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Panelists in the exchange consolidation session at Finextra’s Fintech M&A event in London on Tuesday were asked to look ten years into the future and hazard a guess at the likely winners in the gl...
The FT reports that SmartStream's bookbuilding for its IPO is not going quite as well as hoped, and that it probably won't be reaching the £300 million figure it said earlier this month it wanted to ...
Tibco's decision to downgrade its earnings forceasts for the year after experiencing a sudden fall out in contracts at the end of the quarter has spurred some analysts to suggest that that the ongoing...
First Data's acquisition by an affiliate of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) received domestic and US regulatory approval today. In recent weeks, as the US sub-prime mortgage crisis spread to ...
Normally it's not good form to take potshots at the mistakes of fellow media organisations. But today's newsletter from press release aggregator Bob's Guide contains a particularly amusing piece: ...
As discussed in this Finextra story from April CheckFree was facing the prospect of losing Bank of America as a customer of its payment processing business. BoA was, and still is as far as I can tell,...
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has tapped Michael Capellas to take over as CEO of First Data when its $7 billion buy out goes through later this year. Capellas made his name as a corporate turnaround artist...
Reuters and Thomson may sell off some of their overlapping products before the acquisition deal is finalised, according to some reports. Thomson One and Reuters Trader, and First Call and Multex are ...
With market and sector indices, constituent companies come and go. We knew when we formulated the Finextra50 Index that we would no doubt soon be making adjustments due to the amount of M&A going ...
The constituent companies of the Finextra50 index at its launch this week comprise a momentary snapshot of an industry in a rapid state of flux. If we had conducted the same index compiling exercise j...
Nice gossipy piece of unsourced news from Reuters about a reputed spat between Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and JPMorgan over the private equity firm’s proposed $29 billion takeover of First Data. A...
Royalblue’s decision to splash up to £63 million on buy-side OMS vendor LatentZero has been given a firm thumbs down by industry analyst Gartner. Unveiling the deal earlier this week, the London-base...