CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Slicing the data based on sector yields the following: Against, there are no surprises, with energy being the only sector to post positive returns and with consumer discretionary and technology generating the most negative returns. I have seen no evidence, so far, that this is the case, but that may change.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The second [is] a bigger … fundamental cultural shift [toward] flexible, non-committal services.”. A quest for non-committal services is altering everything from real estate to tech to telecom, he said. It isn't quite Cars-as-a-Service. The first … was the rising popularity in lease models. Auto Subscriptions Go DTC .

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JANUARY 19, 2017

While few working applications of blockchain technology are in use today by financial service providers, the industry continues to place its confidence — and money — behind the technology. The latest is global consulting firm McKinsey, whose new report has put a price tag on the potential of blockchain: $110 billion.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

UnitedHealth reports it is also looking for a delayed cost impact as those who put off care early on in the pandemic are now coming back to seek service. The company previously reported that demand for healthcare services fell to two-thirds of baseline levels at its low point this spring. billion in equity funding.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Only 18 percent of table service restaurants and just 14 percent of independent restaurants reported having a mobile app. Consider the beacon technology used at Frames in Tokyo, the robotic waitstaff in Shanghai or even the Brekk-E-Tag at Hungry Jack’s in Australia. fall short. While the U.S. But the scales in the U.S.

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APRIL 23, 2019

Financial management is mission-critical to the health and vitality of small business (SMB), but it’s also one of the most difficult tasks for entrepreneurs and business owners that may have the skills to launch new products or services, but lack the accounting expertise to handle the numbers. Marrying Tech With Accountants. ”

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

But when it comes to retail technology , those sectors of the restaurant world have recently been making significant strides — progress that counters the image of a merely a place to go after a long day shopping, for instance, or where your mom will agree to eat because she demands “normal” food instead of that new sushi joint down the street.

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APRIL 26, 2018

Today, BingoBox has nabbed $80 million in venture funding and operates over 200 of its self-service specialty stores in 29 Chinese provinces. Self-service retail is big in China and, unlike Amazon, BingoBox is far from the only player in the unattended retail game.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Slicing the data based on sector yields the following: Against, there are no surprises, with energy being the only sector to post positive returns and with consumer discretionary and technology generating the most negative returns. I have seen no evidence, so far, that this is the case, but that may change.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

The price tag attached to a data breach on a small business has increased this year, according to new analysis from IBM and Ponemon Institute. The services, financial and energy spaces report higher average costs of data breaches than their peers in other sectors, the report found.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

Embracing sound-wave-based technology to facilitate payments, said the executive, enables both payments and proximity engagement services across any device in a manner that remains “independent of the instrument of infrastructure.”. We aim to explore the transport and consumer-internet sectors in the future.”.

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APRIL 4, 2016

have not yet given any relief to smaller businesses in the food sector. $2 the price tag for buying its competitor was $36 million, the firms said. 44% of SMEs sought funding last year, most often from a bank , found Bibby Financial Services in its latest survey.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Garner has long evangelized the use of emerging digital payment technologies to power consumer services. Thyngs plans to expand more into the entertainment world, but the crux of its business is in the charitable giving sector. CEO Neil Garner and his team at Thyngs want to change that.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

IoT also helps retailers bring forth new revenue streams with new products and services. Juniper Research , a research firm that analyzes the digital and mobile tech sectors, estimates that, by 2020, retailers will be spending $2.5 It can also lead to cost savings through productivity improvements.”.

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MAY 24, 2017

Plus, the Home can now offer voice computing on more entertainment services, including Spotify, HBO Now, Hulu, Soundcloud, and Deezer. Users can then check the app to view live previews, capture still photos, survey outfits in their closets, tag favorites and compare styles – with the help, if they want it, of an online Amazon judging panel.

Entertainment 44

Entertainment Forecasting Leverage Securities 44

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. WENGER: And it was a very rapidly growing service. So it was incredibly healthy, though, because we were never caught up in the “Oh my God FOMO” of we have to have one of these and one of those, and everybody else is investing in the sector.

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JULY 24, 2020

Now, identity is verified hundreds of times a day in everything a consumer does, from buying goods and services to interacting with payments systems and even visiting the doctor. It’s what the fraudsters tag onto because it’s the most current opportunity. And with a pandemic still raging, new issues have come to the fore.

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JUNE 28, 2019

Laundry service startup Laundrapp announced that it has merged with its biggest competitor, Zipjet , to become the largest on-demand laundry service. It has always been our mission here at Laundrapp to open up our service to as many people as possible. “It He added that there are plans to expand the service into new regions.

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The Charity CFO

AUGUST 30, 2022

These new standards are detailed in ASC 606 and impact all companies that contract with customers to transfer goods or services. Exchange revenue is revenue earned anytime you provide goods or services in exchange for money. On the other hand, non-exchange revenue (or contributed revenue) is unique to the nonprofit sector.

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APRIL 18, 2016

Plus, research places a price tag on B2B sales efforts, the alternative lending industry and small business expense practices. suppliers spend to pitch and sell their goods and services to corporate buyers; in-person meetings, it seems, aren’t cutting it. Expanded globally, the price tag of wasted money hits $1.4

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AUGUST 4, 2016

.” In theory, the deal would help Walmart juice its eCommerce offerings – as it tries to bring the same kind of success and customer pull to the digital world that it has in the physical retail sector. The deal, as understood so far, is mostly chalked up as a win – for Walmart.

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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. you have the sub-sectors because mindset hasn’t provided a differentiated path.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Given its hefty price tag and IT requirements, the technology was installed in conference or board rooms and not individual offices. trillion sector. There are four essential services that people rely on to get much of the other stuff done: they have to pay, bank, communicate and travel. And it was location-dependent.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And I think the Chinese government wanted to kind of isolate Evergrande and then insulate the rest of the sector. I would argue that what we’re witnessing today is the TARP Program in China for the property sector. Bank of America decided they wanted to sell their branch in Lima, Peru, and the price tag was a million dollars.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

I mean, at first, I got out of undergrad, and a degree in finance coming out of a small college at the time, Quinnipiac College, the gigs I was offered were essentially customer service jobs at mutual funds, call service, manning the phones, which I was no stranger to. They’re delivering outstanding service to their clients.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Every now and then, he will do a deep dive into things like sentiment or sector rotation. So we service the, the global private clients. Technology, you know, the sector itself, the technology still has a stronger relative chart pattern. What, what’s going on in the oil sector? We talk to them a lot.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

Why if, if the US has the supposedly more efficient private sector than big, slow, incompetent, bureaucratic government, why does US healthcare cost twice as much as the rest of the world and create worse outcomes? Tag on top of that for healthcare. There are no unions in the private sector anymore.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We dive deep into all sorts of things about running businesses, managing risk, and then when we began talking about his public sector service, we went deep into the Tax Cuts and Job Act of 2017. So, so 00:41:47 [Speaker Changed] Let’s break that down before we spend a little time in the public sector.

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