CFO News Room

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Financial planning technology, in particular, has allowed advisors to automate time-intensive back-office tasks and delegate routine analyses to support staff, freeing up their time to engage more personally with clients.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Indian educational technology firm Byju's has gotten a leg up from a $500 million funding round led by private equity titan Silver Lake , Bloomberg reported. Byju's works to simplify math and science for kids through games and videos, according to Bloomberg, catering to students between kindergarten and 12th grade.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

It also keeps an eye on emerging technologies, which is why it is buying Cylance , which will continue to operate as a separate company inside of BlackBerry. Securing endpoints and the data that flows between them is absolutely critical in today’s hyperconnected world. The acquisition was first brought up in November of 2018.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Intel Secures AI Partnerships f or FinServ, Supply Chains. 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

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Data integration between back-office platforms is now an essential component for businesses deciding to adopt a technology. “Integration in the technology space has gone from really hard, and in some cases impossible, to now very possible — but that doesn’t necessarily make it easy,” Love told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

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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 It’s important [to] build those 21st-century skills … in terms of learning technology.”.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2018

They have to be secure and live up to the technological requirements of modern cards, which are no longer simple plastic rectangles. The idea is that once the industry gets behind it, once you get to scale on the technologies, the cost will come down. The cards must be a bit more than merely durable.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

The latest Subscription Commerce Tracker explores how subscription-based businesses are adapting to an ever-changing market, and how they keep their payments experience secure and how new models are emerging to stay competitive. What Security Means For Subscriptions.

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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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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

JANUARY 14, 2020

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. We can now rethink and reevaluate things with math that we’ve never been able to.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

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. It’s set a due date for the report on clarifying the legal treatment of cryptocurrencies: the end of 2017.

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PYMNTS

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

MAY 19, 2016

In a hush-hush manner similar to Apple’s, the online retail giant reportedly made the move the previous year, but it didn’t get confirmed (more or less) until April, when the artificial intelligence image recognition technology startup Orbeus all but said (without actually saying it) that it was super-psyched to have been acquired by Amazon.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The math comes out to one per week. The growing familiarity with blockchain technology in general will help the case for bitcoin indirectly as cryptocurrencies achieve more awareness in the industry,” said Methe. The average rate of a new bitcoin ATM? In the interim, your bitcoin are now available by ATM and gift card.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

Hunter Macdonald, CEO and co-founder of Tutela Technologies , a seven-year-old Canada-based firm that collects and sells what he calls “crowdsourced” mobile data, shares his thoughts on how the data it collects could impact payments and commerce. Different Methods. Tutela does things differently from wireless carriers, Macdonald said.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

MARTIN: Fortunately, technology has been significantly advanced. RITHOLTZ: So when you say technology, it’s the technology at the New York Stock Exchange, as well as the technology at all the companies that are trading? We’ve recently upgraded our systems to our next generation matching engine technology.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

Hunter Macdonald, CEO and co-founder of Tutela Technologies , a seven-year-old Canada-based firm that collects and sells what he calls “crowdsourced” mobile data, and his thoughts on how the data it collects could impact payments and commerce. Different Methods. Tutela does things differently than wireless carriers, Macdonald said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

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. Amazon and Synchrony Financial are partnering up on a new secured card credit offer for Amazon Prime members looking to rebuild their credit. market share.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2016

Perhaps the most glowing of reviews is related to the iris scanning technology that eliminates the need to have a fingerprint unlock the phone. Authenticating the consumer to mobile banking apps and payments give this technology the potential to unleash a lot of commerce opportunities. Iris Scanning. Dynamic Pricing Algorithms.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2016

If you do the math, times that by the number of people anticipated to have a mobile device (hint: there’s more devices than people), we’re talking billions of people in just the last two years. And that brings us to the results of the recently released Index from PYMNTS and Digital River. 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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

4) said Chinese technology firm Baidu is working with Intel to combine their artificial intelligence and cloud technologies. Baidu is leveraging Intel technology for solutions in other industries, including video and shipping. Baidu is leveraging Intel technology for solutions in other industries, including video and shipping.

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PYMNTS

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

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Being Lulled into a False Sense of Security Boards of successful companies that haven’t experienced painful setbacks with CEO succession are more likely to be lulled into a false sense of security. The basic math of CEO succession is as simple as it is unforgiving. Timing is everything.

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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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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But maybe you’re a bit wary of the technology. Note: Cryptocurrency is digital currency secured by a technology called a blockchain that records every transaction made involving the currency. They vary in technology, features, scalability, privacy, and functionality. . Yes, even if you were bad at math in high school.) .

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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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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Among respondents without an advisor, 27% said they would be interested in receiving help on retirement income planning (27%), Social Security and Medicare advice (22%), developing a financial plan (22%), and tax guidance (21%), though notably tax guidance was the top area cited among those with at least $500,000 in assets.

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PYMNTS

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. million.

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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. When you bill two clients at $4,200 per month, just do the math. Increase Your Value and Boost Your Services with Two CFO-Level Accounting Tools.

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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

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 so there’s some work that will be done there, but technology is only making this easier over time.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

We’re not going in there and, “What’s your date of birth, first and last name, your Social Security number? The best technology I had at that point was my mobile printing machine. So 1,800 clients, just north of 400 million, so if I do my napkin math, typical client is $200,000 to $250,000 of assets under management.

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