software that manages mobile devices. Cylance, based in California, was reportedly considering filing for an IPO before the news came to light.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The move comes as the eCommerce company reportedly wants to make the country into a major market. Baidu’s cloud solution will integrate Intel’s Xeon Scalable processors, as well as Intel’s Math Kernel Library for Deep Neural Network technologies, to develop financial technologies for banks in China.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Getting people to change their behavior is difficult,” said David Bell, a marketing professor at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. The math people do in a renting vs. buying situation, he noted, is hard to quantify, as is the degree to which people will feel uncomfortable wearing a pre-worn dress.

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