Browsing: M&A
Premium
CFRA Gets Investment From Endicott Capital
01/13/2023
CFRA, an independent research firm which purchased Standard & Poor’s equity research business, received a ‘strategic investment’ from private equity firm Endicott Capital, amount undisclosed. CFRA's ongoing challenge is how ...
Premium
TipRanks to Acquire Financial News Publisher The Fly
01/12/2023
Last week, TipRanks, a Tel Aviv-based Fintech firm that provides analyst rankings and research related tools, agreed to purchase New Jersey-based The Fly, a publisher of real-time online financial news ...
Premium
Exclusive
2022 Review: Research-Related Capital Raises Remained High
01/05/2023
Despite unfavorable market conditions, private equity capital continued to bolster research-related companies in 2022, with over $1.3 billion in new capital raised. ESG data firms were the new darlings, led ...
Premium
Exclusive
2022 Review: Investment Research Related Mergers Continued Apace
01/04/2023
Mergers involving research firms, ESG, alternative data and expert networks eased only slightly in 2022, despite worsening market conditions. We covered 15 mergers in the investment research space during the ...
Premium
Exclusive
U.S. IPO Activity Posts Pathetic Close to 2022
12/29/2022
US IPO activity posted an extremely weak performance in December 2022 as only 1 new deal was priced during the month, 89% below the level of deals priced during the ...
Exclusive
Wall Street Bankers to Receive Lumps of Coal in 2022
12/26/2022
According to Bloomberg, J.P. Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and other investment banks are considering slashing bonuses by up to 30% in 2022. In addition, a number ...
Premium
S&P Buys Green Bond Rater Shades of Green
12/23/2022
S&P’s ratings unit snapped up Oslo-based Shades of Green which is a leading arbiter of ESG debt. The move strengthens S&P’s hold on second party opinions which gauge the environmental ...
Exclusive
Alternative Data M&A is Heating Up: Looking Back and Ahead
12/19/2022
The following guest article was written by Mikheil Shengelia, Research Analyst at Eagle Alpha, an alternative data aggregation platform that also provides supporting advisory services for data buyers and vendors.
New industries are ...
Premium
Sentiment Data Provider Amenity Analytics Acquired by Symphony
12/06/2022
Amenity Analytics, a provider of natural language processing targeting the buy-side, sell-side and insurance sectors, was purchased by Symphony, a leading communications platform used by the buy-side and sell-side. Terms of ...
Premium
SocGen Adds Bernstein Research
11/23/2022
Following the takeover of Exane by arch-rival BNP Paribas, Société Générale will be forming a joint venture with Bernstein Research. In addition to complementing SocGen’s equity derivatives business, Bernstein will ...