Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

KCP Group ). • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life : Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math. ( Issues in Science and Technology ). • Here are some of the most interesting things I found. ( The Atlantic ). • A Good Memory or a Bad One? One Brain Molecule Decides.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Cryptocurrencies — like bitcoin — are “produced by solving complex maths puzzles and governed by disparate online communities instead of a centralized body,” reports said. The pilot will run until February 2021 and will use blockchain technology, the Riksbank said.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. The Markup ) • The Sounds Of Invisible Worlds : Like the microscope and the telescope did centuries ago, new technologies to capture and analyze sound are leading to startling discoveries about what the eyes cannot see.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

We take a similar attitude when it comes basic math and science — but when it comes to financial literacy, only 21 states require financial education, Dr. Annamaria Lusardi recently told Karen Webster. But Lusardi said technology is an excellent supplemental tool to layer over financial education — not a replacement for it.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

technology into its search engine. ( New York Times ) • We’ve always been distracted : Worried that technology is ‘breaking your brain’? 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. Bonds : Short-term costs for insuring U.S. doomers are focused on the wrong threat.

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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 said part of the proceeds will fund a technology push to further develop software and make it more broadly available. 15M In New Funding . That's our future,” de Vere said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Built In , a platform connecting professionals with technology companies across the country, has announced it raised $22 million in Series C funding. 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.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This week, a new partnership was announced with Zipline technology to make on-demand deliveries of select health and wellness products with the potential to expand. New Math: Walmart+ Doesn’t Equal Amazon Prime.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

According to the survey, three-quarters of procurement executives in the retail space say supply chain technology can offer a competitive edge to their business. It’s about the overall experience,” explained C2FO Managing Director Amanda Mathes in a recent conversation with PYMNTS.

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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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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

AUGUST 20, 2019

So it is investing in its own order and delivery technology, including GPS tracking technology that would be rolled out by the end of the year. The math just doesn’t work for restaurants. This will be an innovation step that will bring even further transparency to the experience of tracking an order,” Allison said last month.

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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. SC: Our biggest hurdle was going from a couple guys working out of a garage with a cool way to solve a math problem to convincing some of the world’s top investors to take a bet on us and our dream.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

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. Intel Secures AI Partnerships f or FinServ, Supply Chains.

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BlueLight

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In this blog, I’m going to apply that math to a growing startup. There are plenty of blogs that explain what net retention analysis is and the formula to calculate it. This is a good one. You’ll see how a 1% delta in net retention could mean tens of millions in MRR for your startup. Let’s get started. Startup: Alex’s Lemonade SaaS Stand ??

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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. By adding Cylance’s technology to our arsenal of cybersecurity solutions, we will help enterprises intelligently connect, protect and build secure endpoints that users can trust.”.

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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

APRIL 23, 2020

As Preston told PYMNTS, the math is fairly simple: “People just drove less, so they ended up saving.” As the traditional carriers offer payment relief, he said, in March, Metromile gave 30 percent of premiums back to customers across the eight states in which it operates without having to offer refunds or do anything differently.

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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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Adam Kae

OCTOBER 29, 2020

You'll need to do some math to understand: where your breakeven is. Invest more in new technology? Models, Forecasts, Calculations, Oh My! how many of your patients are in-network. how much your rate should increase to profit more for your practice. Think about what your practice's goals are. Do you want to grow more? Pay off debt?

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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. That’s either out of choice or due to a lack of technology to access other options. Consumers’ Complicated Relationship to a Vaccine .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Our simple idea was that better technology and better data science could improve access to credit,” Girouard said. Over the long haul banks will dominate consumer lending, and we think our technology combined with the funding base for a bank is the best of both worlds for the banks and the customers,” he said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

As retailers, payments providers and consumers prepare for the coming 5G world, there remain concerns about how well that mobile network technology will protect consumer privacy and security. And that’s why some researchers and mobile technology observers are sounding what amounts to preemptive alarm about 5G. 5G Security Holes?

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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

JANUARY 27, 2017

Jiobit, a technology startup based out of Chicago, makes something that seems like every parent, from those expecting to empty nesters, will want or wish they’d had. Jiobit hopes to change that with its flagship tracker by leveraging wireless technology and machine learning that adapts to a child’s daily behavior.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

While the fundamentals of math, science, English and social studies are still at the core of learning, the various technologies surrounding nearly every aspect of everyone’s lives is unavoidable. Hamda said: “I came with the idea to create Ozobot from watching my daughters be immersed in digital technology.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Children who participate in Girl Scouts learn life and leadership skills, and receive an education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and business. As we use more and more technology for everything, we definitely have to make sure that our girls are learning what is adopted and accepted now,” she said. “As

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Instead of trying to swim against the current and fight what is likely a losing battle against technology, their focus is finding ways to make screens a part of playtime without allowing passive staring or semi-active tapping to become a kid’s dominant mode of play.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

Visa’s EWA partners include technology providers like DailyPay , FlexWage , Instant Financial , PayActiv , and ZayZoon , as well as merchants and payroll companies. Frew noted that access to wages already earned has been a topic of conversation among employers for over a half-decade.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

We can now rethink and reevaluate things with math that we’ve never been able to.”. Now, she noted, they aren’t only visible, but actionable: powered by data and parsed by increasingly advanced technology. With [artificial intelligence] AI and machine learning, things are possible now that just weren’t a decade ago,” she said. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

The objective of this program is to bring MasterCard’s core principles of business to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to hands-on programs that engage women in getting to know skills that can help them pursue a career in those sectors.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2018

We saw credit improvement across our businesses, and growth math is now helping overall domestic credit card trends.”. The bank also reported non-interest expenses were up 7 percent, due mainly to technology investments and other expenses. The company reported earnings of $1.9 billion or $3.71 a share in the year-ago quarter.

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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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