PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Financial authorities and lawmakers in Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) quickly followed Dubai’s lead as consumers and merchants headed online. MENA nations’ original rules involved data privacy, but they were focused on developing the open banking ecosystem and allowing information to move freely.

Banking 70

Banking Securities Compliance Finance 70

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The first uses Lumos, Facebook’s image and video understanding, machine learning platform, to enable image search by content rather than relying on text or tags. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and Saudi Arabia, with plans to expand worldwide and to facilitate disaster aid for additional types of incidents.

Transportation 46

Transportation Advertising Numbers Accounting 46

Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

From Alfred Sloan at General Motors to Jack Welch at General Electric to Steve Jobs at Apple, there is a history of CEOs being tagged as superstars (and indispensable to the organizations that they head), in successful companies. To illustrate, consider two companies at opposite ends of the spectrum.

Valuation 113

Valuation Profit and Loss Entertainment Investments 113

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. JOHNSON: So if you have a client who says, I really want to, my daughter will say, I really want things that are pushing towards net-zero on carbon. So she wants her portfolio managed that way. JOHNSON: And express it through that technology.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 85

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

PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

As the world knows, Elon Musk sent a short missive – over Twitter, where all the missives are short – that he was considering a go-private deal, with an attendant price tag of about $72 billion, or at $420 a share, where the stock ended last Monday at around $356.

Valuation 40

Valuation Currencies Leverage Investments 40

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Bank of America decided they wanted to sell their branch in Lima, Peru, and the price tag was a million dollars. KOENIGSBERGER: So more than Saudi Arabia. So now we know that, you know, Saudi Aramco has done an IPO. KOENIGSBERGER: That’s right. So one example that was a lot of fun, I think, was ‘89 or ’90. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

Restructuring 60

Restructuring Investments Marketing Banking 60