Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 31, 2023

The platform had punched above its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivaled ability to both distribute real-time information and make expertise available. Bloomberg ) • The Kremlin Has Entered the Chat : Russian antiwar activists placed their faith in Telegram, a supposedly secure messaging app.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Self-driving cars, voice assistants, digital personal stylists, logistics, digital security — there is an application for AI and “smart computers” around almost every corner these days. It’s All Math, All The Way Down. At conferences, when I tell people that AI is all math, half the room turns pale,” he said, jokingly.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

These advancements have thrust AI into the heart of national security and geopolitical discussions. Yet, this lead isn’t necessarily secure. Arcesati notes, “The US has historically excelled at attracting top STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] talent from abroad, while China has struggled to do so.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

The math shakes out thus: Each token is equivalent to one share in a particular company and the holder has the right to receive dividends, even though, as Bloomberg noted, “the companies themselves are not involved.”. This is going to open a whole new world of trading securities old and new alike.”. The mechanics?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. So you come out of Villanova, you end up at first Boston in, in 1987 in the Special Situations Fund and Distressed Securities Group. And so we have a number of business lines.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

Nathoo and other Outschool executives have extensive technology backgrounds, bringing a decidedly tech-oriented approach to online education, with an emphasis on secure and communication-rich video interfaces and outside-the-box course offerings. We’re exploring bundles by topic, so math for age 8, [for example]. …

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

But as markets saw their prices fall, bitcoin’s numbers went up. In Dash’s early development, it incorporated the knowledge of payments industry experts , allowing for near-instant transfers, along with comparable anonymity and security features. International markets opened Wednesday (Nov. Way up, way fast.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: DPL Partners launches a new advisor-matching solution to solve for the inbound demand of consumers increasingly seeking out a new crop of no-commission annuity products.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

Every year, Bhalla said, the credit card industry pushes about 6 billion plastic cards into the environment — a big-sounding number, though only about.015 They have to be secure and live up to the technological requirements of modern cards, which are no longer simple plastic rectangles. 015 percent of the world’s total plastic use.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

How firms can best leverage their internal data to improve the number of client referrals they receive. We also have a number of articles on retirement planning: While weak stock and bond market performance has challenged advisors and their clients this year, these trends have likely increased the ‘safe’ withdrawal rate for new retirees.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Just the math of an advisory firm only goes so far at the end of the day.” I could do the rough math on his firm. just to make the math easy. And security selection, asset allocation, those things are not worth 1% anymore. If they were that good, were you paying them at that level?” If you charge 1.1

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

In other words, some of their identity attributes can help them attain housing, a job or credit – but that identity might not be very good: That is, it might be bad data, inaccurate data or data filled with bad math. But he said that version of biometrics has suffered a number of limitations, particularly around making the technology useful.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Now, they are investing in algorithm companies, math scientists, analytics and things that we would typically only have associated with leading tech companies,” McCammon pointed out. A growing number of customers have more digitally focused expectations when it comes to vehicles. You can’t make software impenetrable into perpetuity.

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The CFO College

JUNE 3, 2021

Yes, automations can crunch numbers, but there is so much more to providing accounting services than calculations. Your potential clients (and current clients) may not know it yet, but this security, stress-free cash flow, and financial guidance is what they’re looking for. All you have to do is prove it to them.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

Data from the IT-Security Institute found 127.5 million malware samples last year, and while there is evidence that number may decline for 2017, researchers warned that these cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated. “We In the first quarter of 2017, it reduced to every 4.2 You don’t have limitations like this.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

The movement toward financial inclusion, and toward a consumer experience that is seamless and intuitive and secure, is one that brings companies to share process and perhaps even prosperity. So take all the security, administrative and efficiency problems that come with being cash only — but writ large. Connectivity and Collaboration.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2018

The math behind his claim suggests that finding someone’s honest-to-goodness soulmate is a once in every 10,000 lifetimes kind of thing. When users create their Facebook profiles, they can declare any number of relationship status options : single, married, engaged, divorced, in a relationship, “it’s complicated” and many more.

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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. But it can’t be a regular brokerage account, because you’re not securities licensed on that side. Stacey: Right. Stacey: Right. Is it lower?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

(emphasis added) The red flags were there for anyone who could put their greed aside and simply focus on the math. It was obvious to a small number of analysts in this space that this was not viable. The post 50% Risk-free Annual Returns appeared first on The Big Picture.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2017

By The Numbers. Investors pushed the issue some — UBS Securities’ Steven M. The iPhone numbers are the critical figures for Apple, since the product still drives over 60 percent of Apple’s total revenue and, as one analyst noted, “may not be the rocket ship” it once was. So what to watch? the street was looking for.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In this post, we’ll walk you step-by-step through how to think about this, and use our free headcount planning template to run the numbers for a fictional company, NoMoreOffice Inc. Let’s look closer at the headcount math. How do you weigh and plan for the costs of such a change? Let’s start by laying out the base case. Current staff.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Number one is just the fact that we have multiple fee structures. So, that’s number one. So, obviously, those are kind of round numbers that they just input. All right, those are very good numbers. Now, that number is really hard to quantify for a couple of reasons. If I had to guess, those are rough numbers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that uses complicated math formulas to communicate. Amazon not only coined the term one-click checkout , but filed a patent for it in 1997 and secured it in 1999. Amazon’s even one of a small number of retailers tapped by the U.S.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

But no sooner did I start helping people in this layoff situation, I realized, number one, you gotta have empathy. I’ve been to well over 600, almost 700…I’m loose with my numbers here, but over 700 companies in the last 20 years, if not more. You’ve gotta have a deep empathy. Michael: Yeah. John: Yeah.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2016

Many estimate that today, that number is now somewhere north of $3 billion. . And as serious as that sounds — Southeast Asian -o rganized crime dedicating itself to stealing your product at all costs is actually quite bad — that isn’t even the biggest security problem the SAT has right now. The Question Mark Hack.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I talked to Lenore Blum , she was one of the first professors of math at Berkeley, and she was talking about how difficult it was and how eventually her contract was not renewed, how she was almost kicked out of her next university, before she went on to a great career and success. And actually, I was reading a number of studies.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Take, for example, how the Fed views statistics, such as employment numbers, when it’s thinking about inflation or raising rates so quickly, which is really constraining to people on an actual budget facing other inflationary pressures, and, by the way, not actually doing anything about inflation. So those numbers are disparate.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And so, I started then providing educational meetings on social security, and Medicare, and other topics, state planning. If I helped somebody make some social security and Medicare decisions, then they were asking me if they could roll money over and raising their hand. Who comes to a conversation about social security and Medicare?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” Everyone starts doing the math of what their typical clients pay multiply by 300 clients was like, “This is mind-blowing profitability, effectiveness of the firm. ” Or are you a little bit closer to me thinking that is just a ridonkulous number of people for my brain to keep track of? Carl: Well, yeah. Michael: Yes.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2017

As it turns out, fraudsters – upon encountering a more sophisticated lock on the commerce “front doors” that are retail POS terminals – did not decide to give up their lives of digital crime in favor of becoming math teachers in Belarus. They just moved online, and started looking for easy-to-open windows.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In this post, we’ll walk you step-by-step through how to think about this, and use our free headcount planning template to run the numbers for a fictional company, NoMoreOffice Inc. Let’s look closer at the headcount math. How do you weigh and plan for the costs of such a change? Let’s start by laying out the base case. Current staff.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I did an internship in the summer at Citibank Securities in fixed income sales and trading. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. And you’re right.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2016

To put into context how important cross-border has become in commerce opportunities, there’s one key number that stuck out from the findings of the Index — and that’s 57 percent. On top of that, merchants have to think about how they are going to push their marketing strategies globally. The results?

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

And so the thing we were doing was sort of solving like often securities law or tax or accounting problems for people with like derivatives. So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? Everything is securities fraud.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Consumers always have their debit card handy and and can provide that number to a sender – knowing that if something goes wrong they are protected. Senders don’t have to ask receivers for the ABA and routing number of the bank account they’d like the money deposited to either – and then when the 99.9

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JUNE 14, 2019

While Amazon is fairly tight-lipped about specific numbers, eMarketer has cut its estimate of Amazon’s current online commerce market share in the U.S. It is a complicated question — and one greatly dependent on how exactly one lays out the math. New To The Market: A Secure Credit Card And A Sneak Peak Theatrical Release.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

So, that’s the number one thing that I learned because when I really just lived full time in that box, I wasn’t understanding how much other life was happening around me. I felt like I would just be a number. He got a lot of phone numbers. My numbers were terrible. He said, “Hey, your numbers suck.

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