CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Back before it became apparent that a financial crisis was happening, there was an immense amount of leverage in the banking system over which Bernanke had a responsibility to regulate. The banks had become over-extended, over-leveraged and Fed wasn’t paying attention at the time. That’s just the math.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Just recently, Jiobit closed a $3 million seed funding round with investors including Lior Ron, the cofounder of Otto (now owned by Uber); MATH Venture Partners; and Inflection Equity. Jiobit hopes to change that with its flagship tracker by leveraging wireless technology and machine learning that adapts to a child’s daily behavior.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

The news follows big next-day delivery announcements from both Walmart and Amazon — in a week where both retailers had a lot of news about repositioning themselves in the market and reporting some pretty major changes. retail sales. It is a complicated question — and one greatly dependent on how exactly one lays out the math.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The most prominent of which is Facet Wealth, which has stated a goal of getting advisors up to 250 clients/advisor by leveraging their own proprietary technology to make their advisors maximally productive. banks or retail brokerage firms) who want to cross-sell deeper wealth management/advice relationships to their existing retail customers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

It’s not exactly the sort of inspiring narrative that one might like to hear from a CFO – especially when framed in the context of five straight quarters of disappointing and precipitous declines and the retail giant’s worst performance in eight years. . First, overall, the government reported that retail sales were up – and by a lot.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Are, are the clients primarily retail?

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Walmart Pay comes to market with a few built-in advantages: it leverages the Walmart.com app, which is used by 20M+ people roaming around their stores each month, it works on every sort of smartphone out there, and they control the POS in all of their stores, just like Starbucks does. Next time, guys? SMB Working Capital.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. Because the idea of syndication is that you make a giant purchase and then you sell it off in smaller units to really more of a retail investor. Even retail assets are doing pretty well right now.

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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. That’s amazing leverage. We forget that most people didn’t have the skillset around Excel, et cetera.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And definitely, their retail market participation is significantly lower than you can see in the U.S. 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.

Investments 62

Investments Marketing Numbers Risk Management 62

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We have institutional clients, we have retail clients, we have, you know, pension funds, we have endowments. Or we do, we, we do these regular touch points and that regular communication, whether it’s to the institutional community, to the retail community, to our endowment community, whatever that might be.

Valuation 62

Valuation Investments Economics Marketing 62

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

They may want to expand their business through leveraging a community that the listings market, particularly the NYSE brings to the table. MARTIN: I mean, it was incredibly interesting to watch the new retail interest in certain stocks and why they had picked certain stocks. RITHOLTZ: That’s interesting.

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Marketing Communication Math Technology 120

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. You know, the leverage in the system builds. You know, part of why I read inventory numbers at retailers, you know, you talked about semis earlier, I think you have to think about the whole construct of what’s driving topline revenue for companies. RIEDER: Huge.

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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. KLINSKY: Yeah. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

Investments 117

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 117

PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

Companies with an edge of data — including information, for instance, that can show how consumers behave in certain locations, shops and commerce situations — can provide that edge, which often leads to a sale in this fiercely competitive world of digital retail. It helps me keep my engineers honest,” he joked.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

Companies with an edge of data — including information, for instance, that can show how consumers behave in certain locations, shops and commerce situations — can provide that edge that often leads to a sale in this fiercely competitive world of digital retail. It helps me keep my engineers honest,” he joked.

Advertising 40

Advertising Math Construction Education 40

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. He leveraged existing infrastructure and built on top of it. In concept.

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Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Investments 71

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

By ’08 and ’09, look, there were bankruptcies everywhere in every industry from retail to telecom. And these were real bankruptcies, led by a supply-demand imbalance, too much leverage and not enough demand for the products. MIELLE: Yeah, that kept — RITHOLTZ: Which is crazy. MIELLE: Exactly. RITHOLTZ: It was really fascinating.

Investments 112

Investments Restructuring Profit and Loss Finance 112

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Retail just is nothing at all. hey, there’s no retail, order online. I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. Wait, you’re selling video games in retail shops in malls? And we threw one or two overboard.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2024

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. Don’t write it down, but they surveyed retailers. Like re like retail for example, or autos, trucking companies, you name it. How do you measure GDP two weeks or three weeks after the quarter ends or retail sales eight days after the month ends.

Economics 57

Economics Marketing Forecasting Numbers 57

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 20, 2023

We looked at everything from retail to nursing homes to hospitals to insurance companies to manufacturers. It’s only later, or at least in the book you described it that way, it’s only later that it’s household brands and retailers and names we know. It’s really attracting a lot of retail dollars.

Healthcare 57

Healthcare Finance Marketing Retail 57

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

I’m assuming it’s primarily institutional and not retail. 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. That grocery store, that grocery store anchored retail.

Profit and Loss 57

Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Securities 57

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. You know, I’m just a retail Yahoo finance kind of guy. And I think you will also.

Leverage 113

Leverage Investments Valuation Marketing 113

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

We’re in the business of sitting in between asset owners, financial advisors, institutions, retail and asset managers, right, the BlackRock, State Street, PIMCO’s of the world, and helping them understand each other. There’s definitely demand from retail and there’s plenty of supply in the asset management business side.

Finance 109

Finance Investments Marketing Math 109

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 15, 2024

I don’t, I don’t know what else to say other than there are a few people in the world that understand running a fixed income portfolio on behalf of institutional or retail clients, a as well as Matt Egan does. I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics. Matt Eagan.

Investments 57

Investments Marketing Banking Benchmarking 57

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. Everyone understands what AI is on the retail basis, on the enterprise basis.

Marketing 109

Marketing Banking Treasury Profit and Loss 109

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Amazon in retail… Especially when it’s consumer facing and depends on traffic. Should it fall below $750, Musk could run afoul of Tesla’s own leverage ratio. We’ve learned that online one company dominates in every sphere. So, do people on the left need to be on Twitter? Not everything is equal folks.

Math 130

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