Showing posts with label mergers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mergers. Show all posts

Sunday 22 May 2022

The great un-SPAC-ing

More than 800 SPACs raised capital between May 2020 and December 2021. Underwriting fees were collected; questionable incentives and complexity remained.

SPACs used to be a curious capital-markets sideshow: complex, obscure, hardly novel. A conventional initial public offering underwritten by investment banks was the marker of corporate maturity; merging with a pile of cash and entering the stockmarket by the backdoor was not. This changed when stockmarkets rallied from their covid-induced lows.

Find out more from The Economist HERE.

Thursday 14 January 2021

Banking & Payment Trends that Will Get Hotter in 2021

There are 5 banking and payments trends that are going to be really hot in 2021; that is according to a piece by Safwan Zaheer writing in a blog post in The Financial Brand.

And what are these 5 trends?
  1. Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) will take off.
  2. Venmo will emerge as a new type of payment tender.
  3. “Embedded Banking” is going to grow faster as more institutions offer banking capabilities to non-banks.
  4. Digital currencies and Stablecoins are going to gain major traction.
  5. There are going to be more financial institution mergers in 2021.

Read all the details at The Financial Brand HERE  


Monday 25 May 2015

The Risk of In Market Mergers


From Bank Director –

C.K. Lee of Commerce Street Capital explains both the pros and cons of in-market mergers.

Friday 7 February 2014

Investors Weigh In On Growth

Three leading banking analysts discuss what bank investors consider key in terms of building a strong and profitable business.

Wednesday 20 March 2013

The Anatomy of a Merger of Equals

Deals labelled merger of equals (MOE) have a controversial history. In this video, Frank Cicero of Jefferies & Company, Inc., describes how boards and management teams should evaluate, structure and execute a MOE transaction that benefits the shareholders on both sides.

 
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