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PodChats for FutureCFO: Under the cover of insurance

Future CFO

In Q1 2021, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) activity in APAC-ex Japan was up by 55%, the highest level since 2015. PwC ’s M&A 2020 Review and 2021 Outlook , reported a similar observation in China with M&A activities up 30% to US$733.8 The need for M&A insurance.

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China outbound direct investment and overseas M&As dropped in 1H

Future CFO

China's outbound investment continued to decline amid the coronavirus pandemic, said EY recently. The country’s overall outbound direct investment (ODI) of US$54.9 year-on-year in the first six months of the year, according to EY’s Overiew of China Outbound Investment in H1 2020. billion dropped 4.4% YOY, the report states.

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Transcript: Matt Levine

Barry Ritholtz

He brings an unusual background as both an m and a attorney and a derivative specialist at two of the best firms in the world for those spaces. Matt Levine writes The Money Stuff Daily newsletter for Bloomberg. Matt has become this fascinating character in the world of Wall Street research and analysis and commentary. I, I won a prize for.

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QIWI Buys Plati Potom For Undisclosed Sum

PYMNTS

Plati Potom develops post-payment solutions for eCommerce and offline retailers, as well as data analysis and credit risk management tools. For QIWI, this transaction is another step in implementing its M&A strategy of investing in promising teams and technologies in the FinTech space.

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The Great Credit Card Program Outsourcing Debate

PYMNTS

The credit cycle will turn, and you’ll have a generation of credit risk managers who’ve not been through a recession yet. Not only that, but these are indeed the days for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the world of payments, and that trend looks likely to hold into the 2020s.

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Four Techniques Companies Use To Advance In Today’s New Economic Environment

The Finance Weekly

Earlier this year, Oracle identified four repeating techniques that the most ambitious and inventive organizations have used to obtain a competitive advantage and achieve significant development: business model innovation; mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, accelerate the financial close, and developing a risk-aware culture.

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Transcript: David Snyderman, Magnetar Capital

Barry Ritholtz

David Snyderman has put together an incredible career in fixed income, alternative credit, and really just an amazing way of looking at risk and trade structure and how to figure out probabilistic potential outcomes rather than playing the usual forecasting and macro tourist game. I’m looking forward to our conversation.