PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Other species seem to get by alright without it, but for us, language is essential for thought, communication, community and culture. It’s something as fundamental as touch was — but with a much greater communicative potential. So, it’s no surprise that voice technology has become as popular as it is. percent of use cases.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The fact that it comes with a social feed only reinforces that: Users are leveraging it to pay for everything from rent to beers. The campaign is rooted around entertainment, sports, food and drink and college subcultures: all the places where consumers are already using, loving and sharing Venmo.

Entertainment 44

Entertainment Advertising Communication Leverage 44

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Categories include smart contract platforms , media and entertainment (metaverse) , DeFi , and infrastructure applications. . MV Index Solutions (MVIS), a VanEck subsidiary, has developed a classification scheme to categorize digital asset coins in a way that captures the value and use case related to a coin.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As a starting point, it’s important to recognize that while conversations in the financial services industry over the last decade have entertained the idea that technology (e.g., Leverage the back office to the sky. Changing Business Models To Leverage FinTech To Offer Advice At Scale [23:13]. Carl: Yeah. Technology.

Technology 130

Technology Planning Investments Leverage 130

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Walmart is reportedly looking into alternative “drop” locations, so if there is a fridge or freezer in the garage where they would prefer the food to be delivered, Walmart could communicate that to its delivery driver. Clearly this adds more convenience to the day-to-day, but it makes the unexpected easier, too,” says the company blog.

Entertainment 40

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

That makes a clear statement about the direction in which communication is heading: into a realm of movement and sound, rather than the silent rhythms of words and phrases; into a realm where rules of grammar need not apply, where “there,” “their” and “they’re” all mean the same thing. Sad, you might say. Laughable.

Advertising 40

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2016

They want their brands to communicate a sense of who they are. Under Armour’s success has to do with a number of factors but at its core is how the company runs its business operations, how it competes on a few fundamentals that keep it close to a rapidly changing customer, and how it leverages social currency.”. Olive Garden; 4.)

Currencies 41

Currencies Retail Entertainment Advertising 41

PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

Chatbots will leverage advances in artificial intelligence to make the human-to-machine interactions inside of that ecosystem both conversational and natural. Going to my Weather Channel app is more accurate and faster, but admittedly not as entertaining. And who uses Facebook itself anymore to really communicate with their friends?

Communication 47

Communication Leverage Advertising Entertainment 47

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In our excitement to innovate and bring many new products into the world, we have lost the core of what made Snapchat the fastest way to communicate,” Spiegel wrote in the document, calling the update “rushed.”. And rushed in a way that has weighed heavily on both Snapchat’s ability to retain and monetize its user base. 30, 2018.

Investments 72

Investments Entertainment Sales Leadership 72

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” It’s constant communication through the year. How Matthew Communicated His Transition And Migrated Clients [29:08]. Michael: So, share with me a little more just how you communicated this. And then each client has a lead advisor that’s the direct communication. Here you go. What do they do?

Planning 130

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The, the security that 00:19:47 [Speaker Changed] Is 5% is high yield these days 00:19:49 [Speaker Changed] You had the, the Fed come in and, and push a lot of the banks and say, Hey, you, you can’t have a tunnel of leverage on the high yield issuance. But I, I think this extreme leverage is not as prevalent as it once was.

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Finvisage

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

It was going to leverage on its legacy business and cut costs there. They are known for aggressive trading strategies, which primarily revolve around highly speculative, leveraged options trading. Personally,I think it has been the most entertaining things on the internet for the last 10 days and to be honestvery educational too.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

Each of these players is leveraging their powerful closed ecosystems that, with payments embedded inside of them, extends commerce into the places where consumers want to take it – rather than the other way around. Potential that we see now being tapped by Uber, Facebook Messenger, Amazon, Braintree/PayPal and even Spotify.

Accounting 49

Accounting Retail Communication Leverage 49

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But, but I think if I was to go back through my career, that moment in time, you know, when there is this big wave coming, because it was the start of the high yield market, the leverage loan market grew dramatically, you know, from 200 billion in the mid nineties to $5 trillion today, high yield and leverage loans. And still growing.

Restructuring 57

Restructuring Leverage Investments Banking 57

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

And so it’s, it’s sort of managing that, all of those different constituents with communication. How do you take that massive information and communicate it to both the Morgan Stanley staff, the sales team, the brokers, the asset managers, and the investing public? So that, that’s the challenge.

Valuation 62

Valuation Investments Economics Marketing 62

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

BITTERLY MICHELL: Not in leveraged, no, not at all, give more …. What was your take away from the Jackson Hole festival of speeches and — and Jerome Powell’s — it’s kind of surprising that anybody thinks he didn’t communicate what was happening, but it seems like the market was taking a little by surprise. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Investments 117

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 117

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

So I tend to view computer coding not that dissimilar to communicating in a foreign language. A lot of times you’re learning your French, Spanish to communicate with someone in a different country. When you’re learning computer coding, you’re just learning how to communicate with a machine. COMMERCIAL BREAK).

Marketing 120

Marketing Communication Math Technology 120

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

We wanna be sure that our communications tools leverage large language models so they can be highly personalized. In addition to cybersecurity, there’s also the third party rule, which is, which is RIAs and investment advisors that leverage third party providers to provide services to their clients.

Investments 57

Investments Communication Benchmarking Technology 57

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. You know, the leverage in the system builds. RIEDER: It’s funny you said that because, listen, I think we’ve gotten to the place where there actually is too much communication. And then all of a sudden, sometimes violently, it recalibrates. RITHOLTZ: A lot, right?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Marketing Education 57

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2022

BALCHUNAS: While I was in college at Rutgers, and I was — wrote for the school paper, and I decided to major in journalism and communications because I liked it. at a crisis communication firm named Abernathy MacGregor and got to work with several clients and, you know, took them to Bloomberg, took them to Reuters, took them to there.

Profit and Loss 67

Profit and Loss Marketing Investments Benchmarking 67

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And you know, because they had leveraged in some cases bond portfolios when rates go up as you know, prices go down, they had margin calls ’cause they were trading on margin in a 00:41:52 [Speaker Changed] Lot of cases. What kept you entertained during the pandemic? You can be in marketing, you can be in communications.

Investments 57

Investments Math Risk Management Benchmarking 57

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. There was XO Communication and McLeod.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 104

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Leverage Numbers 104

CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The BDO team was the first company I have formally trained in Artificial Intelligence and working with a few more firms now by leveraging technology to increase productivity and boost their digital skills. My practice also acts as a training center for financial and business management graduates from False Bay College.

CFO 98

CFO Education Finance Leadership 98

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Every part of our lives is changing this way: how we eat, shop, pay, travel, bank, work, communicate, have fun, live at home and stay well. 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.

B2B 138

B2B Technology Communication Sales 138

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 18, 2023

I mean, there have been leveraged loans and high yield bonds since the 1980s. You get paid for the incremental risk that you’re taking in a more leveraged capital structure. RITHOLTZ: You’re looking at the cost of capital and how much margin or leverage you want to assume. So it’s been a great asset class.

Investments 62

Investments Valuation Marketing Currencies 62

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

And interestingly, I’m happy to come back to these things I learned in helping companies through mergers, particularly around things like communications and shareholder relations, and employee engagement that have now served me really well, couple decades later in my career. MCCARTHY: The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 62

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Construction Concentration 62

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

And you know, it’s funny, when I was on the road in the early days, you know, talk about even post GFC, you’d meet with large scale institutions and you talk about senior secured loans, private lending, covenants, reasonable leverage, et cetera, et cetera. KENCEL: So, now, leverage is lower. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Finance Banking 57

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

communications. It happened because what they said before, most other markets aren’t dominated by those three sectors that were dominated by in United States; tech, consumer discretionary, communications. So Barry, you know, it’s kind of funny, I think I mentioned this before that we’re not really very bearish.

Quantitative Analysis 62

Quantitative Analysis Investments Valuation Marketing 62

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

It’s that the, so that’s the core competency and it’s just leveraged into, if it’s a loan, if it’s a security backed by a loan, if it’s the actual estate itself. We ask all of our guests starting with what have you been entertained with these days? So from a data perspective, think about it this way.

Profit and Loss 57

Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Securities 57

Bramasol

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The importance of these elements has been underscored consistently in our work on implementing DSE solutions across many different industries including media & entertainment , telecom , software & SaaS , semiconductors , transportation , medical devices , electronics manufacturing , oil & gas , and utilities.

Technology 84

Technology SAP IFRS Compliance 84

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

RITHOLTZ: The communication was bad also. HOFFMAN: And he’s talking about, you know, the seat back entertainment should be a streaming platform, right? They’d come into the pandemic incredibly leveraged, huge amounts of debt. What’s keeping you entertained? What kept you entertained during the lockdown?

Treasury 52

Treasury Retail Economics Entertainment 52

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Howard Lindzon, Social Leverage , is below. So with no further ado, my discussion with Social Leverage’s Howard Lindzon. HOWARD LINDZON, MANAGING PARTNER, SOCIAL LEVERAGE: Hello, Barry. The next step from there was that Social Leverage. This all is leverage from the network.

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Leverage Investments Valuation Marketing 113

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 15, 2024

Now, I participated in some of that as a research analyst by looking at companies like Total Access Communications that tie wireless company, PL dt, Philippine, long Distance Telecom. In the case of total access communication, bought the stock at 11 cents, went to five, you know, went 00:18:16 [Speaker Changed] To 5 cents or $5. $5.

Investments 57

Investments Marketing Banking Benchmarking 57

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Here’s page one: The footnotes are very entertaining. Entertainment: “The Disappearance of the Hit-Driven Business Model” [ Dear Producer ]. Security State is leveraging the threat to ban TikTok from the U.S. But somebody hijacked my brand…. Report on the Biden Laptop” (ebook) [ Marco Polo ]. If a good source, important!

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