PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

A lot of these platforms when they first begin their primary goal is really to match people together … they’re really trying to match up the companies that need these workers with the people that can perform the work,” Ting explained. “As The platform’s the thing, then, that brings the supply and demand together. Or, it should.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

Robots aren’t going to take over every human job, but they are certainly changing what types of jobs humans need to do, as well as how those jobs get done. In May, the startup announced a partnership with Premier Community Bank in Bradenton, Florida that Praeger said will extend its reach into this difficult vertical.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2017

“Now people aren’t just talking about it – they are doing it and focusing in on it.”. That can only mean one thing: The old model of resellers and hardware and using ISOs to acquire SMB merchants is ceding to one that has payments fully embedded into the software these SMBs use to run their businesses.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Why bother putting money into the 3 percent of sales happening online when 97 percent was still done in physical stores using plastic cards that worked just fine? Digital commerce has been a reality for more than two decades. There are lots of reasons for that inconsistency. Increasingly, consumers and merchants want even more than that.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Halloween , the annual celebration of the spooky and supernatural, is just a couple of days away. For many in payments and the vast ecosystem that it powers, the scariest thing about Oct. 31 might not be the sight of a kid in a full-on Frankenstein costume at the door on Halloween night asking for candy. Facebook … and the Facebook Community.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Predicting the future, though, is risky business – which may explain why many predictions are wishy-washy or soon proved wrong. Predicting the future, though, is risky business – which may explain why many predictions are wishy-washy or soon proved wrong. Payments will power that shift.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2020

Predicting the future, though, is risky business – which may explain why many predictions are wishy-washy or soon proved wrong. Predicting the future, though, is risky business – which may explain why many predictions are wishy-washy or soon proved wrong. Tuesday marked not only the end of a year, but the end of a decade.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

PYMNTS: What does a day in the life of a VP at Guardian Analytics look like? For example, our Fraud Desk department is a business model innovation we came up with to help customers who need to augment their fraud operations that go beyond our models/products. PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why?

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 25, 2021

The answers are not academic, since they cut to the heart of how stockholders will do over the rest of the year, and whether value investors will finally be able to mount a comeback. The Interest Rates Story To me the biggest story of markets in 2021 has been the rise of interest rates, especially at the long end of the maturity spectrum.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

Innovation can sometimes be seen as a solution looking for a problem, but it’s time to stop thinking of technology as bells and whistles and start looking at it as a necessary element of doing business for a changing consumer base – and up against a changing landscape of challenges and threats. That’s a 6.75 2 in the space worldwide.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Buying things won’t be something people plan around store hours or allocate chunks of their day to do – it will happen just like everything else: on demand. Buying things won’t be something people plan around store hours or allocate chunks of their day to do – it will happen just like everything else: on demand. The year is 2039.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

Vouchr next launched a full commercialization with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), which essentially adds another payment rail for Canadian customers to use when gifting money. It’s very, very simple for our customers to send money, but that wasn’t what we wanted to do,” explained Eddy Ortiz, VP of innovation and solution acceleration for RBC. “We

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 5, 2024

Tell us a little bit about where you went and what you studied. What made you think you could play on the grid iron? 00:01:59 [David Snyderman] I don’t know why I thought I could, but I definitely thought I could at the time and so I wanted to play at the highest level possible. They have an incredible track record.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2016

Why visit a bank with a teller when you can go to an ATM, and why go to an ATM (unless you need cash) if you can do everything you need to on your phone or laptop? Why spend hours trying to find out what restaurant has room for four on a Friday night at 7 p.m. The New World Of Automation Tech.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

I took this estimation process for granted until 2008, when during that crisis, I woke up to the realization that no matter what the text books say about risk-free investments, there are times when finding an investment with a guaranteed return can become an impossible task. What is a risk free investment?

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Future CFO

MARCH 17, 2024

Editor’s note: Embedded finance, when done right, can be a game-changer. But if a finance function hasn’t addressed a clear friction point, pursuing embedded finance might prove futile. David Brady (pictured), Enterprise Sales Director, Southeast Asia, Airwallex shares how CFOs can create a successful embedded finance journey.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

What is that? You know, how do you understanding the spread, how do you treat the spread, when do you treat the spread?   The transcript from this week’s MiB: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments , is below. They’re also owned by a foundation, something that’s rather rare in the finance industry.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We discussed all these things as well as why there has never been a better time to be a retail investor than right now, right here in this era. The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Tom Rampulla, Vanguard’s Financial Advisor Services Director , is below. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

They’re pretty much trying to get the same margin that they already do, but that just means with a higher price.”. And third: According to an informal PYMNTS Twitter poll, 52 percent of respondents said that they weren’t impressed by any of what they saw in the Apple X. The wait is finally over. Well, with three possible exceptions.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There are a few people in the world who are more knowledgeable about the management of asset managers and what it’s like to actually run a global organization and interact with lots of aspects of the business of finance, whether that’s acquisitions or compliance, or dealing with all the legalities of multi-jurisdictional regulations.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

His latest book could not be more timely, “The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest,” it’s all about the history of interest rates, money lending, investing speculation, funded by banks and loans and credit. What is a Master of Philosophy in Enlightenment and History from Oxford? So that’s what I did.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

They do debt, they do equity, they invest in public real estate, they invest in private. I knew I wanted to do something in business. It just wasn’t doing it for me. The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Cathy Marcus, co-CEO, global COO of PGIM Real Estate , is below. So, so let’s dive into your background.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

If you’re at all interested in ETFs and thematic investing, and looking at the world through a somewhat different perspective than what we assume is standard from the giant ETF companies, I think you’ll find this to be really an intriguing conversation. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Banks and credit unions are certainly not on their way out, even as they face more pressure from challenger banks, FinTechs and Big Tech in the coming decade. The unanswered question is whether “fin” is embedded into “tech” platforms – or if it’s the other way around. Google’s expertise is in UX design,” he noted. “By

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This month’s edition kicks off with the news that a new RIA custodian – Entrustody – has launched, as independent RIAs continue to clamor for more alternatives than what has now become the ‘Big 2’ of Schwabitrade and Fidelity.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 24, 2021

What is inflation? The first is that to define purchasing power, you have to start with a definition of what you are purchasing, and this detail, as we will see, can lead to differences in inflation measured over a given period, across measures/services. Implicit in this definition are two key components of inflation.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

Banking is being unbundled. Open banking, set in motion globally by a regulatory fiat called PSD2 , gives licensed third parties access to banking infrastructure so that they can make their services available to existing bank customers. Is unbundling the future? So it would seem. Television programming is being unbundled.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

Being creative, thinking out of the box, looking to not just imitate what other people do, but create new opportunities by just thinking about the world differently. Being creative, thinking out of the box, looking to not just imitate what other people do, but create new opportunities by just thinking about the world differently.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Using smartphones and apps to autopay at gas stations, or to find and pay for parking, or asking a voice-activated assistant on the other end of a speaker to order a pizza aren’t just what early adopters of cool, connected tech are doing. buy and pay. Not just some consumers, but almost all of them.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Its declaration that apps are “so 2015” cites as evidence that it took only six months for 34,000 bot developers to emerge, compared to the 12 months it took 12,500 app developers to do the same. It even prompted Bloomberg to all but declare apps — that ancient, nine-year-old digital artifact — an endangered digital species.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

Most weeks at PYMNTS, we feel like financial news reporters — mostly, because that’s what we are. In fact, between Walmart and Visa spinning up for another 10 rounds, central banks under persistent attack from hackers and Google just saying no to payday lenders, it was actually pretty wild out there. And who said payments was boring?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Guess what? That is, of course, if they want to survive what’s next. Mobile payments will be how we pay. Online retailers will be where we shop. Technology — not traditional payments companies — will be who leads the way. And until recently, it was met with the same old, same old response: Yeah, maybe next year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

And though we are sure that Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson are doing their level best, commercial space travel seems a few decades away from being a genuinely accessible reality. So, where to look to understand what’s next? Despite much complaining on Twitter, we have neither flying cars or hoverboards.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

But with two billion users – a billion or so of whom check in with the social network once a day – the reality, he said, is that what happens on Facebook can have massive ripple effects throughout the rest of society. It’s failure to meet that burden, Madhu noted, that has set the stage for what has come so far.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

In doing so, I will undoubtedly bore those of you who have followed the company closely, and know far more than I do, and I apologize. I will confess that I know very little about the Adani Group, and I have nothing invested financially or emotionally in the company’s fortunes.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

In response, people have fallen into two groups, with the Adani family and its supporters arguing that the short selling report is a hit job by a "foreign" entity to bring down not just the company, but also the country, and others noting that the report just reinforces what has troubled them about the company's meteoric rise in the last decade.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Barry Ritholtz] 00:00:07 This week on the podcast Michael Lewis out with a brand new book on Sam Bankman-Fried and F T X doing the Circuit. Talked about the process of writing the book, what it’s like to go on 60 Minutes and know that social media is gonna come at you. And the book is similar. Really enjoyed it.

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