CFO Talks

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Rowen’s career in finance and leadership has positioned him as an influential figure, serving in executive roles across various sectors, including transportation, investment, and industrial management. Another memorable experience was working with KPMG’s internal audit team in Zimbabwe for three weeks.

CFO 97

CFO Leadership Communication Problem Solving 97

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the trade body for the global airline industry, that trend has intensified , and is expected to continue to do so in the near term. Yet, whether they will be able to contain the economic carnage that will come along with it is another story.

Economics 53

Economics Concentration Transportation Numbers 53

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Uber created an entirely new vocabulary word and category of transportation service called ridesharing and a new way of describing their drivers — gig workers. Uber Eats users concentrate 53.6 Some spend much more in cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco. But that’s just one side of the Uber ecosystem. Fleets As The Fuel.

Transportation 58

Transportation Concentration Leverage Accounting 58

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.

Startups 52

Startups Banking Finance Technology 52

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 Construction 52

PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

Ken Rogoff is an esteemed professor of economics at Harvard University. Its infrastructure is highly concentrated in China – 70 percent of all mining capacity is located there and controlled by four mining companies in China. But, instead of Ryan Seacrest, you have me. Welcome to Payments Reality Check. He’s a pretty smart guy.

Currencies 41

Currencies Banking Accounting Budgeting 41

PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2018

Postmates — in cooperation with Edelman Intelligence — set out to determine what effect the company has had, economically speaking, in the cities in which it operates. There’s a bifurcation between big metropolitan areas, where there is a higher concentration of digitally minded industries and the rest of the world.”.

Economics 41

Economics Concentration Transportation Communication 41

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street. Cambridge U.K.,

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 64

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Construction Concentration 64

PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

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. Comparisons to Uber and Lyft abound: a disruptive way to reimagine transportation.

Banking 44

Banking Transportation Investments Accounting 44

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

You turned out to be the first dual economics financial management major at Quinnipiac. You have a concentrated securities position, right? Freakonomics” is one, you know, how to make economics interesting to the masses. And before we delve into that, let’s jump into your background. What led to the interest in finance?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 64

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Compliance Investments Finance 64

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

And the second was, of course, the Warren Buffett story that came out the same week, where he essentially called people who post buybacks, you know, economically illiterate. I create these concentric circles for people who have time and say, if you have this much time, try these extra things. I mean, strong words for Buffett.

Valuation 119

Valuation Education Finance Numbers 119

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The two most likely to dissent, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, who is close to the unions, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has presidential ambitions, did Biden’s dirty work without any hesitation on Capitol Hill…. politics today. I would bet that speckling of red in Utah is sky country. Stay safe when travelling.

Concentration 130

Concentration Accounting Numbers Healthcare 130

CFO News Room

JANUARY 20, 2023

Koch-backed organizations have been in the fight since March 2020, messaging against business closures and later, school closures and masking in an effort to minimize economic disruption. Throughout the pandemic, business-aligned groups and the political right have been pushing back against public health measures.

Nonprofit 130

Nonprofit Securities Treasury Economics 130