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Archive for Category: Market Update

Oct 12, 2020

Payments – Are Cross Border Payments A Benefactor In The Pandemic Affected World?

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Dear Clients and Friends, Marlin & Associates (M&A) is pleased to share our latest reporton m&a values and trends in the Payments Technology sector. As you will see in the report, after a few slow months, m&a activity and values in this sector have come back strong – driven in part by (i) significant shifts to online spending during a never-ending pandemic that has accelerated trends across the B2B, B2C and P2P spaces that were already in place well before the coronavirus upended daily life; (ii) customer demand for ever more speed and transparency for these transactions; (iii) regulations that are driving…

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Oct 8, 2020

Why Is the State of our Union so Complicated? Our October Report on M&A in the FinTech, Data and Analytics Industry

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Dear Clients and Friends: As you will see in the report that follows, the state of m&a market among midsize companies in the financial technology, data and analytics world we serve is strong. It seems as if we always say that. It’s a bit like the President of the US telling assembled congressional leaders each year that “The State of Our Union is Strong” – no matter what is happening with wars, trade, inflation, poverty, unemployment, social unrest, etc. It’s usually true. The State of our Union and our industry often seems so diverse, resilient and strong that we can pass off most…

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Sep 23, 2020

WealthTech – A Flood Of Financing In The WealthTech Industry?

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Dear Clients and Friends;​​​​​Marlin & Associates (M&A) is pleased to share our latest report on the Wealth Management Technology (WealthTech) sector. As you will see, interest and values of many firms across the WealthTech sector have come back strong in the past two months.  Several publicly listed WealthTech firms now have market values that exceed those reached earlier in the year. Most others are not far behind. As you will see, in our report, the industry continues to consolidate – especially around themes such as digitization, Social Trading and facilitating investing in Alternative Investments. Nobody questioned the fact that the current crisis has…

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Sep 9, 2020

COVID, the Economy and m&a: Our September Report on M&A in the FinTech, Data and Analytics Industry

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Dear Clients and Friends: “What has so often excited wonder, is the great rapidity with which countries recover from a state of devastation, the disappearance in a short time, of all traces of mischief done by earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and the ravages of war. An enemy lays waste a country by fire and sword, and destroys or carries away nearly all the moveable wealth existing in it: all the inhabitants are ruined, and yet in a few years after, everything is much as it was before.” ─ John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, 1848 Our September report on m&a values and…

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May 12, 2020

Mortgage Technology Update – Covid-19

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Dear Clients and Friends: Please find here our latest report on the values and m&a trends in the Mortgage Tech industry during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Over the past few months, we have witnessed “business as usual” dissolve in a way that would have once been inconceivable. This year started with tremendous promise, as home sales and mortgage refinancing volume reached record levels. Values of Mortgage Tech firms followed suit. In February, we released our debut report on m&a values and trends in the Mortgage Tech industry, which you can view here. Then the world changed. In March, as COVID-19 spread, governments mandated lockdowns, tens…

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