Audit Board

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

If your company accepts credit cards or debit cards as payment for goods or services, you need to be compliant with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). Nilson reported that payment card fraud cost a collective $32 billion internationally in 2021. What Does it Mean to Be PCI Compliant?

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Musings on Markets

JULY 1, 2022

To put risk capital in perspective, it is best to start with a definition of risk that is comprehensive and all-inclusive, and that is to think of risk as a combination of danger (downside) and opportunity (upside) and to consider how investments vary in terms of exposure to both. Risk Capital: What is it?

Marketability 88

Marketability Risk Premium Start-ups Equity 88

Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

After years of rumors of an imminent IPO, Instacart has finally filed for a public offering of it’s shares, aspiring to raise about $600 million from markets, at a pricing of about $9-$10 billion for its equity. If home delivery is chosen as the option, a driver (who, in many cases, is also the shopper) delivers the groceries to the customer's home.

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Start-ups Marketability Technology Equity 102

Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 24, 2023

If the public doesn’t think the system is fair, at a minimum, they are not going to invest their hard-earned money. I’d like to start by returning to a theme that I’ve touched on before, and that is how public trust in our institutions is faltering. [1] 1] No sector is immune from this trend. This decline in trust is bad for everyone.

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Compliance Accounting Firms Start-ups Marketability 40

Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis.

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Marketability Risk Premium Start-ups Treasury 95

Reynolds Holding

MARCH 30, 2022

5] And the SEC’s Division of Investment Management collectively oversees the regulation of more than 110 trillion dollars. [6] 7] To paraphrase the historian Francis Fukuyama, the investment company – or at least the collective investment vehicle – might represent the end of finance. [8] Good morning. And its exemptions.

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Banking Marketability Finance Start-ups 45

Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

An acolyte of Milton Friedman and other conservative scholars, Ramaswamy insists that the only purpose of business is money-making and that other corporate activity is conceptually ultra vires and wasteful. Last December, Subaru boasted in TV ads of having donated over $250 million to charity in the last few years. In his new book, “Woke Inc.:

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