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...Henry Fernandez When Fernandez engineered the spinout of Morgan Stanley’s financial benchmarking venture with Capital Group, indexing was a sleepy industry and the unit was valued at just $20mn....
...NYCA, a boutique fintech investment firm and US Venture Partners What’s the revenue model? We are a software as a service business. We charge banks a transactional fee....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Anyway, there’s much to enjoy in the paper for policy wonks, technologists or historians, so do have a read if you want a break from wondering whether we’ll have a V-shaped recovery or not....
...Nomura has launched a 51 per cent-owned securities joint venture, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse are in the process of launching their own joint ventures and Goldman has applied to increase its stake....
...There is also the $2.3bn Xerox can expect from the sale of its 25 per cent stake in the Fuji Xerox joint venture....
...You could say the same of a range of index funds that are investing in everything from modish green ventures to marijuana companies....
...When in 1996 Henry Fernandez asked Morgan Stanley’s investment bankers to estimate the value of its modest indexing joint venture with Capital Group, he was told that the division he ran was probably worth...
...Here is a look at Mr Fernandez’s transition team, which is tasked with winning back investor confidence amid fears of state interventionism....
...Real estate and venture capital make a lot of sense for those people that can stand the illiquidity of those investments,” he says....
...Related links: A message from the dear leader to the stakhanovites — FT AlphavilleShared mobility V.1, USSR edition — FT AlphavilleWhat Hertz tells us about the future of shared mobility — FT AlphavilleMore...
...Lyft has hired the IPO adviser Class V, which was founded by Lise Buyer, one of the key architects of Google’s 2004 Dutch auction. But Uber will not be far behind....
...On May 3, 2018, the Company and its subsidiary Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V. entered into the Ninth Amendment (the “Ninth Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement....
...That section comes with the following caveat: ...provided, however, that this... shall not include the proceeds from (V) the Equity Contribution, (W) Refunding Capital Stock (as defined below), (X) Equity...
...It has formed a joint venture with France’s Canal+, the pay-TV arm of its largest shareholder Vivendi, to create content....
...The new venture is a neat echo of that. It is an area that MUFG has yet to exploit....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...John Fernandez Partner and US chief innovation officer, Dentons One of John Fernandez’s central roles at Dentons is as chair of Nextlaw Labs, a venture designed to bring new products and services to market...
...Formed by a partnership between venture capital funds Social Capital and Hedosophia, a “unicorn Spac” comes as US tech listings have dwindled in recent years....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on April 20, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Related links: What Hertz tells us about the future of shared mobility – FT Alphaville Shared mobility V.1, USSR edition – FT Alphaville Do the economics of self-driving taxis actually make sense?...
...RatPac-Dune signed a multi-year co-financing arrangement with Warner Bros in 2013 for up to 75 movies, that have included: Gravity, The Lego Movie, American Sniper, Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, Kong...
...If the venture is to be a cost effective alternative to private car ownership servicing short-term needs as well as longer-term ones, fleets will have to be commoditised....
...should feel very flattered by the attention from Mark [Zuckerberg], Kevin [Systrom] and others over there,” Mr Phelps says, referring to the Facebook and Instagram chief executives. ———————- Facebook v...
...He said online orders since October’s launch would rank it in the top five crowdfunding campaigns on sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, which range between Oculus Rift’s $2.4m and the Pono music player...
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