CFO Talks

MARCH 28, 2023

Before joining Taxdirect, he held senior managerial positions at Silverline Technologies and Solarlux Solutions. I would say it was just an issue of numbers because I also did maths and I was interested in calculations, so it was just a switch. This includes financial and management consulting, tax and payroll services.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

In an interview with PYMNTS, Metromile CEO Dan Preston noted that any number of industries, including insurance, are moving toward a digital-first mindset. As Preston told PYMNTS, the math is fairly simple: “People just drove less, so they ended up saving.” ” Looking Ahead.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning operations. PYMNTS: Can you give me some personnel growth numbers? SigOpt now helps optimize fraud detection and investments like beer brewing and even the manufacturing of synthetic rhino horns.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

In other words, some of their identity attributes can help them attain housing, a job or credit – but that identity might not be very good: That is, it might be bad data, inaccurate data or data filled with bad math. Shrier breaks the evolution of biometric technology into stages: At the beginning, he said, biometrics 1.0

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The fifth annual Breakthrough Prize awards were doled out yesterday to researchers in the fields of fundamental physics, life sciences and math. Hosted at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, the Breakthrough Prize awards celebrate the year’s biggest achievements in the sciences. Yuri Milner, and Jack Ma of Alibaba, among others.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

However, a highly effective vaccine that doesn’t require specialized transportation or storage might change the math on distributing the substance more widely and quickly. PYMNTS also found that a fair number – 37.9 That’s either out of choice or due to a lack of technology to access other options.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

At a high level, said Benson, conversion can be pictured along three “vectors,” including the actual form factor or technology the consumer has in hand (literally), the payment methods the consumer prefers and the “run time” of the transaction – literally, how long it takes to complete. For those firms whose customer bases stretch beyond U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

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. Children who participate in Girl Scouts learn life and leadership skills, and receive an education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and business.

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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. 015 percent of the world’s total plastic use.

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PYMNTS

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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Future CFO

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. WD: Given the current pandemic and the technologies we have today, all of us need to transform ourselves. Thinking beyond numbers and building trust Numbers are not everything to the business and management team.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

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

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

PYMNTS will update with all the details and provide analysis once Amazon releases its numbers. All toys selected will in some way be related to science, technology, engineering and math. Profits from Amazon Web Services are also expected to contribute significantly to the company’s growth.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Even technology firms have been hit — with firms out of business, or at least not in business the way they once were, firms aren’t spending money. Sixty percent of technology firms have seen their sales decline by more than half, as well. Those numbers are so stark that they are worth repeating. Doing The Math.

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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 6, 2020

The global pandemic has surfaced any number of questions for businesses trying to chart a course toward a future that is without modern, historic precedent — and a future for which many of the elements that will shape it are largely unknown. How Much Will Digital-First Stick?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2017

The first is the assortment of the product options that are available online, and the second is the number of platforms. What other technologies have made an impact one way or the other? If I was to include the mobile site as well, those numbers would increase by another 10 percent. Secondly, it will be product offerings.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

The MATH doesn’t add up,” Jefferies analyst Randal Konik wrote in a note to clients. By the numbers — including eCommerce — Victoria’s Secret’s same-store sales rose 1 percent after a 14 percent drop in the same period a year ago. Missed headline numbers in its latest quarter, which was impacted by the weather.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

However, one company — Bannerman — has created the technology close that gap and make people safer on a daily basis. Our mission is to keep our cities safe, and we’re building the technology to make that a reality. What we’ve done is used technology to streamline communication. We raised a small number and hit profitability.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

The money flow — between, say, the United States and Mexico, or as remittances evolve in newly (almost) cashless India — may be embracing technology, but interactions between banks, wires and processors are still required. Numbers for Fun, Profit and Failure.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. New York is number one. Two reasons.

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CFO Talks

JULY 6, 2022

I was always the science kid, I use to love science and math and technology, that was a big thing for me. Yes, as far as financial information and numbers are concerned, we want that to remain fairly stable.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

If a business doesn’t have the robustness in terms of data sets, the data scientists needed to analyze that data or even the technology infrastructure to run analytics properly and perform real-time decisioning in house, then they may be better off leveraging the scale of a platform that does. The Rise Of Analytics As A Service .

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

JG: Paintzen is very math-based — and so we collect a number of variables and put them into our system to produce a match. KW: Do you put a cap on the number of painters allowed into the system? Our numbers every year have stayed at that 50/50 level. JG: Painters are still getting more jobs than they would’ve gotten.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2018

Some undertake a complex, moneyball-esque statistical analysis of every team, every match-up and every venue in the hopes that they can use math to crack the winning code. It’s not your grandmother — despite the entrenched notion that scams mostly dupe older, less technologically adept, consumers. Amazon vs. Grocery .

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers. KLINSKY: Well, that is — and it was kind of venture capital numbers because the dollars were so small. And it was considered one of the first grade kind of technological deals. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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.

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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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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. Starting with… Amazon. market share. in a blog post.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

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? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. Like, like the, you know, like the accounting standards.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

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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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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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