Wed.Oct 25, 2023

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Warning - Corporate Compensation Clawbacks Are Coming!

JD Supra: Mergers

On October 4, 2023, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco announced a new "safe harbor" policy for voluntary self-disclosures in the context of mergers and acquisitions, whereby the Department of Justice will decline to prosecute companies that report criminal misconduct involving recently-acquired businesses. This news made antitrust headlines, and for good reason.

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U.S. dollar gains as risk sentiment sours, Treasury yields rise

Global Banking & Finance

U.S. dollar gains as risk sentiment sours, Treasury yields rise By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. dollar edged higher against a basket of currencies on Wednesday, as investors’ appetite for riskier currencies faded following lacklustre corporate results that raised worries over the economic outlook, and as Treasury yields rose.

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Chancery Provides Additional Analysis of Primedia Claims in MFW Context

JD Supra: Mergers

City of Dearborn Police and Fire Revised Retirement System (Chapter 23) et al. v. Brookfield Asset Management Inc., C.A. No. 2022-0097-KSJM (Del. Ch. June 21, 2023) - In a short letter decision, Chancellor McCormick supplemented an earlier decision with a more fulsome analysis of plaintiffs’ Primedia claim (a direct claim challenging a merger based on a board’s failure to obtain value for material derivative claims), which the Court had earlier decided was subject to dismissal under MFW.

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Exclusive-Shell cuts low-carbon jobs, scales back hydrogen in overhaul by CEO

Global Banking & Finance

Exclusive-Shell cuts low-carbon jobs, scales back hydrogen in overhaul by CEO By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) – Shell will cut at least 15% of the workforce at its low-carbon solutions division and scale back its hydrogen business as part of CEO Wael Sawan’s drive to boost profits, it said on Wednesday.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Fact Sheet on the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation

JD Supra: Mergers

The EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) gives the European Commission (EC) broad powers to control subsidies from non-EU countries, complementing the EU’s longstanding state aid regime that deals with subsidies from EU Member States. Please see full Facts Sheet below for more information.

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Limitations on Good Faith Damages: No Presumption of Loss for Breach of Honest Performance

JD Supra: Mergers

In Bhatnagar v. Cresco Labs Inc., 2023 ONCA 401, the Ontario Court of Appeal elaborated on the Supreme Court’s decision in C.M. Callow Inc. v. Zollinger, 2020 SCC 45 (“Callow”) and clarified that a breach of the contractual duty of honest performance does not create an automatic presumption of loss. The court found that there must be evidence supporting a loss of opportunity to support an award for damages.

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Dollar rises as US business activity ticks up in October

Global Banking & Finance

Dollar rises as US business activity ticks up in October By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) -The dollar rose against a basket of currencies on Tuesday as a slew of fresh economic data highlighted the strength of the U.S. economy relative to the United Kingdom and the European Union. U.S.

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[Video] Hot Topics in International Trade. Braumiller Law Group Partner & Founder Adrienne Braumiller joins Vp of Marketing Bob Brewer for an Update on Forced Labor

JD Supra: Mergers

Braumiller Law Group Partner & Founder Adrienne Braumiller covers an update on Forced Labor. It's about China.sort of, based on some new data.

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'Incredible alpha opportunities' in the year ahead despite headwinds, says Carlyle Group CEO Harvey Schwartz

CNBC: Investing

Wall Street leaders speaking at the annual Riyadh event broadly expressed varying degrees of pessimism and caution for the coming 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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Redefining Payments: Curlec by Razorpay Gains License to Acquire Merchants in Malaysia

Razorpay

We’ve always believed that every touch point for a business, when accepting payments online, needs to be easy to use, efficient, and fast. Earlier this year, having taken this vision beyond India’s borders, we announced our International Payment Gateway, developed for the Malaysian market – Curlec by Razorpay. With the digital payments market in Malaysia projected to soar by an impressive 17.06% between 2023 and 2027, culminating in a market volume of $41.74 billion in 2027, t

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The Challenges Facing Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyers

The New York Times: Banking

They are set to start their defense on Thursday, with the FTX founder planning to testify in his criminal fraud trial. Hurdles include what Mr. Bankman-Fried’s former associates said on the stand.

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Jefferies analyst says Microsoft can take cloud market share away from Amazon

CNBC: Investing

Brent Thill believes Microsoft has the upper hand in taking cloud market share, which should also help the firm's artificial intelligence story.

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Tradeweb and FTSE Russell partner to offer enhanced fixed income pricing and index trading products

The TRADE

Tradeweb Markets and LSEG’s FTSE Russel have entered a strategic partnership to develop enhanced fixed income index pricing and index trading products. The pair aim to offer improved pricing across a wider range of fixed income securities, which FTSE Russell will administer as benchmarks. This will build upon their existing collaboration on benchmark pricing for UK gilt and European government bonds, with the goal of delivering robust, algorithmic and reliable pricing.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Morgan Stanley's stock playbook for this slowing, 'late-cycle' economy

CNBC: Investing

The firm recommended a "barbell" of traditional defensive stocks, some select growth opportunities and late-cycle cyclical names.

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BNY Mellon launches new FX platform to help manage execution and access to price transparency

The TRADE

BNY Mellon has launched a new foreign exchange (FX) platform, meeting client demands to manage execution across their entire portfolio and access improved price transparency. Named Universal FX, the platform supports BNY Mellon clients across all market segments, including investment managers, corporates, hedge funds and wealth managers. BNY Mellon stated that the new platform will also help clients navigate the industry transition to T+1 settlement.

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Citi analysis shows your 60/40 portfolio could have been helped with a little bitcoin

CNBC: Investing

If you held bitcoin in your 60/40 portfolio in the early days of crypto, you might have gotten a boost from it, the firm found.

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CCIE Security Certification Exam Tips for Success

Cisco: M&A

Security is an ever-evolving technology that is necessary in every organization. That’s why Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Security-certified individuals are in high demand.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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This under-the-radar consumer products stock could rally nearly 30%, Goldman Sachs says

CNBC: Investing

This consumer products manufacturer has a successful track record of market disruption and growth across categories, according to Goldman Sachs.

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Connecting Audiences: Fintech Digital’s Human-Centric Digital Marketing Strategy

Global Banking & Finance

In the vast digital landscape, where algorithms and analytics often take precedence, a boutique digital marketing agency stands apart from the rest. Chicago-based Fintech Digital is taking the fintech marketing world by storm with its unique approach to championing a human-centric marketing perspective that goes beyond numbers and clicks.

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Alphabet shares plummet after cloud revenue falls short. What the pros say to do next

CNBC: Investing

Pros on CNBC discussed Alphabet after the company missed on cloud revenue estimates in the third quarter.

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How to Calculate Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) for SaaS Companies w/ Examples

Software Equity Group

While Cost of Goods Sold, or COGS as it’s known in the world of accounting, is a seemingly straightforward principle, it is frequently miscalculated by software company entrepreneurs. COGS is a key metric private equity investors and strategic buyers use to evaluate companies. It can be instrumental in measuring how well a company can scale and how much money is available to run a business.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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Goldman says dividend growth has been resilient and these stocks are the best at returning cash

CNBC: Investing

David Kostin recommends high-dividend stocks over firms engaging in large capex as rates are expected to stay higher for longer.

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American Discovery Capital’s SmartBug Media acquires Globalia

PE Hub

Globalia is a Saint-Lambert, Quebec-based digital agency specializing in inbound marketing, sales automation, digital transformation and e-commerce. The post American Discovery Capital’s SmartBug Media acquires Globalia appeared first on PE Hub.

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How to play Alphabet's stock after its worst slide in more than a year, according to Wall Street

CNBC: Investing

Wall Street weighs in on Alphabet's cloud disappointment and what it means for the Google parent's shares.

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It’s “by mistake” – How I got into Cybersecurity

Cisco: M&A

Welcome to the Cisco Women in Cybersecurity’s blog series , where we highlight the stories of the mentors who have inspired and advocated for the careers of those in our community.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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A bullish options trade on Amazon into earnings as the stock bounces off key support

CNBC: Investing

When we look at a chart of AMZN, we see that it has recently formed a support level around $125 and recently bounced higher off that level.

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Common questions about our M&A research database, answered

Private Equity Info

Learn how our M&A research database can accelerate your deal flow. Find answers to common questions about our powerful tools, data accuracy, and personalized customer service. Schedule a demo today!

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KKR to invest in machining manufacturer Precipart

PE Hub

Precipart was founded in 1950 by the Laubscher family, who will retain a significant minority ownership stake in the company. The post KKR to invest in machining manufacturer Precipart appeared first on PE Hub.