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Strategic M&A will drive recovery across APAC

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Executives across Asia Pacific are sending a clear signal that deal making will be integral to their renewal and growth strategies over the course of this year and into 2022 — 77% of respondents expect M&A in their industry to increase in the year ahead, including 42% that say there will a major uptick in transactions. Survey highlights.

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Global M&A demonstrated surprising resilience in 2019

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M&A activity was surprisingly resilient in 2019 though volatile economic activity led many executives to adopt recession footing, said Bain & Company recently. . While the number of 2019 deals ended 2% lower than 2018 levels, final corporate M&A deal value last year reached $3.4

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Today In Payments: ECB Outlines Use Cases For Digital Euro; Goldman To Pay $2.5B For GM’s Credit Card Business

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The purchase furthers Goldman's push into Main Street lending and gives Goldman access to over one million cardholders, who account for roughly $8.5 Walmart Expands Healthcare Services. Why The Pandemic Is a ‘Black Swan’ That Will Spur Payments M&A. Plus, Walmart is partnering with Clover Health for its new health centers.

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Cross-border deals dropped in 2019 as investors looked to domestic markets

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Cross-border deals fell 27% in value in 2019 compared with 2018, according to Allen & Overy 's M&A Insights Q4 2019 report. The fact that the market is still so strong when anxieties are rising around macro-economic issues is proof that many investors are keeping their nerve,” said Richard Browne, global co-head of M&A at A&O.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

STEVEN KLINSKY, FOUNDER, CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, NEW MOUNTAIN CAPITAL: I come from the Detroit area of Michigan as a public school kid, went to University of Michigan and studied both economics and philosophy. KLINSKY: I’m a big fan of both of them and a big fan of the JD/MBA program and involved with both schools still today.

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Transcript: Michael Fisch

Barry Ritholtz

So, so let’s talk a little bit about your, your background ba in economics from Dartmouth. But if I had a plan as to how to do that when I went to college, it was learn as much as I could, as fast as I could and get a ba and then become an accountant and a lawyer. They run over $27 billion in, in assets. You get a Stanford MBA.

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The Why Behind So Many Healthcare Payment Buys

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Healthcare spending has grown from $75 billion in 1970, as measured by Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of National Health Expenditure Data , to as much as $3.5 Spending has been growing at double-digit percentages through the past few years, far outpacing economic growth. All told, $3.5 trillion is a pretty big pie to divvy up.