Finance
Time to enter the game: UK’s Playtech acquires Italy’s Snaitech
On April 12, the world’s largest online gaming software supplier announced it had agreed to acquire a 70.6% stake in...
- Finance
Big Brother is Watching You! How Can Alternative Data Help Traders to Beat the Market
Information has always been one of the main sources of alpha on the market. Centuries ago just having first-hand information...
- Finance
The Tech Offering Spree Goes On: Dropbox Goes Public With a Sensational IPO
Founded in 2007, Dropbox is the leading pure-play cloud storage and collaboration platform. Its mission is to “unleash the world’s...
- Finance
Highly Leveraged Corporate America: All Chickens Come Home to Roost
The 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and subsequent Great Recession pushed the US Federal Reserve to deploy two main tools...
- Finance
How Fast is Fast Enough? Advent International to acquire tech components manufacturer Laird for £1.2bn
On March 1, 2018, Advent International announced it will acquire the UK electronic components producer Laird plc for £1.2bn, or...
- Finance
Greek Banks are Back (in THE Game)
2018 is bound to be the point of inflection for the Greek economy. The Bank of Greece reports that GDP...
- Finance
Infrastructure Fund GIP bids €1.98bn for Italian Railway Group Italo-NTV
On the 8th of February 2018, the shareholders of the Italian high-speed train operator Italo-NTV (Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori) (“The Company”)...
- Finance
Bored of Expensive Blue Chips? Try EM Bond Market Instead
The low-interest rate environment which has characterised the markets since the breakout of the financial crisis left fixed-income investors with...
- Finance
Creating Today’s Media Powerhouse: Meredith to Buy U.S. Publisher Time in Koch-Backed Deal
On the November 26, 2017, Meredith Corporation entered into a binding agreement to acquire Time Inc., Meredith’s former rival and...
- Finance
Euro Risk-Free Asset Wanted
The introduction of the common currency started a landmark European integration process. However, the sovereign debt crisis showed all the...