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Elliott has built a stake in Global Payments. How the activist can help the company lift its share price

CNBC: Investing

The firm's team includes analysts from leading tech private equity firms, engineers, operating partners – former technology CEOs and COOs. On April 17, Global Payments announced that it had agreed to acquire Worldpay from Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) and private equity firm GTCR. times EBITDA versus the 6.5-times

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People Moves Monday: Peel Hunt, Redburn Atlantic, RBC Capital Markets, Citi, and more…

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Morrison has been with Redburn Atlantic for almost four years, most recently serving as a director in sales trading.

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Wall Street loves this recent IPO with one analyst calling it the ‘social network trading platform’

CNBC: Investing

" Canaccord Genuity initiates coverage at buy rating, $78 per share price target Canaccord Genuity's target calls for almost 14% upside going forward.

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Liquidnet’s Chris Jackson named new global head of equities

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Chris Jackson has been promoted as Liquidnets new global head of equities, continuing his 10-year tenure with the firm. The move sees London-based Jackson departing from his role as global head of equity strategy and head of equities for EMEA, which he had held since August 2019.

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Lawrence named head of European equities trading at UBS AM

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Stuart Lawrence has been appointed head of European equities trading at UBS Asset Management four and a half years after he joined the firm in June 2019. He was most recently head of UK equity trading at UBS Asset Management, having previously served as a high touch equity sales trader at Kepler Cheuvreux.

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Fireside Friday with… 24 Exchange’s Dmitri Galinov

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How did the plan come together for an around-the-clock equities trading platform? We started our business with foreign exchange when I created the company in 2019. That process began in 2021, and after many dozens of meetings with the regulator, we received approval for an overnight equities trading platform.

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What Wall Street analysts are saying about Berkshire's mixed earnings and rare Kraft Heinz write-down

CNBC: Investing

In 2019, Buffett told CNBC his conglomerate paid too much for Kraft, noting he might have misjudged certain aspects of the company. In 2013, Buffett teamed up with Brazilian private equity company 3G Capital to acquire Heinz. billion in equities in the first six months of 2025. "We overpaid for Kraft."

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