Generation CFO

JANUARY 28, 2022

However, when he didn’t secure a senior contract at Bradford City, he left that path behind and went on to study maths at University. At school James was ultimately a shy mathematician who also happened to be quite good at football. Consequently, his original career ambition was in professional football.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

KCP Group ). • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life : Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math. ( Here are some of the most interesting things I found. ( The Atlantic ). •

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2016

It’s simple math.”. “We are here for good, referring to the building of a long-term sustainable business but one which also ensures we leave our users better off today than we found them yesterday.

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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. In the 2010s, the true risk-free rate of returns – 10-Year Treasuries – was yielding ~2.5%, so how could anything remotely risk-free be yielding 20 times that amount?

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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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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 11, 2023

My end-of-week morning train WFH reads: • Seth Klarman on What Makes a Value Investor and Committing ‘Sacrilege’ in New Edition of ‘Security Analysis.’ Bloomberg ) • From Pepperoni Math to Nepo Babies, Summer Is for Interns : Your first experience at work is not often forgotten.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

However, my commerce teacher noticed my aptitude for math and saw potential in me for a different path. My interest in finance began unexpectedly in high school. After finishing primary school, I initially chose needlework in my first year of high school.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

Box-of-the-month services constantly struggle to secure their payment processes and remain a step ahead of bad actors. KiwiCo , a monthly science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subscription box for children, is improving its security practices by partnering with third-party providers.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. Washington Post ) • Amid a Wave of Antisemitic Hate Crimes, a New York Unit Offers a Model of Resistance : As the nation faces mounting extremism, a veteran observer of antisemitic violence follows a security team that combats threats against Jewish targets.

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VCFO

AUGUST 11, 2022

Renewable energy by nature demands different talent pools with more advanced technical and math skills to help guide the initiatives. Securing the talent needed to meet energy demands will require oil and gas leaders to think and act in new ways.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 4, 2024

And the way math works, you end up with a stock that goes up a bunch. So if you contribute SPY, that’s fine, because it owns the underlying securities. We’ve done the math on some of these high-yield portfolios and taxable accounts. And that’s the broad market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Baidu’s Baidu Cloud solution will integrate Intel’s Xeon Scalable processors, as well as Intel’s Math Kernel Library-Deep Neural Network technologies, to develop financial technologies for banks in China.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Securing endpoints and the data that flows between them is absolutely critical in today’s hyperconnected world. By adding Cylance’s technology to our arsenal of cybersecurity solutions, we will help enterprises intelligently connect, protect and build secure endpoints that users can trust.”.

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

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. To end this week’s Bitcoin Tracker, here are some recent, insightful words of warning from security pioneer John McAfee.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

This trend has also shone a spotlight on the importance of data security for organizations, he added, a concern that is likely to increase as the enterprise continues to address data integration challenges. One is what he described as “math phobia.”

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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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Byju's works to simplify math and science for kids through games and videos, according to Bloomberg, catering to students between kindergarten and 12th grade. Byju's valuation is now at about $10.8 The push comes from the current trend in India for parents to seek online alternatives to education due to the pandemic. million paid subscribers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2017

Sometimes, they go so completely pear-shaped that she says they become WMDs: Weapons of Math Destruction. What is a Weapon of Math Destruction? An algorithm is a model coded with math, and models are built using data with outcomes that are defined by conditions for success. And that, author and Harvard Ph.D.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 31, 2023

Bloomberg ) • The Kremlin Has Entered the Chat : Russian antiwar activists placed their faith in Telegram, a supposedly secure messaging app. Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide At the heart of the country’s economic and social crisis is a broken housing market, which has amplified social divisions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

Data from the IT-Security Institute found 127.5 Here’s where Caspi said deep learning improves upon some of these challenges: The technology allows algorithms to determine themselves what they should be looking for, meaning deep learning can be more agile as more and different malware comes onto the scene to threaten corporate security.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

They have to be secure and live up to the technological requirements of modern cards, which are no longer simple plastic rectangles. Working with the three-largest card manufacturers in the world, we hope to be able to change that math,” he explained. The cards must be a bit more than merely durable.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The math comes out to one per week. With the growth of iPayYou service usage and the addition of complementary bitcoin-backed services over the next five years, the drive toward ubiquity, ease of use and perceptions of security should reflect a steep positive curve of acceptance and growth rate from where it is today.”.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Being Lulled into a False Sense of Security Boards of successful companies that haven’t experienced painful setbacks with CEO succession are more likely to be lulled into a false sense of security. The basic math of CEO succession is as simple as it is unforgiving. Timing is everything.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 15, 2023

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Ken Griffin’s Hand-Picked Math Prodigy Runs Market-Making Empire : Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao left for college at age 14, caught Griffin’s eye early in his career and built systems now mopping up market share.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 23, 2023

1 Instead of being financially secure and the strongest country economically by far, we have created an unforced error that weakens us over the long term. But that doesn’t mean we should not have taken advantage of the lowest interest rates in modern history to refinance the United States debt.1

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Intel Secures AI Partnerships f or FinServ, Supply Chains. Baidu’s cloud solution will integrate Intel’s Xeon Scalable processors, as well as Intel’s Math Kernel Library for Deep Neural Network technologies, to develop financial technologies for banks in China.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Bitcoin uses math — and math equations that anyone can solve and see — to provide this cash-like feature. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number. In May of 2016, the FBI reported that ransomware would top $1 billion that year — they estimated $1.6

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

That’s according to Kaspersky Lab security researchers, who, according to news from 9To5Google , discovered the loopholes on today’s popular dating apps. Although it would require the target to stay in one place, the math can be done easily, thanks to the services themselves.

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Note: Cryptocurrency is digital currency secured by a technology called a blockchain that records every transaction made involving the currency. Yes, even if you were bad at math in high school.) . So it’s time to get over your fears and pay attention, before you’re left behind. .

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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

AUGUST 12, 2019

The latest Subscription Commerce Tracker explores how subscription-based businesses are adapting to an ever-changing market, and how they keep their payments experience secure and how new models are emerging to stay competitive. What Security Means For Subscriptions.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As ultimately, very few human beings can effectively do compound math in their head, to figure out the cumulative impact of years or decades of a change in savings, investing, or other financial behaviors, on their long-term wealth. It’s the physical security protections that ensure the money cannot be stolen by thieves.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

There wasn’t a lot of math or analysis to see if it was the right decision, it just … aligned with [the] lifestyle design that I was going for.”. Keeping The Meat Secure. “What I wanted to do was build a monthly subscription, because monthly subscription lifestyle businesses are great businesses to be in.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

That’s both a tremendous opportunity — in terms of providing stronger security, better customer experiences, more customized commerce journeys and, on the whole, better outcomes for both merchants and customers. We can now rethink and reevaluate things with math that we’ve never been able to.”.

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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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