Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The increase in default spreads was not restricted to foreign markets, as fear also pushed up spreads in the corporate bond market.

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Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

Once closed, the conjoined firm will offer enterprise banking, payments, capital markets and global eCommerce services to financial institutions and businesses around the world. As a combined organization, we will bring the most modern solutions targeted at the highest-growth markets.

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Reconciliations eCommerce Retail Currencies 50

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. And from a public market, that sounds like it’s a compliance and conflict nightmare. But there’s no market for allocating resources to that. I’m not suggesting we should get rid of markets. RITHOLTZ: So 3.0

Valuation 118

Valuation Investments Marketing Technology 118

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

Should you add more to marketing or in collections, right? Yeah, they were pioneers in emerging markets and really kind of global equity. JOHNSON: Yeah, and then we took on some debt. And they’ve all been focused on, if you think about the big macro trends going on in the industry, one is private markets are here to stay.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 86

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Finance Technology 86

PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

Those fights were over retirement savings 18 percent of the time, having enough money to pay bills 14 percent of the time and how to pay off debt about 12 percent of the time. More than a third said they were mostly unaware of their partner’s debts. ” If you are concealing debt, it’s wise to come clean immediately. .”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2018

The On The Edge look, well, a bit less on the edge and a bit more like “solid financial citizens” with college degrees – low debt, only a minority (43 percent) living paycheck-to-paycheck and a majority saving money (57 percent). They rarely use credit cards, and only about 5 percent report having student loans. Better Financial Education.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

Opponents of the practice note that, in its most vicious form, payday lending is an expensive predatory scourge on the class of borrowers it attracts, drawing them into a confusing and protracted cycle of debt. Over the course of that experience, they paid $520 on average, which is much more than the $55 price tag that gets quoted.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

1), was provided by Bridge Bank’s Technology Finance Group in the form of venture debt. The firms kept the price tag of the funding private , but LendingFront said it will use the backing to strengthen its solution, which uses continuous integrated monitoring of business lifecycles to mitigate borrower risk. and Singapore markets.

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B2B Startups Finance Investments 50

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. Import, export, finance, marketing, wholesale, retail, customer service, security, territory, logistics. BRYANT: We’re reducing debt by 3,500 bucks in a year. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Economics 57

Economics Education Profit and Loss Banking 57

PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

Amend that a bit to state that when it comes to corporate events, cash may be … well, kind of king, right along with debt. A spate of headlines across Wall Street and venture capital these past several days shows a broad range of corporate actions that take into consideration, in varying degrees, cash/debt and valuation.

Valuation 40

Valuation Currencies Leverage Investments 40

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

His name is Robert Koenigsberger, and he has a fascinating career in emerging market, opportunistic and distressed debt investing. If you’re interested in what it’s like investing in emerging market debt, how that part of the investment firm has changed over the decades as the world itself has changed.

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Restructuring Investments Marketing Banking 61

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

[ Gary Cohn ] 00:03:56 So two years earlier, and now we’re going back in time, the summer of 80, for those of you that remember the summer of 80, the Hunt brothers at that point were silver, were exactly, were trying to corner the gold and silver market. They were buying the, the Comex market. It was brand new.

Marketing 108

Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 108