Archive for: April 15, 2019

Dear Clients and Friends, The capital markets FinTech World has been abuzz over a slew of m&a transactions – real and rumored. It started with Blackrock buying eFront for $1.3 billion. Then came the torrid IPO of Tradeweb Markets (part of Refinitiv – which was spun out of Thomson Reuters last year) and raised $1.1 billion in the second-largest U.S. IPO of the year -behind Lyft. (Normally we limit these reports to transactions during the prior month –but we can’t resist reviewing these more recent events.) The report found here sets out m&a values and trends through March in the six segments of the…

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