September, 2024

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A new ETF uses AI to emulate Warren Buffett's investment style

CNBC: Investing

Intelligent Alpha is in the works to launch an Intelligent Omaha ETF that relies on artificial intelligence to emulate Buffett's investing philosophy.

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In Proposing Move From Delaware To Nevada, This Corporation Cites The Burden Of MFW

JD Supra: Mergers

Earlier this week, The Trade Desk, Inc. filed preliminary proxy materials for a special meeting of stockholders. The purpose of the meeting is to approve the reincorporation of the corporation from the State of Delaware to the State of Nevada by conversion. This particular proxy statement caught my eye because it specifically calls out several Delaware court decisions.

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The Tor Project merges with Tails, a Linux-based portable OS focused on privacy

TechCrunch: M&A

The Tor Project is merging operations with Tails, a portable Linux-based operating system focused on preserving user privacy and anonymity. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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What Warren Buffett's recent moves say – and don’t say – about today’s market

CNBC: Investing

Can the recent Apple and Bank of America sales, along with Berkshire's ballooning cash position, tell us anything about Buffett's current market views?

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Unhealthy Alliance: Hospitals Sharing Senior Leadership Increases Antitrust Risk

JD Supra: Mergers

Collusion among rivals has long been considered the “supreme evil of antitrust.” It is not surprising, therefore, that antitrust scrutiny was applied to one hospital’s decision to employ the Chief Executive Officer of its only competing hospital while the CEO still remained employed by the competitor, without any effort to integrate the hospitals clinically or financially or any effort to implement effective screening measures to protect against the sharing of competitively sensitive.

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Will A.I. Be a Bust? A Wall Street Skeptic Rings the Alarm.

The New York Times: Banking

Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs’s head of stock research, warned that building too much of what the world doesn’t need “typically ends badly.

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Greed, Gluttony and the Crackup of Red Lobster

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

How missed opportunities, a $1.5 billion real estate deal, all-you-can-eat shrimp and the global pandemic sank the country’s largest seafood chain.

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Salesforce acquires data management firm Own for $1.9B in cash

TechCrunch: M&A

Salesforce has acquired Own Company, a New Jersey-based provider of data management and protection solutions, for $1.9 billion in cash. Own is Salesforce’s biggest deal since buying Slack for $27.7 billion in 2021. The company reportedly considered — but ultimately decided against — purchasing data management software firm Informatica earlier this year.

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Bitcoin could soon hit six figures regardless of who wins U.S. election, investors say

CNBC: Investing

Despite the increasingly partisan sentiment in the crypto industry, bitcoin will thrive regardless of who wins the U.S. presidential election in November.

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Top 3 Banking Secrets to Stay Relevant with Gen Z Consumers

Speaker: Brian Muse-McKenney, Chief Revenue Officer & Matt Simester, Cards and Payments Expert

In today’s world of social media, dating apps, and remote work, businesses risk becoming irrelevant (or getting "ghosted") if they fail to meet the evolving needs of Gen Z consumers. Credit cards with flexible payment options, especially for young adults with little-to-no credit history, are a particularly important and valuable solution for this generation.

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FDIC, OCC, and DOJ Update Guidance on Bank Merger Evaluations

JD Supra: Mergers

Last week, each of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) revised how they will review bank mergers. Our Financial Services and Antitrust teams highlight what banks considering mergers should know about the changes.

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Signed, Sealed, DELAY!

H. Friedman Search

I was actually hoping I would not have to write about this trend. I’ve been hoping that it was just an isolated situation, but regrettably, it’s not. Across all channels within our industry in public finance, from bankers to bond counsels, a delay is a common occurrence. I am talking about delay after an offer has been accepted. How Much Of A Delay Are We Talking…?

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Want to End Poverty? Focus on One Thing.

The New York Times: Banking

Electrifying the world could produce the largest development gains since the 1990s.

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Will TikTok Be Banned in January? That Question is Headed to Court

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

TikTok will be in federal court on Monday, aiming to block a new law that will ban the popular video app in the United States early next year.

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Predictions You Can Rely On: How Data Drives Successful Financial Forecasting

Speaker: Robbie Bhathal, Founder & CEO, and Matthew Acalin, Head of Credit Intelligence

In today's volatile financial environment, how confident are you in your company’s financial forecasting? To get the most accurate cash predictions that will lead to long-term financial survival, real-time data is critical. Innovative cash management strategies can lead to better credit opportunities, more sustainable growth, and long-term financial prosperity.

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From InstaDeep to Paystack: Here are Africa’s biggest startup exits and how much they raised

TechCrunch: M&A

As we continue to monitor the growth of Africa's tech ecosystem, it’s essential to highlight and analyze the biggest disclosed acquisitions. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Tesla could have a tough time living up to the hype around its robotaxi event

CNBC: Investing

Even as Tesla's shares rip higher in September, Wall Street remains divided on the stock amid doubt around its long-term potential as a leading automaker.

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Question of the Week: What is the next frontier in AI mergers and acquisitions, and how will it shape the future landscape of the industry?

JD Supra: Mergers

"We’re currently seeing a lot of follow-on investments into AI. For example, sponsors are making incremental investments into portfolio companies or using portco balance sheet cash and/or stock to finance acquisitions of minority investments in or joint venture transactions with AI-focused companies.

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What You Gain With A Niche Recruiter

H. Friedman Search

Niche recruiters are recruiters fully immersed in their particular industry. It’s their responsibility to know everything that is going on within their particular field of expertise. However, niche recruiters can be too broad in scope. What you want is a niche recruiter that specializes in your extremely specific field. For example, there are niche recruiters in sales, yet sales is so broad.

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Enhance Customer Value: Unleash Your Data’s Potential

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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Stocks Rally a Day After Fed’s Big Interest Rate Cut

The New York Times: Banking

The S&P 500 had already been climbing as investors grew more confident that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates by half a percentage point. Thursday’s gain put the index in range of a closing record.

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German bank shares slide, DAX underperforms

Global Banking & Finance

LONDON (Reuters) – German bank shares were among the worst performing European equities on Tuesday, as a selloff in U.S. lenders following downbeat comments from the boss of Goldman Sachs rippled through European markets. Deutsche Bank shares closed down 4.9%.

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Oura has acquired metabolic health startup Veri

TechCrunch: M&A

Blood sugar levels are foundational to the Veri platform. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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This gym stock is a buy because of the breakout popularity of pickleball, says Bank of America

CNBC: Investing

Analyst Alexander Perry said the upscale lifestyle and fitness company has increased its number of pickleball courts by 43% since the first quarter of 2023.

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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Luxury and ESG: Navigating the New EU Legal Landscape in the Fashion and Luxury Goods Industry

JD Supra: Mergers

Due to the increased importance of sustainability, environmental protection and social factors in recent years, the luxury industry has found itself at a crossroads of tradition and transformation. Once characterized primarily by exclusivity, creativity, craftmanship and heritage, the sector is now increasingly influenced by the global push towards a sustainable lifestyle and ethical practices.

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Why The Past Is Pursuing The Present

H. Friedman Search

Bankers and bond counsels want back in! Why? When I start writing most blogs I can understand a trend that I am seeing. I feel a great responsibility to my readers to report these trends as they unfold. The returning of bankers and bond counsels and their desire to pick up opportunities that they left behind (sometimes as long as five years ago) is most interesting, to say the least.

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China Cuts Interest Rates and Mortgage Down Payments

The New York Times: Banking

The country’s central bank also freed commercial banks to lend more money in a package of moves aimed at rekindling growth in a stagnant economy.

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Alaska Airlines Can Merge With Hawaiian Airlines, U.S. Says

The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

The airlines agreed to maintain some routes and meet other conditions to secure the Transportation Department’s approval of their merger.

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Using Data & Analytics for Improving Healthcare Innovation and Outcomes

In the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, delivering data insights to end users or customers can be a significant challenge for product managers, product owners, and application team developers. The complexity of healthcare data, the need for real-time analytics, and the demand for user-friendly interfaces can often seem overwhelming. But with Logi Symphony, these challenges become opportunities.

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Three and Vodafone’s $19B merger hits the skids as UK rules the deal would adversely impact customers and MVNOs

TechCrunch: M&A

The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has delivered its provisional ruling in a longstanding battle to combine two of the country’s major telecommunication operators. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says that Three and Vodafone’s planned $19 billion merger — announced 15 months ago — could lead to higher prices for consumers, diminished service such as smaller […] © 2024 TechCrunch.

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Goldman tells clients to go for gold, likes metal amid geopolitical risk, rate cuts

CNBC: Investing

Gold futures have surged nearly 22% this year, with the precious metal poised to rally even more when the Federal Reserve starts cutting interest rates.

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Dialysis & Nephrology Digest - September 2024

JD Supra: Mergers

Appellate court ruling widens scope of NY fee-splitting law to include earnouts - The decision overturned a lower court ruling relating to the sale of part of a dental practice in 2015. The plaintiff agreed to sell certain assets to another dental practice for $250,000. Under the asset purchase agreement (APA), the defendant was to pay a fixed sum of $50,000, with the remainder of the purchase price parsed out in monthly installments based on: A percentage of the future monthly revenue.

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