PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2016

The New York Times published another story in a string of ones focused on breaking apart the nebulous concept of the manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) or list price that online retailers like Amazon prominently display with strikethroughs to highlight just what a great deal the price they sell at really is.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The math comes out to one per week. This week, he launched a bitcoin gift card integration with certain top retailers through digital wallet iPayYou.io. By adding the ability to use bitcoin to purchase gift cards at major big-box retailers as one of the features of the wallet, iPayYou.io The average rate of a new bitcoin ATM?

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

Jump ahead to spring, and the next big company in the retail space (specifically, the biggest company in eCommerce) to make an AI-related move this year was Amazon. A security application? In fact, the very term “structured data” connotes less of an association with science fiction and more with something like … factual math.

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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. The biggest shift to me is the internal focus at the automakers,” he added. You can’t make software impenetrable into perpetuity.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

banks or retail brokerage firms) who want to cross-sell deeper wealth management/advice relationships to their existing retail customers. When our money is held as physical cash, security – whether in the form of a safe or vault, or the most (physically) protected bank – is vital.

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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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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. when fraud briefly went down – they have bounced back with a vengeance.

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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

MAY 3, 2017

Investors pushed the issue some — UBS Securities’ Steven M. Here’s our own estimates using our long standing Apple Pay adoption tracker stats, and back of the envelope math regarding the number of users and share of retail here. Cook also noted that iPhone’s active installed base grew by “double digits year over year.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Now why, you might ask, would the biggest retailer in the world buy an eCommerce site that was facing a mega cash crunch in December and had to raise a whopping $550M just to keep the lights on? And there are a whole bunch of players that are making it their business to help retailers make an essential part of their POS.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

NP: If you’re participating in a market that’s going up, obviously the more you’re participating, whether as the head of a company that has options for stocks, or as an investor, or as the retail person who is placing just the little bit they have on it, then you’re going to benefit from that proportion of upside because you’re in it.

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MAY 12, 2016

Kount’s latest report “Calculating The 9 Deadly Costs Of Fraud,” does the math – and emphasizes how not managing fraud digs heavily into profits. Although adopted by relatively few retailers, the “buy online, pickup in-store” process already accounts for 25 percent of lost and stolen merchandise for brick-and-mortar shops.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

It’s secure, it’s cheap, it’s faster than a speeding bullet. They provide physical or virtual platforms (like a shopping mall) for multiple groups (like retailers and shoppers) to get together. Put yourselves in the shoes of the Revolution Money team back in 2007, pitching its platform to retailers and consumers.

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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. Which is the idea that passive investors hold every security. It got started in the institutional space. It once was.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

Because then I knew what the wholesale rate was and the retail rate. Import, export, finance, marketing, wholesale, retail, customer service, security, territory, logistics. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. BRYANT: Social Security is 65. “Yes, I want to do the stocking.” RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. I did an internship in the summer at Citibank Securities in fixed income sales and trading. And Greg Davis just does an amazing job. I think you will also. And you’re right.

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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.

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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.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

So the idea being, you know, that we could analyze, dissect companies anywhere from, you know, senior securities, secured down to distressed. So I think there are 4,800 equities, different securities globally. And so whenever we build a portfolio, we think about every security has a tail to it. Was that the basis?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

million securities on the fixed income opaque side of the market, using a lot of great systems, a lot of great mathematical mouth, and also couple hundred humans. 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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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Fewer consumers are carrying cash these days, noted Alantria Harris, senior director of product programs and retail for the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta. Children who participate in Girl Scouts learn life and leadership skills, and receive an education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and business.

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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. Different Methods. 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. Different Methods. It helps me keep my engineers honest,” he joked.

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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. Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. If you’ve got a undifferentiated, crappy retailer and you’re saying it’s going to have $5 of free cash flow in five years, and you’ve got Visa, MasterCard, most of the magnificent seven, and you say that’s $5, they’re not the same. You have so much more certainty.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

I invest less because I’m interested in what widgets a company does, and more in the capital structure and how to position yourself, what the other guy is going to do at the bond level or senior secured level, and how to position yourself to make money. That’s the thrill to me. MIELLE: Exactly. It wasn’t the case before.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2016

From a retail industry perspective, while the wedding of two middle-aged people is as blessed an event as any other, the specifics of such an occasion do not occur at a frequency that would justify a company building its business model around it. The Knot used math to determine its most recent average cost of a wedding in the U.S.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Anything else?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

The remittance business is massive and massively important to the individuals and the countries that receive them, but in the face of other retail payments innovation, they keep a relatively low profile. There is a lot going on right now with President Trump, and he’s in his own way to secure the border. to Mexico each year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

Prime numbers may have been confusing in high school math, but here they are the type of numbers that make retailers smile. Fizzle: Biometric Data: Nothing’s sacred in security, it seems. Those sales came from the 85 million Prime members among the company’s roster this year, as compared to 63 million last year.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

I was hired to cover, I think, securities litigation or insurance regulation, something like truly technical and awful. RITHOLTZ: Retail just is nothing at all. hey, there’s no retail, order online. Wait, you’re selling video games in retail shops in malls? ” And trying to see retail reassert themselves.

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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.

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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. RITHOLTZ: And security is a huge one. RITHOLTZ: Okay. Sort of like a financial think tank? NADIG: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

So when I was at this very fancy private school that I was at as a kid, I did math because it gave me a huge amount of free time to do the things I really cared about. But when I got to Cambridge, you know, the math was sort of serious there. So, you know, I took my math into statistics and things. Am I getting right?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

LINDZON: So first year at ’01, ‘02, you have Apple and they blew out the store model, the retail model, which no one thought. You know, I’m just a retail Yahoo finance kind of guy. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: 2004, 2005. LINDZON: I hate CNBC.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99? I was heading up retail for Tag Heuer for North America, so I was sort of traveling around from market to market, store to store. He gave me his Omega Speedmaster, which is a really nice watch. Here’s why.”

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

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. It had gone from a fairly, fairly heavy retail business to a very institutional business. And that’s how we created the securities division. We now had the securities business.

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