PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

“We have been investing in our capabilities to operate as a digital platform for a considerable length of time,” Karl von Rohr, president of Deutsche Bank , said in the release. Deposit Solutions is now Germany’s second-largest FinTech unicorn, CNBC reported, with a valuation exceeding €1 billion ($1.1 in the coming months.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I am not an accountant, but I do rely on accounting statements for the raw data that I use in corporate finance and valuation. If you are a shareholder in a company, i.e., an equity investor, the measure that best reflects the profits the company made on the equity you invested in them is the earnings per share.

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Global Finance

JUNE 10, 2024

After a decade of restructuring, Spanish banks are showing record profits. If banks are more solid today, private lending remains subdued, with limited demand in a climate of low private investment. “We Prospects are bright for investment banking, as well, say some close observers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The company is seeking funding “from a position of strength amid booming demand for its financing tools during the coronavirus pandemic,” a Greensill spokesperson told WSJ, pointing to increased growth in its client base and Greensill-linked investment funds. based rent-to-own business Brighthouse, is in the midst of restructuring.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The second entrepreneur starts business B, again with a $60 million investment up front , and that investment is expected to generate $3 million every year in perpetuity. Even with this very simplistic example, there are useful implications.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

And Shetty’s holding company BRS Ventures, which owns stake in Finablr and NMC, was in conversation with investment bank Houlihan Lokey on options that included debt restructuring. Travelex has also faced its own issues, announcing last week on April 22 that it was seeking a buyer as a strategic idea to meet valuation for shareholders.

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E78 Partners

AUGUST 21, 2023

Macro Investment Market Challenges a Headwind for Private Equity Valuations Private Equity Sponsors are facing their most challenging valuation market since the great recession of 2008-09. Heightened inflation and interest rates will continue to be valuation headwinds.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

Even though we live in an age where user platforms and hyper revenue growth can drive company valuations, that adage remains true. To make comparisons, profits are scaled to common metrics, with revenues and book value of investment being the most common scalar. Returns on Invested Capital (or Equity).

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Additionally, many incumbent firms are restructuring by spinning off their payments divisions into standalone entities to capture higher valuations. Investment scams were particularly damaging, accounting for nearly half of these losses. One reason is that corporates like to cherry-pick assets that enhance their capabilities.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2017

While the source did not confirm any potential investors and the exact valuation, they did say that Flipkart hopes the number reaches the “double digits,” meaning a valuation of $10 billion or more. One of Flipkart’s biggest competitors, India’s eCommerce company Snapdeal , shared that it is “restructuring” by laying off employees.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 29, 2025

Eventually, he becomes CEO of Voya when the parent company spun out the US holdings into a separate entity, really an a, a fairly unique career path and is sort of uniquely situated to look at the world of investing. We learned everything, you know, across from accounting to auditing to, to tax and valuation.

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Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

FP&A vs corporate finance Corporate finance usually concerns a wide range of transactions and activities related to capital investment decisions, for example, mergers and acquisitions, raising capital, financing joint ventures, restructuring initiatives, IPOs.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

The news outlet estimated that at the current funding stage, its valuation could potentially be $220 million to $320 million. The startup also went through an organizational bankruptcy restructuring; assets, employees and customers from one business controlled by Taylor were acquired by another.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

Fitness equipment maker Tempo , whose home workout systems retail for nearly $2,000, has seen its valuation hit $250 million amid a massive surge in interest as the pandemic shut down brick-and-mortar gyms. In many cases, the startups have seen the pandemic not as a crisis, but as a period of major growth and investment.

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CSC Advisors

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

M&A advisory firms are also known by another name: boutique investment banks. This is because they not only assist with transactions, they also help companies restructure, raise capital, and advise them on other financial matters. Company valuation. Company restructuring. Creating resources for marketing.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Even though we live in an age where user platforms and hyper revenue growth can drive company valuations, that adage remains true. To make comparisons, profits are scaled to common metrics, with revenues and book value of investment being the most common scalar.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2017

Growth-oriented funds bank on above-market growth rates and show less concern over a company’s valuation. Analysts said that Chipotle’s price-to-earnings valuation would have to drop to 30 or less before value fund managers would think about investing. The company currently trades at a ratio of 73.9,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Things were a bit more active on the Amazon front, with a big infrastructure investment pushing its market cap back over the $1 trillion line, a new B2B financing partnership with Goldman Sachs potentially in the offing and its expanding stores and services menu. Market Cap Watch: Back to the Trillionaire Club With Logistic Investments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

All of this [bad] news is expected to impact the rather complex investment deal that Uber and a SoftBank-led consortium are trying to close in order to add $7 billion to the $10 billion flow into Uber’s coffers. a share, a price that would decrease Uber’s $60 billion valuation by 30 percent. billion in funding.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Setting the Table As with any valuation, the first step in valuing Airbnb is trying to understand its history and its business model, including how it has navigated the economic consequences of the COVID.

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Future CFO

JULY 9, 2023

Despite dwindling deal numbers, lucrative M&A opportunities continue to be available for those with the appetite and eye for lower valuations. According to EY's latest CEO Outlook study , 96% of CEOs are considering restructuring opportunities, such as divestments, in the next six months. billion, according to Dealogic.

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Cube Software

MAY 11, 2023

This is useful for seeing if a specific investment is a good idea before completing it or—if it's something that's unavoidable and will decrease cash flow—creating contingency plans to acquire financing or decrease costs in other areas. Keep in mind pro forma statements do not usually include one-time costs such as restructuring costs.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

So, last year, valuations were high, interest rates were low. And I said, “Look, you’ve got to look at where we are with valuations, and you have to look at where the 10-year Treasury is at. They were more on the relationship side, client-facing, whereas I was getting my CFA charter and was more on the investment side.

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CFO Strategic Partners

MAY 29, 2025

CFOs must determine whether to absorb these costs, pass them on to customers, share them with suppliers, or restructure supply chains altogether. Organizations that invest in digital finance platforms gain real-time visibility and responsiveness—positioning themselves to pivot quickly and perform more effectively.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Europe accounts for anywhere between a third and a half of their investments. I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank. You know, when you look at something like a Bloomingdale’s, what you have to ask yourself is, Bloomingdale’s is restructuring. 15 businesses with over 90,000 employees.

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Accountancy Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Founded in 2011, VesselsValue provides a market leading online platform for ship valuations, market analysis and insights utilising a dataset of more than 81,500 vessels. Azets has revealed it was instructed by VesselsValue to advise on its sale to Veson Nautical for an undisclosed sum.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 5, 2024

00:06:01 [Speaker Changed] So you end up as head of global credit and senior managing director at Citadel Investment Group, was that right? So the, the first one that I think about is the investing business itself is an operating business. Did they seed you, did they invest you? When are you gonna start investing?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

His name is Robert Koenigsberger, and he has a fascinating career in emerging market, opportunistic and distressed debt investing. If you’re interested in what it’s like investing in emerging market debt, how that part of the investment firm has changed over the decades as the world itself has changed.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I found this to be just a masterclass in everything you need to know about distressed credit investing, private credit, the role of the economy, the fed interest rates, inflation, bottoms up, credit picking, and how to manage a firm and a fund in light of just massive dislocations in your space, as well as the overall economy.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

I found this to be really a fascinating conversation about approaching the world of investing from a different angle. So that was a while back, but nonetheless, I don’t know if it was love at first sight, but we got to get along pretty well, and after a few years working for investment banks, he then joined Goldman Sachs.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

There are a few people who are more knowledgeable about fixed income credit real estate and distressed investing than, than Brian. What was investing always the career plan? You’d see things go from, say the investment grade market to the high yield market. Hi Higgins. Let, let’s jump right into it.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And we’d sort of turn that into a valuation business. MILLER: Well actually I thought, leading up to the great financial crisis, I thought to myself, we’re going to be out of business within a couple of years because nobody wanted an independent valuation. And I’ve never looked at it as an investment vehicle.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Bill Cohan is a fixture on Wall Street for a long time, both as an investment banker at Lazard Freres and eventually Merrill and JPMorgan Chase, as well as an author. RITHOLTZ: So, you ended up becoming an investment banker.

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