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Marketplace Valuation: Beyond GMV to Real Value Creation

Equidam

As marketplaces increasingly dominate the venture landscape—with approximately 27 deals in H2 2024 versus just 25 in H1 2023 and dollar volume recovering to $81M in H2 vs $70M in H1 of 2024 —founders and investors desperately need better frameworks for determining what these businesses are truly worth.

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Congress Should Repeal the Least-Cost Requirement for Resolving Failed Banks

Reynolds Holding

JPMorgan’s acquisition of First Republic Bank after its spectacular collapse in April 2023 sparked immediate outrage among some financial policymakers. In one notable case, the FDIC’s cost estimate for resolving Silicon Valley Bank fluctuated by almost $6 billion as it sold the failed bank’s assets throughout 2023.

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A Fraudulent Transfer may be the Result of a Breach of Fiduciary Duties

ABI

5] After experiencing financial difficulties, a major creditor of TransCare issued a notice of non-renewal and pressured TransCare to liquidate. [6] 11] After the Trustee refused to provide NewCo with TransCare’s computer server, Tilton transferred the assets back to the TransCare Estate where they were liquidated by TransCare’s Trustee. [12]

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Data Update 6 for 2023: A Wake up call for the Indebted?

Musings on Markets

In this post, I will focus on corporate debt in 2023, keeping in mind that it was a year where the tradeoffs changed, as interest rates rose to pre-2008 levels, and putting at risk those firms that had borrowed to capacity, or even beyond, at low interest rates.

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