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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Regional Winners

Global Finance

Advisers enjoy an uptick in M&As and IPOs despite geopolitical uncertainty; whether 2025 maintains the energy remains to be seen. The global mergers and acquistions (M&A) market might not have fulfilled every dealmakers fantasy of a roaring comeback in 2024. billion acquisition of Kellanova.

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Why Financial Literacy Matters for Every Business Leader

CFO Strategic Partners

5 Reasons to Prioritize Financial Literacy Poor financial literacy negatively impacts overall business performance, financial decision-making, fundraising, M&A, and much more. EBITDA measures operational earnings (not capital investments), and it is often a better profitability benchmark than net income.

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Instant Satisfaction

Global Finance

Bank partnerships proliferate as the quest to deliver real-time payments intensifies. But with added speed comes added risk. Why settle for slow? When it comes to processing payments, it’s better for a bank to be “always on,” says Debopama Sen, Citi Services’ head of Payments in the Treasury and Trade Solutions business.

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Types of Financial Models for Greater Business Development

Spreadym

Merger and acquisition (M&A) models: M&A models are utilized in evaluating the financial implications of a merger, acquisition, or other corporate transactions. Financial models can take different forms depending on their purpose and complexity.

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One City Plans To Run Entirely On Blockchain

PYMNTS

That data includes company names, share counts and corporate activity like mergers and acquisitions (M&A), reports said. This week, news from Citigroup, UPS and Vanguard signal interest in using the distributed ledger technology in the back office. The company is currently examining other use cases for the platform.

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Transcript: John Montgomery, Bridgeway Capital Management

Barry Ritholtz

So I’m a happy camper. Where you have a, you know, a paycheck to go back to business school full time, which I did and thought while I’m here I’ll take a few investing courses and see if I can use those to earn back the opportunity cost of going to business school for two years. What was the career plan?

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Transcript: Steve Laipply, Global Co-Head of Bond ETFs at BlackRock

The Big Picture

Steve Laipply : So I had a good friend who said, Hey, I’m taking finance. Yet another extra special guest, Steve Lightly is global co-head of Bond ETFs and investment giant BlackRock. He helps to oversee over a trillion dollars in bond ETFs. I thought this conversation was really fascinating. Steve Laipply : Thanks for having me, Barry.