Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

While China does seem to produce more total research in terms of papers and is leading in patents—accounting for 61.1% Arcesati notes, “The US has historically excelled at attracting top STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] talent from abroad, while China has struggled to do so.

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CFO Talks

JULY 6, 2022

‘ I love breaking the mould of what it is to be a traditional accountant’. Today’s podcast is sponsored by Draftworx, which provides automated drafting and working paper financial software to more than 8000 accounting and auditing firms and corporations. CFO Talks is a brand of the South African Institute of Business Accountants.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2017

As it turns out, fraudsters – upon encountering a more sophisticated lock on the commerce “front doors” that are retail POS terminals – did not decide to give up their lives of digital crime in favor of becoming math teachers in Belarus. when fraud briefly went down – they have bounced back with a vengeance.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2019

This week, the world was presented with a truly unusual retail mystery: The Case of the Inexplicable In-N-Out Burger. By all accounts, it was a very normal trip, which included one extremely unusual feature: a single In-N-Out burger, wrapped and in photo-ready condition, lying in the middle of Sutphin Boulevard.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2017

As reported in May last year, the startup debuted with a retail loyalty program that tracked and rounded up consumers’ purchases, adding a 15 percent bonus to bring rewards and subsequent redemptions at various retailers. We can pay the retailer net of our commission.”. By doing that, we can pass along cash back instantly.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

who each week walk into one of those physical stores, in addition to the 100 million who are said to shop one of the retailer’s online channels. 3 post position, displacing Apple, at roughly 4 percent of retail sales. That retailer is, of course, Amazon. percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S. Housing (18.5

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

The moves comes as the firm is working to account for declining loan volumes. Changing market conditions (and some higher-than-expected default rates) have changed the math and softened investor interest some. That growth, however, was fueled by investors hungry for Prosper’s loans. And though Prosper was valued at $1.9

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

These retail products are sourced from around the world to help customers discover new items they haven’t seen before. Meanwhile, Wu doesn’t have to triple-check his math anymore: All that tax compliance stuff is simply embedded into the system. “We We now have a different model for doing retail.”. 7 at 12:00 p.m.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

The news follows big next-day delivery announcements from both Walmart and Amazon — in a week where both retailers had a lot of news about repositioning themselves in the market and reporting some pretty major changes. eMarketer says based on that figure it projects that Amazon accounts now for 37.7 retail sales. market share.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

LP: You refer to this as wealth accumulation without accountability. That’s just the math. NP: This goes back to the question of accountability. Economist, journalist, and former Wall Street exec Nomi Prins is here to explain the inexplicable. In what sense? If you’re not in it, you’re not going to benefit from the upside.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

More than half of the retail businesses we studied operate shops that sell clothing, accessories, household furnishings and gifts; provide personal services such as hair and nail salons; and operate fitness studios, neighborhood convenience stores, grocers, car dealers and auto parts stores. Doing The Math. In just 21 days. .

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2016

Kount’s latest report “Calculating The 9 Deadly Costs Of Fraud,” does the math – and emphasizes how not managing fraud digs heavily into profits. Although adopted by relatively few retailers, the “buy online, pickup in-store” process already accounts for 25 percent of lost and stolen merchandise for brick-and-mortar shops.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2018

For those doing the math at home, that clocks in at $4 billion spent on green beer, the obligatory “Kiss me, I’m Irish” shirt and, of course, the Shamrock Shake. That tweet came care of the official Twitter account of the police force of Dixon, Illinois. About 60 percent of Americans are expected to celebrate St.

Math 40

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2016

And while mothers everywhere might in some small way be tempted to turn to their parental counterparts and say “I can prove with math the children love me 50 percent more than they love you,” the data, when you look a bit deeper, is a bit more nuanced than that. And those are very high spend categories; collectively they accounted for $6.6

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

There’s no complicated math and no surprises: passengers can just sit back and enjoy the ride.” . “And when fares go up due to increased demand, instead of surge lightning bolts and pop-up screens, riders are given the actual fare before they request their ride.

Math 40

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

And Tom has helped with the introduction of GMO’s first retail product, the quality ETF stock symbol Q-L-T-Y-G-M-O has been institutional since they launched in 1977. This is the first time they’re putting out a product for retail. GMO has released last quarter their first retail product an ETFI love the symbol QLTY.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2018

And while the enthusiasm is good, according to Bresniker, the usage is sloppy and tends to obscure the fact that 1) there are many different types of AI, and the one to which we are specifically referring matters; and 2) AI is all math, and its outputs are only as good as the data sources it draws from and the programmers that set its rules.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2017

Subscription services were also reportedly a strong performer, with Apple reporting paid subscriptions exceeding 165 million (though during the investor Q&A, it was clarified that isn’t 165 million unique users, since Apple users will have more than one kind of paid subscription account). Apple Pay is experiencing phenomenal traction.

Math 40

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

And so the thing we were doing was sort of solving like often securities law or tax or accounting problems for people with like derivatives. So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? Like I was, I was not expecting that.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Any Mastercard debit cardholder can soon send money to any other person with a bank account in any bank across the U.S. – all 14k of them – and have that money deposited into that receiver’s bank account instantly. The culprit is said to be the use of the BitGo wallet and the structure of the bitcoin accounts itself.

Profit and Loss 43

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

So I knew what Bank of America was because my mother, it was a big deal to go to the bank and open a passport account, or to go there with my mother every couple weeks, and have, or my dad to make an appointment with a local, the local branch banker might have been the mayor, I mean, he was a very important guy back in those days. “Yes,

Economics 57

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

JG: Paintzen is very math-based — and so we collect a number of variables and put them into our system to produce a match. JG: It’s hard to say — we paint anything from bathrooms to large retailers. JG: It’s held in our escrow account, and we release the funds by ACH (digital). KW: What’s the typical project and project size?

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Now if we only knew the denominator and could do the math to see what those numbers really look like. They manage their downside by having access to SMB performance, given their relationship with them on a number of levels, and debit repayments directly from their bank accounts and at terms that range from 30 to 90 days.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. And so I’m gonna own this in a 401k, it’ll be a mutual funds in a taxable account. It goes so far.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

There is no longer much tolerance, or enthusiasm, on the part of consumers for digging into one’s pocket to find money or a payment card, or doing the mental math (well, OK, a smartphone has a calculator) to figure out how much to tip a driver. Nowadays, one’s card is on file with the ride-hailing service. The Partnership Model.

Retail 59

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. Because the idea of syndication is that you make a giant purchase and then you sell it off in smaller units to really more of a retail investor. And he said, if I wanted an accountant, I wouldn’t have come to you.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. And the ETF, the ETF wrapper, allowed people to get that exposure inexpensively, holding it in a brokerage account. And Greg Davis just does an amazing job. I think you will also.

Investments 52

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And definitely, their retail market participation is significantly lower than you can see in the U.S. And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Fewer consumers are carrying cash these days, noted Alantria Harris, senior director of product programs and retail for the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta. Funds paid via the mPOS were deposited directly into troops’ bank accounts. Future Entrepreneurs.

Math 47

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

To join, consumers link their spending method(s) (credit cards, debit cards, digital wallets) of choice to their Drop accounts. The idea behind drop is to build a system that actually works for consumers and create a rewards-based marketing channel for brands and retailers that actually makes sense and achieves what it is supposed to.

Math 40

Math Retail Marketing Numbers 40

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Joel Tillinghast : Well, okay, G, when he was six, my grandfather, who was a bookkeeper accountant at a textile mill died and my grandmother was a second string violin at the Providence Symphony Orchestra, which didn’t pay well then, and I suspect didn’t pay well now. And I was a math nerd as a kid. Tell us about that.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Russia and Ukraine account for 12 percent of the calories in the world. You know, part of why I read inventory numbers at retailers, you know, you talked about semis earlier, I think you have to think about the whole construct of what’s driving topline revenue for companies. I mean, what is it? RITHOLTZ: Right. RIEDER: Huge.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

Granted, Google and Facebook have all but locked up the mobile advertising world — and that might be putting it softly — and in-app commerce is still a baby, relatively speaking, accounting for a tiny part of eCommerce. Big Stakes, But Also Backlash. It helps me keep my engineers honest,” he joked.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

Granted, Google and Facebook have all but locked up the mobile advertising world — and that might be putting it softly — and in-app commerce is still a baby, relatively speaking, accounting for a tiny part of eCommerce. Big Stakes, But Also Backlash. It helps me keep my engineers honest,” he joked.

Advertising 40

Advertising Math Construction Education 40

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

Oil prices go up or down, you know, fashion retail goes in and out, unlike for example, selling an ingredient for pharmaceuticals, where they need the ingredient and you’re inspected by the FDA. KLINSKY: Why would I take more than the value of the accounts receivables. KLINSKY: Right, right. KLINSKY: Yeah. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

By ’08 and ’09, look, there were bankruptcies everywhere in every industry from retail to telecom. What accounts for the difference between the two in your experience working on the trading desk? MIELLE: Yeah, that kept — RITHOLTZ: Which is crazy. MIELLE: Exactly. That kept my colleagues occupied and making a lot of money.

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