PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In about three hours, $13 billon of value was wiped out of the crypto market as the values of major digital currencies plunged. Today’s drop happened as financial authorities are warning about a possible economic threat. Bitcoin dropped by roughly 5 percent and Ethereum and XRP dived by more than 10 percent at around 10:30 a.m.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

31, 2018, will mark the 10th anniversary of the day that a link to a paper , authored by Satoshi Nakamoto , describing the digital currency called bitcoin was first publicly circulated. Ten years after bitcoin launched, it remains the go-to currency of criminals and a way for cybercrooks to wash their money. The end of this month, Oct.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Today, the corporate treasury team plays a critical role helping companies navigate a business environment rife with economic uncertainty, geopolitical risks, regulatory change, trade tensions and supply chain disruptions. Not anymore.

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Companies looking to advance in this new economic environment will continue to rely on the same four strategies that have proven successful over the past 16 months. Concentrate on particular areas of improvement. As much of the developed world reopens, many businesses are optimistic and looking to invest in a new era of growth.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Economics Risk Management Reconciliations 52

Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

It is true that economic activity has leveled off and housing prices have declined a little, relative to a year ago, but given the rise in rates in 2022, those changes are mild. If anything, the economy seems to have settled into a stable pattern, albeit at the high levels that it reached in the second half of 2021.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has again released its report on top risks facing banks, with its Spring 2017 analysis warning FIs that threats are coming from all angles. Noreika, acting Comptroller of the Currency, in a statement. Today, the federal banking system remains healthy,” he continued. “As

Banking 46

Banking Compliance Currencies Concentration 46

Global Finance

OCTOBER 11, 2024

trillion in extended credit and new capital for its consumer and institutional clients while moving $10 trillion in over 120 currencies daily. in 2022, according to the International Monetary Fund’s July World Economic Outlook 2024. Industry leadership, advancements in digitalization and corporate citizenship also factored in.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

Krona: The Swedish currency takes it place among other decliners, such as the Turkish lira and Venezuela’s bolívar , amid economic woes writ large. The currency is down eight percent for the year against the euro, and the lingering impacts of the trade war are to blame. Net sales were up 4.3 trillion, and U.S.

Currencies 40

Currencies Concentration Accounting Leverage 40

Global Finance

JULY 25, 2024

Physical cash concentration structures automate transfers between accounts into a single account; clients can mitigate FX exposure and get better visibility and control; 2) Notional pooling. Cross-currency sweeps can generate a consolidated global position of cash from two accounts in different currencies.

Treasury 52

Treasury Analyzing Data Concentration Currencies 52

Global Finance

JULY 25, 2024

Physical cash concentration structures automate transfers between accounts into a single account; clients can mitigate FX exposure and get better visibility and control; 2) Notional pooling. Cross-currency sweeps can generate a consolidated global position of cash from two accounts in different currencies.

Treasury 52

Treasury Analyzing Data Concentration Currencies 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2018

That means a slowdown in trade finance operations – and economic struggles aren’t the only factor behind this trend. As such, often importers and exporters are equally exposed to currency volatility and wider economic uncertainty.” percent in 2016. Citing research from U.K. ” “The U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

At a recent $5,280, the digital currency is leagues above its nadir of $3,400 during the crypto crash, and leagues below all-time highs of about $20,000. And within that concentration, as much as 80 percent of bitcoin mining is performed by six mining “pools” – and five of them are in China.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2017

Speaking in front of the LendIt conference in New York yesterday (March 6), Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Murray told those assembled that the oversight body will go forward with plans to offer banking charters to fintech companies.

Planning 40

Planning Banking Concentration Currencies 40

PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2018

Morgan Stanley analysts have estimated that bitcoin miners lose money when the price of the once high-flying digital currency is below $8,600. It makes no economic sense to make something that keeps losing money. The price of bitcoin at the time the Thursday note was released stood at a bit above $8,200.

Concentration 41

Concentration Manufacturing Currencies Economics 41

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. You have a background, undergraduate, your economics degree from Notre Dame, but you were dual-major Spanish language and Literature degree, how useful was that in Latin America?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

Look at it this way: If a small business is on the phone with a bank’s relationship manager trying to transfer a large, specific sum of money across borders to a certain bank account in local currency, the payer may not have full confidence the transaction will be made correctly. Cantor added.

Banking 41

Banking Concentration Treasury Cash Management 41

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. How does this impact global trade and other economic factors?

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Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 122

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

While the universe of companies is diverse, with approximately half of all firms from emerging markets, it is more concentrated in market capitalization, with the US accounting for 40% of global market capitalization at the start of the year.

Valuation 52

Valuation Currencies Numbers Corporate Finance 52

Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In 2023, the lab honed its focus to concentrate on startups between seed and Series A funding stages. The lab concentrates on several technological areas: AI, data science, immersive media, and the Internet of Things. Some fintech innovation labs work to improve economic and social conditions, and some go where no one has gone before.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Even Overstock — among the first, if not the first, to accept bitcoin as a payments currency on its site — reports that a measly 0.25 It can also take days to get that crypto converted into spendable, fiat currency — all while the value of bitcoin swings in the wind. percent of its sales were attributed to that payment method.

Banking 44

Banking Transportation Investments Accounting 44

PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

Ken Rogoff is an esteemed professor of economics at Harvard University. His disdain isn’t because money is germ-laden paper passed from who-knows-who doing who-knows-what with it, but because he says it’s the currency of criminals. It seems that the virtual currency is a nice and easy way for cybercriminals to make a buck.

Currencies 41

Currencies Banking Accounting Budgeting 41

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This interview of Richard Kozul-White of UNCTAD cover a very broad scope of economic issues from the developing country perspective: how unregulated financial markets have hindered emerging countries, how the Global Financial Crisis market failure has been ignored, and how even before Covid, these countries were facing a decade of lost growth.

Economics 100

Economics Concentration Investments Finance 100

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

As the world’s attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

Economics 130

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 130

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 28, 2024

Second, in our zeal to measure risk with numbers, we have lost sight of the reality that the effects of risk are as much on human psyche, as they are on economics. In my experience, much of the risk that we face when valuing companies or analyzing investments is economic uncertainty, impervious to more data and analysis.

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Hurdle Rate Concentration Investments Finance 121

Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

Economics 100

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 100

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So a lot of companies that go public then have a valuable currency they can use for acquisitions. During COVID, rather than just a monetary response, we saw a massive fiscal response, which seemed to have really helped across the entire economic strata, especially the middle class. How did that play into the thinking?

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Investments Banking Entertainment Marketing 59

Global Finance

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This has been reflected in recent local-currency, corporate listed issuance and strong issuance parameters from recent US dollar issuances, both senior and tier 1, predominantly sukuk. The surge in debt issuance has set new benchmarks, both for Qatari sovereign debt and offerings by companies based in the emirate.

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Marketing Treasury Finance Concentration 105

Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The toolbox is open, and the fine-tuning is underway, as China’s policymakers and financial institutions respond to the thorny economic challenges of the post-pandemic era. No doubt the government’s policy push to address the country’s economic challenges has given birth to invention at banks large and small.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Risk Management Manufacturing Banking 52

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 17, 2025

Professor Stephanie Kelton teaches Public Policy and Economics at SUNY Stony Brook. You get a bachelor’s, a BA and a BS in Economics and Business at California Sacramento, then University of Cambridge, master’s in Philosophy and Economics, then a PhD in economics at the New School. I happened to pick that one.

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Budgeting Economics Math Numbers 59

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And economic indicators, like the unemployment rate or the claims data, and you know, we actually did some scenario analysis around that recently, just talking about, Hey, what happens if the employment rate rises versus falls? Safe harbor harbor here, a little apo apocalyptic currency. I mean, I, I haven’t done that much work.

Marketing 65

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 65

CFO News Room

JANUARY 16, 2023

SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentration and linked longitudinal seroprevalence: a spatial analysis of strain mutation, post-COVID-19 vaccination effect, and hospitalization burden forecasting (preprint) medRxiv. Findings: We found strong linear association between wastewater concentration and estimated community prevalence (r=0·916).

Concentration 130

Concentration Economics Currencies Forecasting 130

CFO News Room

JANUARY 10, 2023

Now we’re looking back at data and we can see how concentrated this was in one small portion of the population, and how the fact that people who were being exposed to these were really, really likely to vote for Trump,’ Tucker said. Second, exposure was concentrated among users who strongly identified as Republicans. Stats Watch.

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