It is vitally important that all businesses, regardless of industry, fully understand and are compliant with regulations in their sector. This is especially true when it comes to the global payments ecosystem, which is defined by having a deep, complex regulatory framework. To overlook even just one minor element can really be the difference between success or failure.
Rich Grover joined the Hazlewoods Corporate Finance team nearly five years ago. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte in Bristol and spent three years auditing privately owned and listed businesses before moving into a more commercial advisory role. He now helps small and medium-sized business owners sell their companies, as well as advising on acquisition targets, due diligence and refinancing.
If you know anything about Bitcoin, there’s a good chance you’ve also heard about its underlying technology: Blockchain. Blockchain is the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, enabling peer-to-peer digital cash systems where users are in complete control of their account balances and transactions.
2020 was a monumental, record-breaking year for IPOs, with 480 IPOs being listed on the US stock market. Six months into 2021, this record has already been flattened – as of 20th May, 481 IPOs have listed on the US stock market, including the likes of Deliveroo, Bumble, DigitalOcean and AppLovin. With another six months left of the year, this number will continue to grow and do so at an exponential rate but what are some of the key upcoming IPOs to watch out for over the next month?
Medical innovation has become a significant focus for venture capital investment in the last ten years. A growing, ageing population combined with the opportunity to develop global solutions is driving a spike in innovation that helps people better manage their wellbeing or enables them to get well sooner.
It has been said that the decision as to where to place a trust is as important as the decision to create one. As we come through the economic uncertainty created by the pandemic and brace for tax changes – both at the federal and state levels – choosing the proper trust jurisdiction with the most progressive and flexible trust laws is more important now than ever.
Deliveroo’s long-awaited trading debut on the London Stock Exchange can be labelled as one of the weakest in stock market history. After months of planning, drama and speculation, Deliveroo’s stock sank by 30% on its very first trading day, making it a poor first-day performance for a sizeable London IPO (above £1 billion) and yet another big name to fall short on achieving its initial target valuation. In a nutshell, its start to life as a public company was definitely not what this tech giant had first expected.
Despite the pandemic, many M&A practitioners have been quite busy since the latter part of 2020. There have been and will continue to be, competitive M&A sales processes for valuable and desirable companies, businesses and assets. In a highly competitive M&A sales process, the seller, the seller’s counsel and investments bankers must balance protecting the seller and their confidential information against maximising the number of buyers that participate in the process.
2020 saw many banks struggle to keep up with the rapidly changing needs of their corporate clients. Banking Circle research investigated how these banks are working with third parties to futureproof – and pandemic-proof – their solutions, as co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Anders la Cour, explains.
The Receivable Investment Fund, known as FIDC in Brazil, is a fully regulated vehicle by the Brazilian Securities Commission (CVM)and is widely used by factoring companies. We learn more about it from Brazilian economist Giovanni Cataldi below.
To learn about what a public adjuster can do for you, we caught up with Jeffrey O’Connor, who has been a licensed public adjuster since 1985 and has been with Alex N. Sill Company since 1992. Sill, along with its sister firm, National Fire Adjustment Co, Inc. (NFA) forms North America’s largest national public adjusting and loss consultants firm servicing insureds on their property claims (and never the insurance company) throughout the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, the company has 30 offices throughout the US and Canada and is accredited by the National Association of Public Insurance Adjusters (NAPIA).
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