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TRM's $11 million "lifeline" from LC Capital Master Fund Ltd. helps the troubled ATM owner pay off its debts and gave TRM the seed money to acquire its rival, ATM deployer "Access to Money." When TRM acquired eFunds ATM Portfolio of 17,200 ATMs in 2004 for $150 million, TRM had over 22,000 ATMs and...

Comscore's absurd data caused a seismic roar in the media world, but it turned out that the data was awry, as it is unfortunately with all analytic firms.  Google's growth is relentless, as is the growth of all online.  This article looks at a few of the ways other companies can compete with...

It's hard to fathom that "Fred the Shred's" (known for his brutal cost-cutting in the past) role in the battle for ABN-Amro between Barclays may have led to RBS's plans to raise the largest cash call of British banks of $20 billion+ in a 1-for-2 basis "rights issue" to raise capital and shore up its...

Let The Industry Stabilize And Grow By It's Own Dynamics Instead Of Another House Bill. 

This is a good reminder that buying advertising from Google is like betting against the house and that barriers to entry for competitors like Microsoft and Yahoo! continue to rise.  Google has great supply - but how much demand is in the market is the question.

Blackstone Capital Partners V L.P. may have had a case of "buyer's remorse" with its $7.8 billion deal including the assumption of certain debt of ADS. The deal valued ADS at $81.75 a share, representing a premium of about 30% over ADS's closing price of $62.96 on 5.16.07. However, since that time ADS's...

The demand for mobile banking is growing and over the next 4-5 years, m-banking and m-payments will drive the boom in demand for wireless payments and banking. Banks, processors, card networks and mobile carriers are pushing two types of transactions with mobile devices, m-banking and m-commerce. The...

The Internet, Biotech and Cleantech are the sectors that benefited the most from venture capitals (VC) investments in 1Q08, despite a drop in VC investments to $7.1 billion in 1Q08. The economic slowdown has caused VC's to all but close their wallets to IPOs and M&As, which is the two most common...

Freddie Mac (GSE - Government-Sponsored Enterprises) wastes no time and begins to finance $10 billion to $15 billion in jumbo mortgages from big lenders. This follows the actions of other GSE's to add liquidity into the real estate market. I sincerely believe that this effort will help to flatten...

Current 'so called' mortgage metrics are not necessarially useful now or in the future. Ratios and numbers can always leave room for interpretaion and misdiagnosis.   Definately positive refi action is taking place for the strapped borrowers and principal committed investors; the GSE's should keep...