Appraisers Blog

JULY 1, 2025

This isn’t just about technology, markets, or the economy. Interest Rates: A Decade of Volatility • 2015: ~3.4% • 2021: ~2.7% (pandemic low) • 2025: ~6.75% and rising Mortgage rates have nearly tripled in four years, crushing affordability and stalling refinances. And many of us still practicing can feel it more than we can see it.

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Sun Acquisitions

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Merging for Sustainability Muscle Imagine a company with a revolutionary battery technology for electric vehicles merging with a leading electric car manufacturer. This cross-pollination of ideas sparks breakthroughs and fast-tracks the development of cutting-edge clean technologies.

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Global Finance

MARCH 5, 2025

For global banks pinning their hopes on technology as the solution to operational cost and regulatory issues, blockchain and fintech still face the same issues as traditional banks. Once we get those creators, theres room for more niche players to emerge. There is no silver bullet to the compliance challenges the region faces, Stokes argues.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 29, 2024

With top-line expansion hard to come by, and no immediate crisis to combat, bankers are renewing their focus on technology to squeeze costs and enhance customer interaction, Vora says. AI promises a technological challenge, which can also spell opportunity. The other challenges remain very much in force. Regulators are far from asleep.

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Global Finance

MARCH 2, 2025

They committed accounting fraud in the second and third quarters of 2021; it was announced in 2025. GF: Will there be some technology available using your model? So, we already knew at the end of 2010 that they were likely to commit fraud. A more recent one is [fitness-beverage maker] Celsius. So I think short sellers.

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Global Finance

JUNE 9, 2025

Wenov’s WeLab experiments with emerging technologies. In 2024, Wenov purchased more than $750,000 of these technologies. Currently, lab activities focus on the adoption of cutting-edge technologies in fields such as the metaverse, mixed reality, decentralized finance, and AI. The lab has focused heavily on AI and automation.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

China’s largest bank works directly with EV manufacturers such as Guangzhou Xiaopeng Motors Technology, Zeekr, and Li Auto to provide one-stop loan application, facility, interview, and issuing services. CCB’s Guangdong Province branch in March reported lending ¥160 billion to more than 50,000 local, technology-based enterprises.

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Global Finance

JUNE 3, 2025

A 2021 law ordered all sensitive data to be hosted within Moroccos borders, which led to data repatriation. Since then, incentives have been put in place for the sector, including tax cuts and exemptions in the National Charter of Investment. The desire for data sovereignty has also contributed to the boom in data centers.

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Global Finance

JUNE 16, 2025

We also boast a vibrant and dynamic corporate sector and a highly skilled and technologically excellent pool of human resources.” million citizens and forecast average growth of 5% in 2025, Malaysia is expanding its profile as an investment hub. Unlike [Singapore], “we have prime land available for development.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Uber Technologies is reportedly considering an acquisition of online travel giant Expedia Group. An Expedia takeover makes good on a promise Khosrowshahi made in 2021 when he outlined a plan to transform Uber into a so-called superapp. An acquisition of Seattle-based Expedia would elevate Uber’s ambitions to new heights.

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Financial Times M&A

JUNE 20, 2025

McLaughlin is the founder of Financial Technology Partners (or “FT Partners”), which he started as a niche firm almost 25 years ago. AvidXchange said in its 10-K for 2021 that an existing engagement letter with FT Partners, which had been signed with the company in 2010, would be replaced with a revised contract just prior to the listing.

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ThomsonReuters

JULY 18, 2025

Jump to ↓ Best revival of a deduction The whiplash award Best newcomer Most dramatic plot twist Biggest crowd-pleaser In memoriam Closing remarks Lead with strategy, powered by technology Best revival of a deduction And the winner is: The qualified business income (QBI) deduction ! Known as the star of the TCJA, IRC Sec.

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Global Finance

JULY 8, 2025

In Southeast Asia’s technology manufacturing sectors, steel is a critical component. Deepak Jajoo, CFO of Delaplex Limited —Technology and Consulting Services “While services are currently not subject to tariffs, we provide technology and consulting services to a broad range of US-based industries such as energy, warehousing, logistics, etc.

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Global Finance

MARCH 20, 2025

They are now using technology as a lever to reduce costs and innovate. According to S&P Global Ratings, operational costs for European banks increased by over 4% annually from 2021 to 2023 , emphasizing the need for effective cost management strategies. For the technology to be most effective, it requires a strong data foundation.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Often referred to as dry powder, this cash pile has been accumulating since the last big global mergers-and-acquisitions blowout, in 2021, when volume reached a whopping $5.9 Smaller firms are struggling to compete with the larger players that can better absorb regulatory compliance costs and invest in new technology, he notes.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

The top three sectors when it comes to dealmaking, according to McKinsey, are global energy and materials (GEM); telecom, media, and technology (TMT); and financial services. TM Technology, Media, And Communications: Centerview Partners It was a banner year for Centerview Partners. billion, one on the largest gold deals of 2024.

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Global Finance

MAY 6, 2025

Oil and gas, infrastructure, mining, agriculture and agro-processing – especially of cocoa – and information and communications technology are among the sectors commanding attention, along with financial services and tourism. billion from the previous year. In 2023, however, inflows dropped to $1.3 billion, a 7.6%

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

However, activity was still below prepandemic levels (with a total deal value of $173 billion in 2019) and substantially below peaks in 2021 and 2022. Similarly, the proportion of private equity deals in the sector increasedfrom 14% of all deals in 2023 to 22% in 2024. million tons annually.

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Global Finance

MARCH 5, 2025

The increasing competition between world powers to secure the future of their manufacturing and technology supply chains is turning Latin Americas unique pool of critical minerals and rare-earth elements into a critical new battleground. Economist Impact and J.P.

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ThomsonReuters

MARCH 3, 2025

Take for instance, the many tax-related changes enacted under The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017; the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in 2020; the Coronavirus Response and Consolidated Appropriations Act in 2021; and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Tools to help master the U.S. tax code Mastering the U.S.

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Global Finance

JULY 1, 2025

. “Illicit trade threatens public safety, undermines intellectual property rights, and hampers economic growth, and the risks could increase as counterfeiters leverage new technologies and techniques to avoid detection,” said OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann. More recent national data for the US confirms the trend.

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Benzinga

JULY 11, 2025

(NASDAQ: MAAS ) ("MAAS" or the "Company") today announced that it has signed a non-binding framework agreement with certain shareholders of Qingdao Youdian New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. ("Youdian") and Qingdao Huijulaixi Intelligent Technology Co.,

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Global Finance

JUNE 30, 2025

According to S&P Global Market Intelligence, crypto‑currency IPO volume peaked in 2021 with 11 offerings valued at $596 million. In June, the US Senate passed the GENIUS Act, a landmark federal bill that establishes a regulatory framework for dollar-backed stablecoins. So far this year, five crypto IPOs have raised just over $2.1 billion.

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Global Finance

JUNE 17, 2025

She then spent a decade at Meta before taking the helm of Instacart in 2021, where she navigated the end of the Covid disruption for the online grocery app and prepared its 2023 IPO. Simo, 39, is already a veteran of Silicon Valley. A graduate of the French business school HEC Paris, she began her US career as an intern at eBay.

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Benzinga

MAY 30, 2022

Dublin, May 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Deals in 2021 - Top Themes in Technology, Media, and Telecom (TMT) Sector - Thematic Research" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report provides an overview of merger.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In the technology industry, for example, many companies are shifting from a “growth at all costs” mind-set to a focus on profitability. They hired aggressively in 2020 and 2021 to ensure they had the resources to pursue new product development and customer groups.

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IVSC

AUGUST 26, 2024

Key Takeaways from the Series Since the launch of the first paper in September 2021, this series has been instrumental in addressing the growing importance of intangible assets, such as human capital, brand value, technology, data, and customer relationships.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Overall stockholder support for such proposals increased slightly compared to 2021. S&P 100 companies saw a similar substantial increase in the number of stockholder proposals in 2022 (the number of such proposals more than doubled); however, overall support declined compared to 2021. more…).

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 2, 2023

2021 WL 754593, (Del. 26, 2021) aff’d The Williams Companies, Inc. Rather, this shift reflects Delaware’s embrace of technological innovations and market changes, particularly those reshaping the role of shareholders. In re the Williams Cos. S’holder Litig., Wolosky, (Del. The Williams decisions reinterpret parts of Unocal Corp.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Total campaigns YTD (171) up 39% over the same period last year, already approaching the total for full-year 2021 (173). Continuing an H1 trend, Technology companies were the most frequently targeted in Q3, accounting for 22% of new activist targets. Continued Robust Activity Fueled by Strong Q3. Q3 activity in the U.S. (28 Recent U.S.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline in May 2021 was just one of many signs that environmental and cybersecurity risk are closely connected. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2022 notes that the five main areas of risk are economic, geopolitical, social, environmental and technological.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 29, 2024

As part of the settlement, the Company agreed to pay a $2.125 million civil penalty, an amount which, according to the SEC’s announcement, took into account the Company’s “meaningful cooperation that helped expedite the staff’s investigation” and their voluntary adoption of “new cybersecurity technology and controls.” more…)

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 24, 2024

In our recent article titled, “ Board gender diversity and investment efficiency: Global evidence from 83 country-level interventions ”, we catalog, for the first time, 83 country-level board gender diversity (BGD) interventions in 59 countries between 1999 and 2021. percentage points.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 16, 2023

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, in early 2021, the US stock market experienced a rather unusual phenomenon. However, in a recent paper , we take a broader and longer-term view of the technological developments undergirding the meme surge, and also sketch out a research agenda. more…)

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 30, 2022

Yet such complex and often high-frequency activity, made possible by highly-sophisticated technology, is regulated by a rule nearly as old as the first-ever cell phone. [1] Yet such complex and often high-frequency activity, made possible by highly-sophisticated technology, is regulated by a rule nearly as old as the first-ever cell phone. [1]

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 29, 2023

trillion at the end of September 2021. The firm concluded that, because of the greater volume of ESG-related disclosures by companies and third party ESG vendors, together with advancements in technology, “the use of ESG data to seek enhanced investment returns and/or mitigate investment risks has become more sophisticated.”

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 11, 2022

The Division announced an enhanced focus on five “significant areas”: (i) private funds; (ii) environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) investing; (iii) standards of conduct, including Regulation Best Interest, fiduciary duty and Form CRS; (iv) information security and operational resiliency; and (v) emerging technologies and crypto-assets.

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