PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

And the team got another crash course in tax compliance after the first year, when a lack of planning left them scrambling at tax season to hunt down information and vendors — some of whom had since gone out of business. It was a nice crash course early on,” Wu said. It just took a while to find the right one.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And the reason that I liked that one, because I’ve sold very few VAs in my career, but I could do the math on how that rider worked on a piece of legal paper and my calculator. Because, understandably, compliance wants you to live in the CRM system that they can do their compliance oversight on. Stacey: He won that prize.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 23, 2022

When you actually do the math, traditional braces or Invisalign can easily cost $24,000 or more for four kids! With proper care and compliance, though, Invisalign can give you a beautiful, straight smile. Keep in mind that many of the orthodontists we spoke to for this story stressed the need for compliance when it comes to Invisalign.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Bitcoin uses math — and math equations that anyone can solve and see — to provide this cash-like feature. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number. In May of 2016, the FBI reported that ransomware would top $1 billion that year — they estimated $1.6

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Petal wants to change the math on how consumers gain access to credit – and turn the tables on how creditworthiness is assessed. It’s been a journey, particularly on the compliance side, as offering a brand-new credit product to underserved consumers using a new underwriting model is generally something regulators want to hear more about.

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 17, 2022

You can grasp nonprofit accounting basics in just a few minutes, even if you’ve never taken an accounting course (and even if you hated math in high school). Check with your accountant and/or attorney to ensure compliance. That’s really all that accounting is, so don’t let the terminology intimidate you. . Other Taxes.

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CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I think what caught my attention is that it’s someone with very good maths skills and I think that’s when it started off and it planted a seed in my heart to say this is exactly what I want to do. I also then started implementing very strong compliance processes, having soft audits in preparation for the audit.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. Can you briefly describe your finance career journey and one or two highlights along the journey? Woranat Dumrongsiri (WD): My interest in finance began in high school. This made me decide to pursue my education in accounting. Don’t be afraid to take up the opportunities you need.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Maybe artificial intelligence will be the key to doing the math and extrapolating the data to make a specific offering to each potential customer. There are regulatory and compliance hurdles, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and a general cultural mood and attitude to overcome — plus a whole lot of negative publicity.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

So 1,800 clients, just north of 400 million, so if I do my napkin math, typical client is $200,000 to $250,000 of assets under management. You’ve gotta get out of this commission business, and the reason I’m here is because of the compliance guys are having strokes up there in Florida over what you’re doing here.

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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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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Michael: Well, relative to Zoe just makes things appear on your calendar and rough math, 20 to 30 leads a month can be 6 to 9 new clients a month, and so just you’re answering your phone and Zoe is making 6 to 9 new clients a month appear. Now, for a big firm, like you said, that math can work out really quickly.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. I didn’t know what any of these terms meant. Capital rules were changing. Risk appetite was changing.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” And so, we pivoted to more of a service team.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And from a public market, that sounds like it’s a compliance and conflict nightmare. And you know, the only thing math works on recognition by peers, and there’s some prizes. And yet, the amount of math that’s been produced over the last, you know, few decades is just mind-blowing extraordinary.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

We like to think about things, we like to research, we like to check things out, compliance. So, got to project this, got to model this, let’s run the numbers, let’s see how this would work, what the math would boil out to for my situation. What are the ways we hide? Even the analogy you used. Well, yeah.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

And that was very hard to do because when you’re running a Fortune 100 company, the compliance is to the lowest common denominator. And you start doing the math of the staff, and you’re like, “I can hire people for less than this.”

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And not because it’s not necessarily profitable to give advice for clients at those price points, but that in order to do it and make the math work, you need a lot of clients. And part of the reason we don’t sell anything else is because I came from the world where there was tons of compliance, tons of paperwork.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

They call it whatever compliance tells them to call it. Their compliance has to approve everything. 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.”

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. And ev all the sort of compliance, client service, legal, kind of, everything was done sort of on the side by investment people. Learn math, learn history.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

So, compliance requires us to keep our financial-planning practice and our estate-planning practice separate. So, it’s still separate and compliance does not allow us to cover estate-planning fees. This is part of the advisory firm? This is a whole separate thing that you own? Anh: So, it is a separate practice. Anh: Right.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And if you went through the math, it gave us hundreds of hours that a typical firm would spend. I’m going to launch an RIA just so that I cannot be worried compliance-wise that I’m giving advice that I shouldn’t be.” And we can run all the math about how to do that.” ” Natalie: Totally.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 21, 2025

But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. It was just a struggle from day one, particularly in the regulatory environment that is the securities business between lawyers and compliance people.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

He’d teach them about a variety of things going on in the world – science, math, archaeology, literature. Instead of surgically targeting only those bad dudes, and advocating the use of the software tools in place today that make compliance to state usury laws indisputable, the CFPB would rather take a sledgehammer to the entire industry.

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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. So any compliance people listening, I’m just spitballing here. That’s Barry saying it.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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. I remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead? BERRUGA: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Tell us a little bit about what you do on Twitter and how was it getting that through legal and compliance? RIEDER: Well, first of all, anything I tweet goes through legal and compliance before it gets out there, first part. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? I use immense amount of data and analysis.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let me say what your compliance wouldn’t allow you to say. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. And at the time, I was managing Protege Partners as a hedge fund of funds. We were short subprime mortgages with John Paulson.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

So that’s the math. You have to get compliance. So when the fed starts cutting, multiples usually go down and there’s just not enough earnings growth to offset a 10 to 15% multiple contraction between here and the end of the year. We have like 8% growth built in for next year’s earnings growth.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? RITHOLTZ: So I know we’re not going to talk about performance and returns because of the normal compliance headaches. We’ve never had a business — again, go out of business or not paying interest payment. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

There are a ton of expenses, and they’re getting higher with compliance and marketing and reporting and investor relationship, et cetera. MIELLE: And they’re incentivized to advise you to put your money with the safe first, all-in-one shopping, you know, very well staffed compliance-wise, investor relation-wise companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

00:10:47 [Speaker Changed] So in the additive services that Orion offers now are financial planning, compliance, CRM services, risk and analysis portfolio construction and advisor portal and investor portal. You know, don’t be overwhelmed by the, the vocabulary or the math or things that frighten people away from the industry.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

And so it’s one of these things that math works. Tell us about Math for America that seeks to improve math education in US public schools. BORISH: So Robinhood Foundation, Math for America, those are the two not-for-profit boards that I sit on. So we’ve done two things at Math for America.

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CFO Talks

APRIL 3, 2025

Yet the real challenge is that most financial evaluations dont fail because of bad math’sthey fail because they miss the bigger picture. For CFOs, making the wrong call can cost more than just money. It can derail growth, damage credibility, and put you on the defensive with the board.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

ASNESS: Well, I was striving for uncorrelated, but then the compliance officer in my head is saying sometimes it doesn’t come out to zero all the time. And it’s really not a compliance reason, I hope it’s more of an intellectual honesty reason. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. ASNESS: Yes.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. 00:01:29 [Barry Ritholtz] I I, I try not to butcher people’s names, but let’s talk a little bit about your, your background.

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