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May 20, 2008
Deal With Investment Bank JP Morgan Will Get Target Where It Needs To Be Long Term
Analysis of: Target in credit card deal with JPMorgan | www.ft.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
1. First Step of major change in the retail card business: Target largest of any non-financial company card portfolio's is getting out of the business and JP Morgan/Chase in getting in.   2. Deal give Target what it needs in cash, control, limited loss exposure during economic downturn. 3. JP Morgan/...
Bill BradwayMay 19, 2008
First Boom, Now Bust Burns An Aggressive Banker
Analysis of: A Gamble That Went Bust | online.wsj.com
Author: Bill Bradway, Founder & Managing Director, Bradway Research, LLC
The housing bust has already made headlines from the subprime fallout, claiming dozens of mortgage banks, producing asset write offs approaching $300 billion on a global basis, and forcing many of the largest financial institutions to raise billions in new capital. Now smaller banks are going over the...
May 15, 2008
Risk-Based Pricing Notices: Positive for all Borrowers
Analysis of: Fed, FTC Propose New Rules on Poor-Credit Notices | www.reuters.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
The Federal Reserve and FTC proposed a requirement for lenders to notify borrowers with damaged credit of their reasons for offering less than favorable interest rates. Currently, consumers seeking loans and lines of credit have only a vague idea of why a lender offers them a specific rate. With this...
May 15, 2008
What's Old Becomes New Again
Analysis of: First Data Gets Major Retail Prepaid Distribution with InComm Deal | www.digitaltransactions.net
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
With the shake up amongst the largest U.S. credit card issuers over for the time being, it's no wonder that processers like First Data are going to be searching for new ways to leverage their network investments.  First Data built their reputation in part by holding as many pieces of the transaction...
Howard BruckMay 13, 2008
Desktop virtualization as no-brainer, nearly there
Analysis of: Desktop Virtualization Drives Security, Not Just Dollar Savings | www.informationweek.com
Author: Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer, Hudson Valley Bank
Desktop virtualization has always been an enticing proposition, but it was never able to overcome the practical limitations, and more importantly never gained acceptance from the user base.  However, the proliferation and acceptance of browser based applications, proliferation of...
May 7, 2008
Insurance Scoring is a Compliance Nightmare: 50 States, 50 Sets of Rules
Analysis of: Credit Scoring | www.iii.org
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
In the absence of a sweeping change in federal legislation, insurance underwriting today is regulated by the states.  This means that when the Mississippi or Texas or Alaska state legislature passes a new bill governing the use of credit scores in insurance underwriting, all involved parties must...
Michael SchiffMay 6, 2008
Teradata - New Platforms for Competing Against Data Warehouse Applicances
Analysis of: Teradata Unveils Entry to Enterprise-Level Data Warehouse Appliance | www.informationweek.com
Author: Michael Schiff, Founder and Principal Analyst, MAS Strategies
o While Teradata has been slow to acknowledge that data warehouse appliances were more than a niche market, Teradata may actually have been the original data warehouse appliance vendor. o Data warehouse appliances do not necessarily replace traditional data warehouses; rather they complement them and...
Ronald IngramMay 2, 2008
World's Largest Payment Processor First Data Acquires InComm - Valuation Trend Implications for Global Payment Systems GPN, MV, V, MA and TSS and hundreds of smaller payment technology players
Analysis of: First Data Gets Major Retail Prepaid Distribution with InComm Deal | www.digitaltransactions.net
Author: Ronald Ingram, Director of Product Management, Advance America, Cash Advance Centers, Inc.
Visa's IPO was the largest in history and payment companies like Global Payment Sytems (GPN) and First Data are rising along with the tide. FDC’s choice of Incomm is likely a positive indicator of things to come. Who is the next Incomm? How will the Incomm acquisition affect the valuation of payment...
Howard LiggettMay 1, 2008
The Future of Florida's Municipal Golf Courses
Analysis of: How Green is Golf? | www.golfdigest.com
Author: Howard Liggett, President and CEO, Distressed Real Estate Consulting Services, Inc.
Foreclosures,tax increases,land devaluations and a sour economic outlook  for the remainder 2008 have forced municipalities and counties to look at fat trimming measures which hurt the least number of citizens.  The recently passed Amendment One forces local governments to limit tax increases...
Mark MariottiApril 29, 2008
If history teaches us anything... it teaches us NOT to predict the future.
Analysis of: Is now the time to aggressively buy semi stocks, i.e. is the bottom of the cycle near? | www.edn.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
But the future can be managed. We can look at the past cycles and then extrapolate forward potential probabilities. When markets contract, they can keep contracting to oblivion. But the probabilities of markets which are infrastructure tested, tried and true, tend to rebound. Demand growth and upgrades...

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