Dear Clients and Friends, Click HERE for the November 2016 Healthcare IT Review. Much has been written about “TrumpCare”- the successor to Obamacare – and what the new administration may or may not do with the ACA and Medicare/Medicaid programs. Rather than speculating about specific provisions, we would like to offer a few suggestions regarding the importance of the emerging industry standards. MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment Systems) aimed chiefly at ambulatory providers and MACRA (Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015), which establishes new ways to pay physicians for caring for Medicare beneficiaries, are both good ideas and we…
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There are more than 50 million Americans without a traditional credit score and 80 million unbanked and under-banked individuals in the United States. These individuals, more often than not, do not have access to traditional credit products. We recently attended the Money2020 conference in Las Vegas, where the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a report encouraging the use of non-traditional information and methods to enable better credit scoring and analysis for this large group. We applaud their efforts. The CFPB launched Project Catalyst in 2012 to promote consumer-friendly innovation. Since its creation, the agency has collaborated with several FinTech…
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Our November 2016 General Market Update found here is our latest update on the m&a values and trends in the dozen+ sectors of the information technology industry that we follow and sometimes lead. What a time in which we live. We’re busy – advising clients and closing deals; the Chicago Cubs became World Series Champions for the first time in 108 years; my Marines celebrated the Corp’s 241st birthday, while fighting in every clime and place they could; Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in literature (how cool!); Leonard Cohen died (he and Dylan have long been among my favorites); and in between, Donald Trump was elected President of the United States and to the further shock of…
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Our November 2016 Fintech Market Report is our latest update on the m&a values and trends in the dozen+ sectors of the financial technology industry that we follow and sometimes lead. Read more here. We’re issuing this market update the day before the election for the US President. It is an interesting time. Recently someone asked me if I am concerned about the impact of this election on fintech m&a. My answer has two parts: First, I’m worried about a lot more than fintech m&a. The next leader of the free world will face daunting challenges. The second element I’m…
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“Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity…” In the mergers and acquisitions world in which we live, there is a longstanding syllogism among some that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. This philosophy is not limited to those in m&a. In “The Tempest” Shakespeare has a character remark that “what’s past is prologue”, and we know many people who subscribe to that theory when evaluating business opportunities. We, however, prefer to rely on Peter Drucker – who once said “strategic planning is the…
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