CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

He’s a loss leader.” Again, if you’re thinking 60 or 90 prospects, and if you only convert 20%, and if you just think the average case being $500,000 to $1 million, you can quickly do the math and go, “Well, this makes money.” ” Michael: And so, then what was the whiteboard flow? Terry: Panic.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

And I was very fortunate to get a job at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. ” RITHOLTZ: So people also should realize, for those of you who’ve never traded futures, it’s not like options where essentially you could put up your losses in advance and all they could do is go to zero. RITHOLTZ: Doing what?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And so the way I came across finance is when I was in high school, I was applying for scholarships for college and I came across the Thomas Rex Smart Start Scholarship program that was run by Chase Bank. Economics had a fundamental flaw, like the base concept of humans as rational profit maximizing decision makers. Really interesting.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

I wanted to see the world, and whether it was investment banking, or basket weaving really had absolutely no bearing on my decision. What about what happened with a lot of banks during the financial crisis? It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. MIELLE: Lots of cursing. MIELLE: It is money.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

BRYANT: And so when this guy told me that we’re, at that time, 10,000 banks, hundreds of thousands of bankers, 100,000 banks. RITHOLTZ: Were there banks in your neighborhood or were you an unbanked … BRYANT: Well, I mean, it was so few you knew where they were, put it that way, right? RITHOLTZ: Okay. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

And they had a belief at the time of driving growth profitably whereby you could organically acquire customers. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. Was it a loss? I think it’s a great book for 30 something men in investment banking. That’s a great question.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was between corporate law and investment banking. RITHOLTZ: So even back then, when it was the size that you could take a Christmas picture with everybody in one room at Goldman, they’re still doing investment banking. KLINSKY: So I thought about a — and I did work for Larry Tribe in canon law for some time.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery. And then I was looking for something more applied.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. And Bank of America called me and said, would you like to be director of research and strategy? They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. 00:24:08 [Speaker Changed] You, you want to do a preliminary sort and say, what would a good looking bank look like? So I took that.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. 00:03:11 [Speaker Changed] Yeah, we started out, I started on banking, the two year banking program, which merchant banking was the group I was in.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. They buy tokens at a discount and resell them for big profits almost immediately.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And we said, let’s just take a little detour here and make sure we understand the credit risk of these things before we sort of travel, start making markets and banking and, and, and really making these a core part of our business. There’s 00:14:11 [Speaker Changed] No money in that bank.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2025

And, you know, therein began, I think the unraveling and, and a little bit of the, the loss of that, you know, cultural juice that had kind of historically made that firm special. And, you know, she had kind of gone to bat very controversially asking the bank to protect clients on, on some of the products that had gone bad.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. BROWDER: And I’ll just point out that this was back in the days when $100 million profit is real money. How many do you have in your fleet? It is $2 billion on the ship. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. He goes to m i t to study, study physics and math. So brilliant enough so that sure, he goes to math camp in the summer and find, kind of finds his tribe. But in math camp, he’s not the best. And the Undoing project.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This was the era, 2005, 2006, all of my friends were looking to get banking roles. And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. And so we, we get this contract written and I go off to grad school assuming I would go work at a big bank doing sales and trading in some quant role.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

At that point, I’d been covering, as you mentioned, investment banking, Goldman Sachs for a couple years. You talk about hotels, Airbnb, and then the banks were having people draw down their line of credit weeks and weeks before things really got bad. And again, I’m probably pretty lucky. So that’s the question.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Colin Camerer : So I, some of it was when I was in college at Johns Hopkins, I, I studied physics and math. And there was people, Physics didn’t have, people, psychology didn’t have math, economics was kind of the right mix. The math doesn’t math. That was too abstract. Yeah, I’m gonna vote.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. He knows how to manage risk, and he knows how to trade for a profit for a p and l. We did not have the strongest West Coast banking presence. He knows how to run a team.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

“After a brief and undistinguished career at the Bank of England” You return to academia as a professor of econometrics at the University of Bristol Who puts that in their CV? But when I got to Cambridge, you know, the math was sort of serious there. So, you know, I took my math into statistics and things.

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