PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Private-label sales are (and possibly should be) coveted by almost any firm, as they have higher margins, in general, and also enable companies to control at least some aspects of the supply chain, ensuring quality control and perhaps even some customer stickiness. and a Bit of Nationalism. There is no need to buckle under these pressures.

eCommerce 75

eCommerce Concentration Economics Startups 75

PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

Will saving for a rainy day today lead to economic clouds just a bit down the road? recipients of economic aid are being judicious about how they spend the funding being extended by the government. Economic recovery payments were lower, even as personal spending was up $738 billion (or 6 percent). Spending To Cover Expenses.

Economics 78

Economics Concentration Prioritization Retail 78

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When asked in March about what their biggest COVID-19 concerns were, millennials and bridge millennials (a slightly older demographic than Gen Z) cited economic concerns, while Gen Z’s fears were more social in nature. percent of Gen Z respondents worried that they’d lose contact with people, and 49.7 Capturing The Available Conversions .

Sales 53

Sales Concentration Retail eCommerce 53

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. It's critical that everyone from HR and finance to engineering and sales is involved in the innovation process for your business model transition to be effective.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

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

Global Finance

JUNE 14, 2024

Financial institutions have been facing tough challenges between economic uncertainty and an unprecedented technology-powered speed of change, especially since the Spring Bank Run of 2023. This can help institutions identify concentration risk earlier and determine actions for loan diversification.

Leverage 93

Leverage Risk Management Concentration Compliance 93

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. Clients benefit by optimizing their working capital and minimizing expense.”

Treasury 97

Treasury Cash Flow Forecasting Forecasting Cash Management 97

PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

From the research, it was shared that, “Both trade and automation related to economic growth are hallmarks of a vibrant economy. At this time, it appears that the core function of chatbots is to help facilitate various customer service aspects throughout the consumer sales cycle. What’s the effect of chatbots on the retail industry?

Retail 71

Retail Concentration Data Analysis Technology 71

Future CFO

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Declining profitability: For example, are your sales lower or your cost of goods sold higher? Check out our business liquidity calculator to assess how your liquidity could evolve depending on external factors such as a drop in sales, payments delays or one-off losses. Operating margins: Are they becoming thinner?

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Concentration Benchmarking Invoicing 52

Future CFO

AUGUST 23, 2023

Mature consumers are relatively resilient to economic shocks, buy high-quality products that they value, and exert considerable influence on younger consumers’ purchasing decisions. Nevertheless, brand marketeers often ignore them, the firm added.

Concentration 52

Concentration Numbers Economics Investments 52

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Bitcoin’s processing operation is highly concentrated within a handful of miners in China — which is getting more concentrated now, since the price of bitcoin has crashed and fewer players can afford to keep the lights on (literally, since bitcoin processing requires a massive amount of electricity).

Currencies 85

Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Leverage 85

Global Finance

JULY 26, 2024

From our experience with leading consumer goods corporates, B2B2C models unlock profitable growth for all value chain members, improve sales volume and conversion, and generate greater loyalty and client retention.” Latin American firms are also increasingly looking to banking partners for both liquidity provision and treasury services.

Cash Management 52

Cash Management Treasury Foreign Exchange Concentration 52

Future CFO

JANUARY 10, 2024

A look back at 2023 and it becomes clear that persistent challenges were the norm for much of the year – be it in the form of social, geopolitical or economic. Insolvency in Asia The Allianz Research paper, Global Economic Outlook 2023-25 , notes that businesses face declining demand and higher costs while pricing power is fading.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Concentration Economics Sales 52

PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

Net sales were up 4.3 Net sales were up 4.3 Krona: The Swedish currency takes it place among other decliners, such as the Turkish lira and Venezuela’s bolívar , amid economic woes writ large. Diwali may make all the difference. Wholesale Clubs: BJ’s IPO results show the clubs are a sticky and popular business model.

Currencies 40

Currencies Concentration Accounting Leverage 40

Musings on Markets

MAY 5, 2023

After every banking crisis, new rules are put into place to reduce or minimize these risks to the economic system, but in spite of these rules or sometimes because of them, there are new crisis. That pain becomes worse with bonds with default-risk, with Baa (investment grade) corporate bonds losing 27% of their value.

Banking 98

Banking Profit and Loss Securities Investments 98

Global Finance

OCTOBER 11, 2024

in 2022, according to the International Monetary Fund’s July World Economic Outlook 2024. The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s quick response to the banks’ failures stemmed additional contagion and has left businesses with an object lesson in concentration risk.

Banking 111

Banking Foreign Exchange Profit and Loss Finance 111

PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

David Cicilline of Rhode Island, a Democrat who chairs the subcommittee, stated that the desire to boost the new economy had in effect fostered a mindset that let big tech self-regulate with “little oversight,” and that concentration has resulted. Cicilline noted there have not been challenges from antitrust regulators. percent of the U.S.

Concentration 40

Concentration Retail Economics Sales 40

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In the latest Matchmakers installment, David Evans, economist and author of the book “Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms,” interviewed David Baird, CEO of Gigmor. Gigmor helps concentrate the widely dispersed info across an artist’s profile and upload it onto the site, he said.

Concentration 49

Concentration Advertising Economics Sales 49

The Finance Weekly

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Gather Historical Data: Analyze sales trends, past marketing performance , and your teams capabilities to understand whats working and whats not. What to Focus On Economic and Geopolitical Trends: Understand external factors influencing your industry. Are you growing or losing market share? Whats your competitive advantage?

Planning 52

Planning Marketing Auditing Budgeting 52

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In this week’s episode of The Matchmaker Is In series, hosts Karen Webster and David Evans, economist and author of “ Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms ,” were joined by Tom Weaver , CEO of Flypay , to discuss how its recent business model pivot helped its restaurant payments platform to ignite.

Concentration 57

Concentration Numbers Technology Economics 57

Spreadym

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Financial planning is a dynamic process, and it's essential to adapt your plan as your life evolves and as economic conditions change. This metric helps assess the effectiveness of marketing and sales efforts. Analyze revenue by product or service, customer segment, and geography to identify areas of strength and weakness.

Planning 59

Planning Strategic Planning Budgeting Forecasting 59

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

Euromonitor used the same optimism, comparing it to other BRICs and predicting it as the country likely to see the strongest economic growth. In some cases, the plans account for almost 80 percent of daily sales, according to The Wall Street Journal. Barrons described the Indian consumer economy as “an emerging market bright spot.”

Concentration 40

Concentration Advertising Education Planning 40

PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

Remember that a big chunk of buying power is concentrated in this generation’s collective wallet, and that if older generations start to unload housing, those homes would presumably stay on the market unless younger buyers — you know, the ones with new jobs and new families — come in to snap them up. percent.

Concentration 43

Concentration Healthcare Banking eCommerce 43

Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Concurrently, the company concentrated its IT functions in Australia and reducing the number of CIOs to one. In a panel discussion, Shashank Luthra, managing director, Services Sales, ASEAN, Cisco noted that the vendor community understands this well. Shashank Luthra, managing director, Services Sales, ASEAN, Cisco.

Finance 52

Finance Budgeting Concentration Technology 52

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

If you are concerned that you are going to be hit with a sales pitch for that book, far from it! Advice on concentrating your portfolio and having a margin of safety, both value investing nostrums, may work with the former but not with the latter.

Corporate Finance 121

Corporate Finance Valuation Investments Finance 121

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

KRISTEN BITTERLY MICHELL, HEAD OF NORTH AMERICAN INVESTMENTS, CITI GLOBAL WEALTH: It’s really interesting because I’m not someone that you would think would be the typical profile to end up in capital markets or — or sales and trading. Home sales are declining, although rents remain high. BITTERLY MICHELL: Sure.

Investments 119

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 119

The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Get Involved in All Aspects Of Your Business The difference between an average CFO and a great one is that the latter prioritizes becoming involved in corporate issues, attending sales and marketing meetings and visiting clients. Because of that, company owners frequently blame the CFOs for tough economic times and dismiss them as overhead.

CFO 52

CFO Communication Leadership Concentration 52

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

So, my prior broker dealer, it was Fortune 100 company, they have tremendous obviously philosophies in place on how they get their sales force to produce amazing results. He did an immense number of sales, and had cultivated a huge number of relationships. And the economics, they ultimately worked out long term. Matthew: Yeah.

Planning 130

Planning Communication Profit and Loss Education 130

Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Setting the Table As with any valuation, the first step in valuing Airbnb is trying to understand its history and its business model, including how it has navigated the economic consequences of the COVID. It’s relative: The first is that it was not just Airbnb that felt the pain from the economic shut down.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Valuation Numbers Investments 52

PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2016

Last year it was reported that Israeli tech sales and IPOs reached $15 billion, according to data from PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Despite the economic downtowns and issues facing Brazil, the country’s tech industry has emerged unscathed. Toronto has one of the largest concentrations of financial services in the Americas.

Startups 41

Startups Concentration Technology Investments 41

Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The music retail business was decimated, as music retailers like Tower Records shut down, and as artists looking to replace lost revenues from record sales with live performances and merchandising sales, companies like LiveNation stepped in to fill the need.

Entertainment 85

Entertainment Profit and Loss Numbers Marketing 85

PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

percent of its sales were attributed to that payment method. This ignores the fact that the processing rails for this system — bitcoin — is concentrated in a handful of miners in China and the exchanges used to turn bitcoin into the real money that people can spend are routinely hacked.

Banking 44

Banking Transportation Investments Accounting 44

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

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And at that point, I decided what I really wanted to do was be a PhD in economics. Like these companies could announce almost anything other than a sale of the company and nobody and nobody would notice. I just figured if I do well, I would be able to be presented with, with good options. 00:03:03 I got rejected at all of them really.

Investments 117

Investments Marketing Numbers Entertainment 117

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

but largely concentrated in the newly created car-centric suburbs of the post-war era — over the course of three years between 1945 and 1948. New car sales quadrupled between 1945 and 1955, by the end of the 1950s 75 percent of American households owned at least one car. million new homes to be built across the U.S. —

Economics 141

Economics Forecasting Concentration Manufacturing 141

CFO News Room

JANUARY 16, 2023

Since one of ESG’s sales pitches has been that following it’s precepts would insulate companies and investors from the risks emanating from bad corporate behavior, both ESG advocates and critics have looked to its performance in this crisis, to get a measure of its worth.

Investments 130

Investments Economics Concentration Construction 130

CFO News Room

MARCH 28, 2022

Since one of ESG’s sales pitches has been that following it’s precepts would insulate companies and investors from the risks emanating from bad corporate behavior, both ESG advocates and critics have looked to its performance in this crisis, to get a measure of its worth.

Investments 130

Investments Economics Concentration Construction 130

Musings on Markets

MARCH 28, 2022

Since one of ESG's sales pitches has been that following it’s precepts would insulate companies and investors from the risks emanating from bad corporate behavior, both ESG advocates and critics have looked to its performance in this crisis, to get a measure of its worth.

Investments 116

Investments Economics Concentration Construction 116