CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

America has gone from a society where the people were free to try almost anything to one where they must seek permission from authorities—authorities who have little if anything to gain from saying “yes” and much to lose if they do. Schools could test for that, but for some reason don’t.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

A Japanese venture launched in 2018 by Paytm, India’s top payments app, now has 10 million customers in Japan, according to a report on Thursday (Aug. PayPay is also getting support from one million merchant partners and local stores in Japan, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and CEO of Paytm, told the news outlet.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In other news, OKEx , the world’s largest futures cryptocurrency exchange, announced four major partners for OKB, its global utility token. The company explained that the token will first be listed on Ledger’s hardware wallet, as well as by Aliniex, Vietnam’s largest OTC exchange, and Bvnex, Vietnam’s top fiat/cryptocurrency exchange.

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APRIL 17, 2020

In today’s top news, Uber withdrew 2020 guidance as it anticipate revenue decline, and China’s economy will record its first-ever GDP loss. Despite the still blowing headwinds, society has turned its eyes toward the horizon and started actively planning for what will be a phased walk back to normal. billion to $2.2

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Consider the news this week of the Apple Card’s debut , allowing holders to make purchases and earn cash back, among other features (and, of course, launched jointly with Goldman in a bid to spur the bank’s push into consumer-focused financial services). The same principle holds true for technology. Thus: Keep the card separate.

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APRIL 10, 2020

It’s the end of the workweek, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. billion in loans at BoA per news at the time. Nationwide Building Society, the U.K. TurboTax Rolls Out Free Tool For Faster Stimulus Payments. More than 85,000 people sought $22.2

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

News reports attributing the use of inappropriate and hurtful language to me during a media-training session regarding race are true,” Schnatter said in a statement released at the time. Simply stated, racism has no place in our society.”. He also was accused of graphically describing violence against minorities.

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MAY 8, 2019

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. In Malaysia , Boost along with Shell Malaysia unveiled the availability of a payment service through an eWallet at Shell stations, Digital News Asia reported. Coverage includes the unveiling of an eWallet payment service with Boost and Shell Malaysia.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

In other countries where PSD2 has been established a little longer, it’s SCA that’s taking top priority once again. Finnish merchants are moving quickly to prepare for SCA, but many of them remain unaware of the rule to begin with, according to the Central Finnish Cooperative Society (SOK).

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In today’s top payments news, ongoing security concerns have caused the Federal Reserve to take a closer look at the Big Tech firms that serve the banking industry. President Barack Obama is warning about the potential negative impact that technology can have on society. And Former U.S. Former U.S.

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MAY 18, 2020

This much-awaited bit of good news in the fight against the novel coronavirus sent shivers of anticipation through the stock market, which drove the company’s shares up some 26 percent intraday as the development broke. But it could do a lot to dispel the anxiety that what’s happening now is never going to end.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the roll out of a new payment solution from Canada ’s Lightspeed. The technology taps into both big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), which reportedly allow business to create promotional deals.

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JULY 31, 2019

In other news, Huobi, a global digital asset service provider, announced a partnership with industry group Global Digital Finance (GDF). As a patron member of Global Digital Finance, Huobi is honored and delighted to work with top institutions all over the world.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Now comes the news, as detailed by Coindesk , that in Catalonia the government has said it will develop a DLT-based identity platform that seeks to “give citizens control of their own data when interacting with online services.”. According to a statement, the minister said on Monday (Sept.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Kuroda said that “If Libra is introduced, it could have a huge impact on society.”. With a nod toward privacy regulation, this past week saw the European Union’s top court ruling that Google need not extend the “right to be forgotten” across the globe. On Privacy.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

Another weekend is on tap, and that means a new edition of the PYMNTS Weekender, which ensures that you have not missed any important news from the last and very busy week of payments and commerce. PayPal’s Schulman: Why Payments’ Biggest Innovations Are Yet To Come. Deutsche Bank Predicts Weak Fiat System Will Fuel Demand For Crypto.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

News has emerged, via Bloomberg , that Singapore-based automotive subscription operation Carro has gained the top automotive investment banker for HSBC in Asia as the company’s new chief financial officer. Automotive sales are increasing going digital — and more consumers are buying more used products of all types online.

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JUNE 1, 2018

The system, in the works since at least 2014, seeks to punish people who have committed crimes such as spreading fake news about terrorism or creating problems on flights from riding on transportation for as long as a year. That’s a grand vision, and not all grand visions make it fully into reality.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI) is all around us in today’s technology-driven society. With AI tech startup ThoughtSpot’s latest round of funding news , it seems that there is no end in sight to the bounds of artificial intelligence. An analysis that may have taken weeks to do in the past would now be complete in minutes, thanks to AI.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It ended up being the better part of 1500 or 2000 percent going all the way up To to the top in either 98 or or 2000 if you wanna measure it there. Refrigerators, television, radio, dishwashers, plus the baby boom on top of it. Global conflicts and war just exert a horrific cost on society. And all the rest. Who am I voting for?

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JUNE 28, 2019

million people worldwide who are unbanked, and exist on the financial margins of society. It is notable that, upon hearing the news, nearly all regulators who offered comment said something to the effect of “hard pass.”. The vision, she agreed, is undeniably big, bold and targeted at a worthy goal: the inclusion of the 1.7

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AUGUST 6, 2020

I think across the board as a society, we are leaning into technology in a very big way here,” Roberts said. Roberts said that’s big news, both for what it means now and what it portends for the future. “I It will soon become possible to offer financial products to clients precisely at the moment of top relevance.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In today’s top payments news, Flywire appointed Rob Orgel to the newly created position of president and chief operating officer. Also, Uber ’s Q3 results beat analyst estimates in terms of headline numbers. Nium, Formerly InstaRem, Drops Bank License Pursuit.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

The news agency said that while Pan stopped short of calling for Ant’s breakup, officials want the firm to set up a separate holding company to ensure its capital adequacy and regulatory compliance. The current saga as it unfolded is consistent with the values of Chinese society,” he told Webster. “In

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JUNE 8, 2018

The recent news that Goldman Sachs is the first financial institution (FI) to sign up with U.K.-based Businesses have long played war games (certain veterans might take issue with the use of “war” to describe issues related to profit and loss, but capitalist society long ago embraced the idea that “business is war”).

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AUGUST 20, 2019

The Society for Human Resource Management has estimated that 8 percent of U.S. Borrow beyond that amount and rates top 6 percent or 7 percent. the good news is you’re going to get them to a much better financial place really fast,” he said. Increasingly, companies across the U.S. Then there’s who’s shouldering the debt.

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MARCH 24, 2016

The world of mobile payments news this week started out in the one region of the world that doesn’t often make much news when it comes to what U.S. Which brought about news from some of the biggest players in mobile payments, like Xoom, PayPal and Western Union. companies are doing in mobile commerce: Cuba.

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JULY 21, 2018

And while guesses varied – bagels, blintzes, belly-dancers, bitcoin, berries – the Twitter streams more or less correctly forecast the news that came down the pipes on July 11: the “b” stood for burgers. In fact, they probably don’t even make the list of the top three for the last decade or so.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The top half of the box fits like a glove over the bottom half. Only a very wealthy society can afford to devote so much human ingenuity and effort to the careful production of packaging materials that are promptly discarded, in most cases, without a thought after a single use. I’m talking about packaging.

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CFO Talks

DECEMBER 26, 2021

But what Hilti is known for, next to the Hilti Boy, is really the drilling and demolition tools, where you see Hilti on the top side. I guess it’s not a secret that the top line goes down in those months where you have full lockdown but with direct customer contact, we were able to restart after the lockdown.

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APRIL 2, 2016

Again, all the stuff about Starfleet and boldly going where no man has gone before doesn’t take place until the 23rd century in the “Star Trek” canon, but still, we as a society are still pretty clearly running behind Gene Roddenberry’s schedule. . Good news: Try Amazon Alexa, an AI with personality. .

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APRIL 30, 2018

The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. This all comes on top of Warren Buffet dumping nearly all of his IBM holdings at the end of last year.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

And bad news usually leads to good opportunities, and good news usually leads to problems. RITHOLTZ: In all of these sectors, is it very much a winner takes all, where you really want to be in the top, maybe second company, but not much further beyond that? Forstmann Little was a top-top performing place.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A more tangible way to see why intangibles have become a hot topic of discussion is to look at the evolution of the top ten companies in the world, in market capitalization, over time: In 1980, IBM was the largest market cap company in the world, but eight of the top ten companies were oil or manufacturing companies.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 27, 2023

The 2022 third quarter report included news that revenues would come in below analyst estimates, both in dollar value and number of cares. I will wager that many investors in Tesla would be hard pressed to name its CFO or others in its top ranks, and that is an indication of how completely Musk has dominated the Tesla conversation.

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JULY 18, 2020

When we say people are looking for bubbles to help them integrate back into society, we aren’t speaking entirely metaphorically about extra features and add-ons that offer additional layers of safety and separation. For them, we have some good news: There are ways to buy the bubble, metaphorically speaking – sometimes at a premium price.

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AUGUST 3, 2019

Some of them even tasted pretty good, mostly when smothered with ketchup and other burger toppings. That’s not to say that nothing holds on – spaghetti and meatballs has been on 90 percent of humanity’s top-five list for the last 500 or so years. Which isn’t to say they were uniformly terrible or even that they tasted bad.

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