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JULY 16, 2020

Nathoo and other Outschool executives have extensive technology backgrounds, bringing a decidedly tech-oriented approach to online education, with an emphasis on secure and communication-rich video interfaces and outside-the-box course offerings. We’re exploring bundles by topic, so math for age 8, [for example]. …

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Cash-only businesses present a couple of problems for the Scouts: There’s less money to be earned from today’s consumers, as well as an added security risk involved with carrying that much cash. “At Scouts using the mPOS sold almost 30 more boxes than they did last year, Harris said, marking a 4 percent increase over 2018’s numbers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Every year, Bhalla said, the credit card industry pushes about 6 billion plastic cards into the environment — a big-sounding number, though only about.015 They have to be secure and live up to the technological requirements of modern cards, which are no longer simple plastic rectangles.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

But as markets saw their prices fall, bitcoin’s numbers went up. Long a bitcoin- friendly nation (bitcoin is VAT tax-free in Switzerland, for example), Switzerland’s FINMA has also solidified plans to clarify the legal treatment of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology — sort of. Way up, way fast.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

The automotive industry just had a head-on collision — with technology. Now, they are investing in algorithm companies, math scientists, analytics and things that we would typically only have associated with leading tech companies,” McCammon pointed out. The biggest shift to me is the internal focus at the automakers,” he added.

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MARCH 17, 2017

The movement toward financial inclusion, and toward a consumer experience that is seamless and intuitive and secure, is one that brings companies to share process and perhaps even prosperity. So take all the security, administrative and efficiency problems that come with being cash only — but writ large. Connectivity and Collaboration.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

A growing number of companies are coming to understand how consumers’ granular-level data can lead to a host of revenue-enhancing opportunities, and set a path for customer acquisition and product improvement. But Macdonald said he is confident the numbers will shift in such a way to benefit the company and its data collection efforts.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

A growing number of companies are coming to understand how consumers’ granular-level data can lead to a host of revenue-enhancing opportunities and set a path for customer acquisition and product improvement. But Macdonald said he is confident the numbers will shift in such a way to benefit this company and its data collection efforts.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

While Amazon is fairly tight-lipped about specific numbers, eMarketer has cut its estimate of Amazon’s current online commerce market share in the U.S. It is a complicated question — and one greatly dependent on how exactly one lays out the math. New To The Market: A Secure Credit Card And A Sneak Peak Theatrical Release.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Consumers always have their debit card handy and and can provide that number to a sender – knowing that if something goes wrong they are protected. Senders don’t have to ask receivers for the ABA and routing number of the bank account they’d like the money deposited to either – and then when the 99.9 Iris Scanning.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

And so the thing we were doing was sort of solving like often securities law or tax or accounting problems for people with like derivatives. So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? Everything is securities fraud.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2016

To put into context how important cross-border has become in commerce opportunities, there’s one key number that stuck out from the findings of the Index — and that’s 57 percent. On top of that, merchants have to think about how they are going to push their marketing strategies globally. The results?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

An ongoing explosion of technologies, business models, payment types, platforms and services has made 2017 into something of a golden age for businesses, said Frechtling, but illegitimate operations are also benefitting from those innovations. Therefore, good guys and bad guys are using many of the same tools and techniques.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Just the math of an advisory firm only goes so far at the end of the day.” I could do the rough math on his firm. just to make the math easy. None of us are competing with a technology firm that has 200 engineers and $100 million of venture capital. If they were that good, were you paying them at that level?”

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MARCH 14, 2016

Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” It’s secure, it’s cheap, it’s faster than a speeding bullet. Is it one those amazing blockchain things?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

How firms can best leverage their internal data to improve the number of client referrals they receive. We also have a number of articles on retirement planning: While weak stock and bond market performance has challenged advisors and their clients this year, these trends have likely increased the ‘safe’ withdrawal rate for new retirees.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Welcome to the December 2022 issue of the Latest News in Financial #AdvisorTech – where we look at the big news, announcements, and underlying trends and developments that are emerging in the world of technology solutions for financial advisors!

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

It should be a call to action to the cybersecurity regulators that, when innovation — even intellectually and technologically sophisticated innovation — goes off the rails, it’s time to give a good hard look with an eye to reining it way, way in. Bitcoin is a fascinating technology on the merits. That means bitcoin.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

He’d teach them about a variety of things going on in the world – science, math, archaeology, literature. It’s not the safest thing to do, nor is it the most financially sophisticated, but it makes some people feel secure. Samantha and Nick would boot up “Jack” every couple of days. Yeah, I know, there’s that “P” word again.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

But no sooner did I start helping people in this layoff situation, I realized, number one, you gotta have empathy. I’ve been to well over 600, almost 700…I’m loose with my numbers here, but over 700 companies in the last 20 years, if not more. The best technology I had at that point was my mobile printing machine.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius sat down with Roslansky in this episode of our video series “ The New World of Work ” to talk about: How women can survive and thrive in stereotypically “bro” industries like the technology sector. And actually, I was reading a number of studies. So, it’s so important to cultivate sponsors.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

Import, export, finance, marketing, wholesale, retail, customer service, security, territory, logistics. Number one, a school district is a business. And number two, and I think that they were like, I’m sure there’s a note coming after this with a congressional allocation, and it never came. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The CFO College

JUNE 3, 2021

As technology develops at breakneck speeds, some companies are under the impression that bookkeepers are no longer relevant, or that they are no longer able to provide valuable services. Yes, automations can crunch numbers, but there is so much more to providing accounting services than calculations. Know Your Clients Wants and Needs.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Take, for example, how the Fed views statistics, such as employment numbers, when it’s thinking about inflation or raising rates so quickly, which is really constraining to people on an actual budget facing other inflationary pressures, and, by the way, not actually doing anything about inflation. So those numbers are disparate.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

The math shakes out thus: Each token is equivalent to one share in a particular company and the holder has the right to receive dividends, even though, as Bloomberg noted, “the companies themselves are not involved.”. We believe that this is the beginning of the traditional market’s merge with blockchain technology. The mechanics?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And so, I started then providing educational meetings on social security, and Medicare, and other topics, state planning. If I helped somebody make some social security and Medicare decisions, then they were asking me if they could roll money over and raising their hand. Who comes to a conversation about social security and Medicare?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

So, that’s the number one thing that I learned because when I really just lived full time in that box, I wasn’t understanding how much other life was happening around me. I felt like I would just be a number. He got a lot of phone numbers. My numbers were terrible. He said, “Hey, your numbers suck.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Once you’re in the door there, they do a really good job, in my opinion, of combining the personal element of what we do with their technology so that it’s not just an algorithm that’s matching some prospect to some advisor because of certain keywords. So, it’s a really good combination of human and technology.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

And so, I brought him in to help me redefine and reevaluate, one, our technology stack and also our overall client experience. So, we currently have our process, our systems, and our technology stack that we use but we can always be better. Anh: Yes, basically, that’s his main role. Anh: It was definitely the user interface.

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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. And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RITHOLTZ: Is that how you ran R3? Was that the basis?

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 6, 2023

I find that profoundly interesting because we sometimes will say it’s about money, it’s about time, but deep down there are deeper reasons and so being at Stanford and being able to study a science technology and society and psychology and sociology, that really allowed me to understand more of why we do what we do.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2018

The math behind his claim suggests that finding someone’s honest-to-goodness soulmate is a once in every 10,000 lifetimes kind of thing. His idea was that these personal, social networks would become even more expansive and powerful as the inevitable advances in mobility and technology made it easier to make and then share those contacts.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group. I was employee number 10. which was our Global X Lithium and Battery Technology. And we were very lucky because we were able to secure this ticker, RATE, which is definitely a very young product.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” And so, that can move the numbers, as well.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

Because a lot of the Stanford MBA graduates tend to find their way into technology, not finance. RITHOLTZ: There’s safety in numbers. RITHOLTZ: The whole concept of whisper numbers, which we still use the phrase, but it doesn’t really exist anymore. The numbers are correct. You get an MBA at Stanford.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

The artificial intelligence technology is deployed by cybersecurity firms in an effort to keep pace with the evolution of cyberattacks, as machine learning algorithms are able to improve predictability the more it is used. Data from the IT-Security Institute found 127.5 In the first quarter of 2017, it reduced to every 4.2

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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. Anything else?

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