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Avoiding The M&A Failure Trap: Q&A With NYU’s Baruch Lev And SUNY Buffalo’s Feng Gu

Global Finance

Together, they recently published The M&A Failure Trap: Why So Many Mergers and Acquisitions Fail, and How the Few Succeed (Wiley). What is it about the current M&A environment that prompted you? Lev: Three years ago, Feng and I, as keen observers of M&A, saw several troubling things.

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European Banks Pursue Mergers To Gain Competitive Edge

Global Finance

Lenders across Europe are ramping up M&A efforts to scale operations, strengthen balance sheets, and navigate an evolving financial landscape. With interest rates stabilizing and capital reserves at healthy levels, banks are taking advantage of strategic acquisitions to fuel growth and enhance profitability. trillion AUM.

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Understanding the M&A Process Before Making a Deal 

CFO Talks

Understanding the M&A Process Before Making a Deal Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are some of the biggest decisions a business can make. To make M&A work, companies must carefully analyse the target business, negotiate the right price, and successfully combine both businesses.

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Nordic Finance: M&A And Partnerships Fuel Bank Growth

Global Finance

The heightened level of regional consolidation, especially among Danish and Norwegian savings banks, has produced more than 50 mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the first half of 2024. The offer obtained foreign direct investment regulatory clearance in July. Insurance group Sampo’s $4.73

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#FA Success Ep 351: Facilitating Successful Advisor Mergers & Acquisitions By Avoiding The Conflicts Of A Success Fee, With Jessica Polito

Nerd's Eye View

Jessica is the Founder and Principal for Turkey Hill Management, a mergers & acquisitions consulting firm that assists financial advisors with the sale, acquisition, integration, or merger of their firms. My guest on today's podcast is Jessica Polito.

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Private Equity in 2025: Five Key Levers Driving Value Creation

E78 Partners

For PE operating partners, five key areas stand out as essential drivers of value creation: operational efficiency and margin improvement, digital transformation and AI integration, add-on acquisitions and consolidation, exit readiness, and talent optimization.

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FP&A’s Scope: What Is In And What Is Out?

Fpanda Club

As FP&A professional, how often do you feel that you do something you shouldnt? FP&A is an evolving function that falls into the intersection of finance, operations and strategy aimed at driving better decision-making trough insightful analysis, forecasting and goal setting. So, the scope of FP&A: what is in and what is out?