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April 28, 2008
Western Union acts to co-opt mobile money transfers
Analysis of: Western Union in Mobile Partnership | www.americanbanker.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
Money transfer Goliath Western Union is moving to co-opt the threat posed by hybrid mobile phone/stored value card person-to-person remittances. At a minimum Western Union’s new service is a validation of remote mobile phone-based money transfer and makes it likely it will achieve meaningful market...
April 23, 2008
TRM Gets $11 Million Lifeline; Buys Rival "Access to Money"
Analysis of: BREAKING: TRM Buys ATM ISO Access to Money for $15 million | www.atmmarketplace.com
Author: Kamala Worthington, Former VP, Marketing Product Manager, Bank of America Corporation
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...
April 21, 2008
RBS To Raise $20 Billion+ In A Rights Issue & Sir Fred Goodwin Can Keep His Job For Now
Analysis of: RBS Set To Announce Major Capital Increase | www.iht.com
Author: Kamala Worthington, Former VP, Marketing Product Manager, Bank of America Corporation
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...
April 21, 2008
Alliance Data Sues Blackstone For $170 Million "Breakup Fee"
Analysis of: Blackstone Says Alliance Data Lawsuit Spurious | today.reuters.com
Author: Kamala Worthington, Former VP, Marketing Product Manager, Bank of America Corporation
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...
April 21, 2008
Is 2008 The Tipping Point For Mobile Banking In the U.S.?
Analysis of: Online Banking Is Old News. Hello Mobile! | www.emarketer.com
Author: Kamala Worthington, Former VP, Marketing Product Manager, Bank of America Corporation
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...
April 21, 2008
Venture Capitalists Wallets Feel the Strain Of A Slowdown In 1Q08
Analysis of: Venture Capitalists Invest Less In First Quarter | www.reuters.com
Author: Kamala Worthington, Former VP, Marketing Product Manager, Bank of America Corporation
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...
April 21, 2008
10-15 billion dollar for jumbo loans may not be enough.
Analysis of: Freddie to Finance Jumbo Loans | online.wsj.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
What Freddie Mac is doing now is supposed to do 3 years ago (a call from Allen Greenspan in May 2005), specifically to liquidate substantially with little disruption to the housing market in 2005.  The call from Allen Greenspan came at the time when the combined holdings (of mortgages and mortgage...
Mark MariottiApril 21, 2008
Congress changed the rules
Analysis of: Freddie to Finance Jumbo Loans | online.wsj.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
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...
Mark MariottiApril 21, 2008
Steady Freddy... Fannie... Penny and the FHA
Analysis of: Mortgage applications up, FHA index climbs more | www.reuters.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
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...
Mark MariottiApril 21, 2008
Firms like WaMu are pass-thru lenders. Ease investor anxiety NOW
Analysis of: WaMu Ditches the Wholesale Mortgage Biz | www.businessweek.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
a) Ease investor anxiety NOW   b) Secondary Mortgage Market Investors have been worried that recent data indicate a slowing economy, which would continue to cut into potential profit growth and actual principal at some of the nation's biggest mortgage companies, and portfolios.

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