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Archive for Author: Ken Marlin

Nov 9, 2016

Fintech after the election: Our November 2016 Fintech Market Update

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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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Nov 1, 2016

Zcash – friend or foe?

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ZCash is a new virtual currency that the NYTimes wrote about, here, yesterday. Like Bitcoin, Litecoin, Peercoin and most others, it will facilitate fast, low cost anonymous electronic transfers of money. But unlike most others there is no public ledger that can be used to trace transactions – ZCash is designed to be confirmable as authentic but not traceable. The backers would have us believe this is all about privacy concerns; I have a bridge to sell to anyone who honestly believes that the bulk of users will be law-abiding citizens. Regardless of intent, ZCash will mostly be used by…

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Oct 28, 2016

It’s all hot – Infotech M&A and the US Presidential election. Our October 2016 M&A Market Update.

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Our October 2016 Market Report 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. Read more here. We’re busy. We helped a client close one deal last week and have several others looking close. At the same time, we are less than two weeks away from the US Presidential election –and that takes up my attention too. Anyone who believes the results of this election are pre-ordained should ask the British about Brexit or the Colombians about their recent referendum on peace. In both…

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Sep 22, 2016

Can the good times continue to roll? Our September 2016 Market Update

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Our September 2016 Market Report on M&A values and trends is our latest report on the dozen+ sectors of the information technology industry that we follow and sometimes lead. So far it’s all looking pretty good. Read more in our September Market Update, here. The question is – can it continue in the face of business news that is not always pretty? For example, last week alone Wells Fargo was slammed, fined and is under investigation for opening sham accounts in the names of real customers; the US Department of Justice suggested that Deutsche Bank pay $14 billion related to…

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