PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

Consumers love mobile apps: In fact, there were 175 billion downloads globally in 2017 — a 60 percent growth from 2015, according to App Annie ’s end-of-year retrospective report. When it’s time to pay, customers go to a dedicated counter where the cashier makes sure they scanned the correct number of items and removes security tags.

Retail 41

Retail eCommerce Securities Numbers 41

PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak, Kakkar noted, has more or less strapped a rocket onto that growth, as consumers have rerouted their commerce, working and social lives onto digital channels as they ride out social distancing in their homes. It takes that long to get feedback from consumers on credit card fraud.

Risk Analysis 68

Risk Analysis eCommerce Securities Leverage 68

Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Bond Markets and Default Risk In times of trouble, the first to panic are often lenders to the entities involved, and in today's markets, the extent of the reaction to country-level troubles can be captured in real time in the sovereign CDS (Credit Default Swap) markets.

Economics 100

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Venture capital interest and investments have been on the rise, so growth is in the cards. The price tag, however didn’t scare off investors — who liked Founder and “hipster-vegan” Doug Evans’ pitch — and thought that selling “smart juice” had a future. To their credit, Juicero did try to recover. SpongeBob unnerve you?

Sales 46

Sales Startups Compliance Retail 46

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

More growth, of course. Growth was stymied because customers were required to preload credit cards into their apps to use the program. And actually, that might not be a bad tag line to put on all of 2019 retail — many advances miraculous and unexpected, but all just getting started. The goal for next year?

Retail 54

Retail Communication Leverage Numbers 54

PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

The situation improved some in Q4 — Apple released the Apple Watch 2 — and shipment volumes returned to growth territory. Consumer Credit: Auto lending is showing signs of concern with higher delinquency rates and defaults. Brexit: The price tag on this divorce is getting higher. That would outpace the 18 seen in all of 2016.

Retail 40

Retail Sales Startups Technology 40

CFO News Room

JANUARY 24, 2023

The price tag was just shy of $9,000 — a reduced rate. That’s a little unsettling, because a Tweet in Links, January 11 from GM drew attention to it (“displays such a high relative growth advantage”) and in Water Cooler, January 18 , from Nature: “CH.1.1 However, CH.1.91 appears for the first time at 1.9%. Now here is CH.1.1

Manufacturing 130

Manufacturing Construction Economics Banking 130

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

I also ran our credit card business at the time. There’s the credit score, average credit score, all the things … RITHOLTZ: Right, what’s the risk, not the … JOHNSON: Right, exactly. RITHOLTZ: So Franklin obviously divests out of the banking business, the credit card business, the auto financing business.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 85

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Finance Technology 85

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. You know, companies were operating with very inefficient growth. Because it was easy to fund inefficient growth, you could be burning $1 million, $2 million, $3 million, $4 million a month. I had just finished another project I was been working on.

Valuation 117

Valuation Investments Marketing Technology 117

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

So, for us, we really are seriously asking, give us three months of bank statements, three months of credit card statements. Michael: So, as they start sending in things like bank statements and credit card statements, you’re manually digging into that stuff to try to actually organize their spending and cash flow information?

Planning 130

Planning Investments Accounting Math 130

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. So people think, they’d like to think that credit cards are cash, and they don’t want anybody to disavow them with that belief. BRYANT: Put your credit score on your phone.

Economics 56

Economics Education Profit and Loss Banking 56

PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

It was a friction that Woody Levin, DocuSign vice president of Growth/Consumer, decided to investigate. The Payment Tag is directly integrated into the document itself, enabling the sender to request a specific dollar amount, which pops up when the receiver signs electronically. What’s Next for DocuSign Payments? “We

Invoicing 60

Invoicing Securities Accounting Sales 60

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 23, 2023

This is a fascinating conversation about business growth and leadership and management and how to run a team. Then suddenly in the ensuing weeks, you get tagged to be CEO. And now we, you know, we’re just shy of $145 billion of assets on the management across the entire credit curve. GREW: It is nothing short of surreal.

Investments 60

Investments Finance Construction Technology 60

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Image credit: Bell Labs and [link]. Given its hefty price tag and IT requirements, the technology was installed in conference or board rooms and not individual offices. B2B eCommerce will ignite as digital tools, payments and credit offerings streamline those flows and suppliers commerce-enable their websites.

B2B 138

B2B Technology Communication Entertainment 138

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Well, a lot of work still to go, but there are clearly economies of scale, and I give full credit to my partners for seeing this before I did, and, hey, we need to hire a CFO or promote someone and say, you know, you don’t want Barry doing payroll and Josh doing the health care plan, but that’s literally what was going on.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 60

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Compliance Investments Finance 60

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

And then within LVMH, I moved to Tag Heuer, which is a pure watch business — RITHOLTZ: Right. It was really kind of in the Tag Heuer timeline for me, career-wise, that I became aware of Ben and of Hodinkee. The Qatar Economic Forum, powered by Bloomberg, is leading the charge for resilient global growth in a post-pandemic world.

Retail 64

Retail Advertising Numbers Economics 64

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You work at Capital Growth Financial and in former global markets before you join investing Giant Merrill Lynch in 2007, what was that transition like from smaller shops to a really, really big one? I do a lot of credit market work too, you know, just looking at credit spreads and things like that. That’s right.

Marketing 60

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 60

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

Full credit to Harrison on that. LINDZON: It was street.com to give credit was the place. LINDZON: No, it’s Cramer to his credits. What credit card do you use? I can either just give it away for free, which, you know, I started the cash tag dollar sign… RITHOLTZ: Right. Because it was just organic growth.

Leverage 111

Leverage Investments Valuation Finance 111

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. Everybody who is finance-adjacent, tech positive, growth-oriented, all went into crypto, in that window, in that sort of GFC, the pandemic window. So full credit to you. Why don’t you speak to him?

Finance 107

Finance Investments Math Marketing 107

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And, and so there was so much growth going on in Goldman when I went there in the nineties, and I had a unique seat, you know, in, in, in, and the partners there provided me a unique seat, and they gave me enormous amount of latitude and responsibility to keep building businesses. So we gave you huge r and d credits. It just tells you.

Marketing 107

Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 107