Hints and tips:
...Whether by coincidence or by design, one of the vessels in Gatik’s fleet is called the Buena Vista. The name of its registered owner in the Marshall Islands: Social Club Inc....
...Interest was so scant that one of the investors to buy $1bn worth of the bonds was Elliott Management — which along with Vista Equity Partners is also one of the two private investment groups buying out...
...Was it that you’d just had one hit looking at a big tech company, so you might as well look at the other duopoly partner? Or did you already have reason to believe in the collusion narrative?...
...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....
...In January, Elliott and software buyout firm Vista Equity Partners led the $16.5bn takeover of Citrix, which had been a longtime holding of the firm’s activist hedge fund....
...It has also stuck to selling through intermediaries, even as retail investors have flocked to online brokers and DIY platforms....
...Person to watch Robert Smith, the billionaire founder of Vista Equity Partners....
...Among the executives who signed the letter were Mellody Hobson, the new Starbucks chair; her fellow Ariel Investments executive John Rogers; and Robert F Smith, founder of Vista Equity Partners....
...In doing so it follows in the footsteps of General Atlantic, Vista Equity Partners and Silver Lake, which all invested at a $65bn valuation....
...Hogan Lovells has hired Bryan Paisley as a partner in the law firm’s finance practice in Sydney. He joins from Baker McKenzie....
...“Their ambition, their scale, the sector jumping they are doing — we are only beginning to understand the reach of these organisations in our lives.”...
...And 5G gaming is now opening up a whole new vista....
...as its 3G private equity partner, and its more recent Amazon purchase as not being a “value” investment....
...And it will also receive fees over a number of years as a marketing partner for some of the sponsors....
...From a regulatory standpoint, they are charged with doing due diligence on immediate partners -- namely, credit card issuers such as Paysafe....
...Britain’s big banks are usually the targets of market disrupters, rather than the ones doing the disrupting....
...In doing so, Bridgepoint — which recently sold Pret A Manger to investment firm JAB — joins the likes of Silver Lake and Vista Equity Partners who have sold stakes to fund expansions....
...Spotify, the music streaming service, plans to list existing private shares directly on NYSE as soon as the fourth quarter rather than doing a formal IPO....
...And perhaps most important, he was seen as neutral and the best intermediary between Uber’s board members who had split into pro and anti-Kalanick camps....
...As asset management is a scale business, what we have seen in terms of consolidation in this sector is most likely going to continue....
...The are risks involved in doing deals directly online. Property agents have long been characterised as a necessary evil by many clients....
...Mr Belyaev toiled on the margins of Russian finance until the mid-2000s, when he went into business with his tennis partner Boris Mints....
...The ease with which Arrahmah.com tapped into the $160bn online ad market raises questions about whether advertisers and their intermediaries are properly scrutinising the websites with which they do business...
...As this piece from FT Alphaville’s Kadhim Shubber on Tuesday highlights, the real reason bankers are interested in fintech or blockchain solutions is because the cost of doing business in the post-crisis...
...as claims handling or underwriting....
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