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Lending Club Joins IPO Club

Clocking in at an $8+ Bn market cap, Lending Club is the latest IPO in the fintech space, and one that takes aim at the core functions of banking with person-to-person, or crowd-sourced, lending. Shares rallied 70% in early trading. Should this deal itself have been crowd-sourced, too?? Here at DealVector we were astonished by […]

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Small is Beautiful

The Economist has an article describing how small financial firms are flourishing; fragmentation is now reversing the decades-long consolidation trend on Wall Street. In M&A, for example, advisory fees for boutique firms have grown from about 8% of the total pot in 2000 to nearly 30% today. Such firms, where they are publicly listed, trade […]

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