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Nov 16, 2015

Will The Big B2B incumbents adapt & disrupt – or be Uberized?

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David Craig, who leads the FinTech business for Thomson Reuters has an interesting post out. You can read it here: http://tinyurl.com/qe7rl5l. Craig is a smart guy and he makes several quite valid points about the opportunity for someone to use technology to disrupt the B2B FinTech industry in ways similar to that of Uber and Airbnb. But, so far I haven’t seen any of the big vendors who are doing so. I’m not sure that any of them yet “get it.” Firms such as Uber and Lyft in the taxi industry, and Airbnb and others in the hotel industry are using technology not only to…

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Oct 28, 2015

ICE Preempts IDC IPO Paying More than 5x Revenue to Acquire Interactive Data

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On the morning of October 26, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bedford, Massachusetts-based Interactive Data Holdings Corporation (“IDC”). According to the company, the transaction was valued at an enterprise value of $5.2bn or about 5.5x LTM revenue and 13.8x LTM EBITDA. Wow! We like IDC. They have a strong franchise in the data business for portfolio managers as well as several other market leading businesses. And there’s no question that this transaction is strategic for ICE. ICE will be able to tap into IDC’s wide array of fixed income data…

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May 15, 2012

How to Put a Price on Anything

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Dear Friends, Last week, a writer for “Inc.” asked what I thought about a recent article in which someone valued the White House at $75 – $80M. I told him that whoever came up with that figure clearly doesn’t understand what drives value. That discussion led to the brief article below on how to value anything (in a competitive market.) Click here to read the article. It was a fun exercise. We thought you might be interested. Kenneth Marlin www.MarlinLLC.com

Dec 8, 2011

Burton-Taylor Report Estimates Mainland China Market Data Spend has Topped USD740 Million, Local Vendors Command 76% Share

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Combined data from Burton-Taylor and Robert Agnew of Marlin & Associates estimates China financial information/analysis demand to have grown at 42.1% CAGR since 2003, domestic vendors increasing relative share OSPREY, Fla., Nov. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a leading information and news industry market research, strategy and business consulting organization, today published a report estimating mainland China financial market data/analysis spend will reach USD745.4 million by the end of 2011.  As a follow-up to their 2009 report, which estimated mainland China spend at USD339.8 million, and quickly became the industry standard on the subject, Burton-Taylor has collaborated…

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