CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Make sure you have the right math and language to explain results driven by direct and indirect marketing spend. As much as possible, CMOs must help their C-suite colleagues understand the math of marketing activities holistically and results throughout the full funnel. Build a tight relationship with your CEO and CFO.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

We take a similar attitude when it comes basic math and science — but when it comes to financial literacy, only 21 states require financial education, Dr. Annamaria Lusardi recently told Karen Webster. But Lusardi said technology is an excellent supplemental tool to layer over financial education — not a replacement for it.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

Augmented reality is where the future is going and they need to adapt their stores to that technology.”. But the data – and the sharp uptick and results for retailers, tell a pretty unmistakable story for retailers who are looking carefully at their data.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I’ve been trying to introduce my mother to various kinds of technology for two decades with almost no effect. And with that piece added, she is using technology she hadn’t in 20 years,” Bresniker told Webster during this week’s Monday Conversation. It’s All Math, All The Way Down. But now, she can shout out ‘hey, Alexa.’

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2025

The AI story, before DeepSeek The AI story has been building for a while, reflecting the convergence of two forces in technology - more computing power, often in smaller and smaller packages, and the accumulation of data, on technology platforms and elsewhere. What is it that makes the DeepSeek story so compelling?

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

. “The main customer benefits are certainty of timing, so you know when the payment is going to arrive and certainty of value,” Ed Metzger, head of innovation, technology and operations at Santander UK, told Reuters. He explained that this technology has the ability to make payments instantaneous.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Analysts believe the San Diego-based tech giant could make the math work, particularly if the deal involved selling off Intel’s manufacturing assets. Qualcomm would likely need to finance an Intel acquisition through a combination of debt and stock.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 31, 2024

We discuss how he began as a math major but didn’t want to go into physics, engineering or academia, so finance was the next logical career option. Prior to joining DoubleLine in 2009, Sherman was a senior vice president at TCW Group Inc. He is host of the podcast The Sherman Show and a CFA charter holder.

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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. How do you handle professional challenges?

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. The Markup ) • The Sounds Of Invisible Worlds : Like the microscope and the telescope did centuries ago, new technologies to capture and analyze sound are leading to startling discoveries about what the eyes cannot see.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning operations. SC: Our biggest hurdle was going from a couple guys working out of a garage with a cool way to solve a math problem to convincing some of the world’s top investors to take a bet on us and our dream.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This sentiment is echoed by AI Now, a research institute, which asserts that “AI is now firmly positioned as a critical strategic technology for the geopolitical and economic ambitions of nation-states.” What makes this AI race particularly compelling is the stark contrast in how the two superpowers approach technological innovation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

According to the survey, three-quarters of procurement executives in the retail space say supply chain technology can offer a competitive edge to their business. It’s about the overall experience,” explained C2FO Managing Director Amanda Mathes in a recent conversation with PYMNTS.

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CFO Talks

JANUARY 29, 2025

My family wanted me to do medicine as i was good at both math’s and science, but finance was where my heart was. We spend 8 hours of our time at work and with the advent of technology work follows us even into our homes. It was then that i new finance was my go-to carrier choice. This is a very tricky one.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Our simple idea was that better technology and better data science could improve access to credit,” Girouard said. Over the long haul banks will dominate consumer lending, and we think our technology combined with the funding base for a bank is the best of both worlds for the banks and the customers,” he said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This week, a new partnership was announced with Zipline technology to make on-demand deliveries of select health and wellness products with the potential to expand. New Math: Walmart+ Doesn’t Equal Amazon Prime.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Data integration between back-office platforms is now an essential component for businesses deciding to adopt a technology. “Integration in the technology space has gone from really hard, and in some cases impossible, to now very possible — but that doesn’t necessarily make it easy,” Love told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

technology into its search engine. ( New York Times ) • We’ve always been distracted : Worried that technology is ‘breaking your brain’? Business Insider ) • Stop treating unemployment as a necessary evil to curb inflation : An economist explains why it’s time to rethink popular assumptions about layoffs. (

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

At a high level, said Benson, conversion can be pictured along three “vectors,” including the actual form factor or technology the consumer has in hand (literally), the payment methods the consumer prefers and the “run time” of the transaction – literally, how long it takes to complete. For those firms whose customer bases stretch beyond U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The automotive industry just had a head-on collision — with technology. 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.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

It also keeps an eye on emerging technologies, which is why it is buying Cylance , which will continue to operate as a separate company inside of BlackBerry. 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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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Built In , a platform connecting professionals with technology companies across the country, has announced it raised $22 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Updata Partners, with participation from existing investors including MATH Venture Partners, which led Built In’s previous two funding rounds.

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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. The idea is that once the industry gets behind it, once you get to scale on the technologies, the cost will come down. The cards must be a bit more than merely durable.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

The artificial intelligence technology is deployed by cybersecurity firms in an effort to keep pace with the evolution of cyberattacks, as machine learning algorithms are able to improve predictability the more it is used. Machine learning is perhaps the hottest buzzword in cybersecurity today.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Indian educational technology firm Byju's has gotten a leg up from a $500 million funding round led by private equity titan Silver Lake , Bloomberg reported. 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.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

So it is investing in its own order and delivery technology, including GPS tracking technology that would be rolled out by the end of the year. The math just doesn’t work for restaurants. This will be an innovation step that will bring even further transparency to the experience of tracking an order,” Allison said last month.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Welcome to the December 2022 issue of the Latest News in Financial #AdvisorTech – where we look at the big news, announcements, and underlying trends and developments that are emerging in the world of technology solutions for financial advisors!

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The fifth annual Breakthrough Prize awards were doled out yesterday to researchers in the fields of fundamental physics, life sciences and math. Hosted at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, the Breakthrough Prize awards celebrate the year’s biggest achievements in the sciences. Yuri Milner, and Jack Ma of Alibaba, among others.

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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. Bonds : Short-term costs for insuring U.S. doomers are focused on the wrong threat.

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But maybe you’re a bit wary of the technology. Note: Cryptocurrency is digital currency secured by a technology called a blockchain that records every transaction made involving the currency. They vary in technology, features, scalability, privacy, and functionality. . Yes, even if you were bad at math in high school.) .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Off the field, however, is a different conversation, as the Vikings just might be leading the league in technology. Last week, the Vikings became the latest pro sports organization to sign with GameOn Technology , a San Francisco-based conversational commerce company that has taken chat to a new level.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

Visa’s EWA partners include technology providers like DailyPay , FlexWage , Instant Financial , PayActiv , and ZayZoon , as well as merchants and payroll companies. Frew noted that access to wages already earned has been a topic of conversation among employers for over a half-decade.

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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. None of us are competing with a technology firm that has 200 engineers and $100 million of venture capital. If they were that good, were you paying them at that level?”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The math comes out to one per week. The growing familiarity with blockchain technology in general will help the case for bitcoin indirectly as cryptocurrencies achieve more awareness in the industry,” said Methe. The average rate of a new bitcoin ATM?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

As retailers, payments providers and consumers prepare for the coming 5G world, there remain concerns about how well that mobile network technology will protect consumer privacy and security. And that’s why some researchers and mobile technology observers are sounding what amounts to preemptive alarm about 5G. 5G Security Holes?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

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. Intel Secures AI Partnerships f or FinServ, Supply Chains.

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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.”. We believe that this is the beginning of the traditional market’s merge with blockchain technology.

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