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WYSINWYG (to be pronounced “wisinwig”) means “What You See Is Not What You Get”. We described four WYSINWYG terms in finance in Eight WYSINWYG Terms In Finance – Part 1: Nonprofit Company Winner Takes All Banking the Unbanked Too Big To Fail We will cover four more finance WYSINWYGs in this second part. #5. MARKET … Read more
Let’s see the pitch of a few B2B technology products: ERP prevents stock-outs by triggering stock transfers from one store to another, thereby driving greater revenues. WMS drives greater inventory turns, and thus reduces working capital costs. CEM increases visibility of gifts across the distribution channel, thereby delivering more bang for the trade promotion buck. … Read more
There are many terms that don’t mean what they say. Some are misnomers e.g. Nonprofit Others sound broader than they are e.g Insider Trading Still others are obfuscatory e.g. KYC. I’ve coined the term WYSINWYG to represent such terms. As you might have guessed, WSINWYG (to be pronounced “wisinwig”) stands for “What You See Is … Read more
This blog post is a slightly edited version of my answer to the following Quora question: What is the role of a business analyst in the payments domain? I assume that the question refers to “payments technology” domain and consider the case of a Business Analyst (BA) who works for a tech vendor that provides … Read more
In 10 Best Answers For Peter Thiel Interview Question – Part 1, I gave five answers to the following Peter Thiel interview question: What is the one thing that’s true but nobody believes it when you tell them? In this second part, I’ll give five more. Here goes. #6. Fixed deposit beats inflation Matt Levine … Read more
In the days following the death by car accident of Cyrus Mistry, the scion of Shapoorjee Palonjee construction group and the largest shareholder in Tata Sons, there’s a lot of public discourse in traditional and digital media about overspeeding, seat belt, air bag, highway signage, and the like. Let me cite two examples. ECONOMIC TIMES … Read more
Peter Thiel interview question: What is the one thing that’s true but nobody believes it when you tell them? I have not attended an interview with Peter Thiel nor do I have any intention of doing so. But I do know 10 things that are true but nobody believes me when I tell them. I’ll … Read more
Back in the day, when you wanted to pay Tom, you whipped out your cheque book, wrote Tom’s name in the payee field, and handed over the cheque to Tom. Things were simple. Then banks introduced electronic payments. You no longer paid Tom. You paid Tom’s Account Number and IFSC Code / Sort Code / … Read more
“A basic premise of Web3 is that every product is simultaneously an investment opportunity” – Matt Levine The previous post entitled How Tokenonmics Has Revolutionized Web3 Software was about the revolutionary impact of tokenomics on Web3 software. In this post, we will do a deep dive into the following characteristics of Tokenomics. The genuine Tokenomics … Read more
When I signed up for Netflix more than a year ago, I used my credit card as my payment method. On the tenth of every month, the streamer would charge my credit card on file automatically. Life was good. Then RBI Emandate happened. While you can find all about this new regulation in my blog … Read more