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Marketplace Valuation: Beyond GMV to Real Value Creation

Equidam

2024-2025 Marketplace Valuation Trends Recent data reveals a marketplace funding environment that’s simultaneously challenging and selective. EV/Revenue in 2025, much below their long-term average of 5.6x The root cause lies in how different marketplace models define and record GMV.

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Tanzania: East Africa’s New Powerhouse

Global Finance

in 2024 and 6% in 2025. The act has been a major shift in the governments rhetoric toward investments and the business community, notes Imani Muhingo, head of research and financial analytics at Tanzanian broker and investment advisory Alpha Capital. Inflation (2024, projected): 3.2% GDP growth has averaged 5.5% Tanzania office.

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Price vs Value (Part 2): The Financialisation of Startup Investing

Equidam

Indeed, 2025 is shaping up as a “crucible moment” that will reveal whether those lofty valuations hold or if reality forces a reckoning. PitchBook Analyst Note: US VC-Backed IPO Expectations By mid-2025, however, a tentative reopening of the IPO market has shown that reality cannot be deferred forever.

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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data

Musings on Markets

It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and running, and I plan to use this post to describe my data sample, my processes for computing industry statistics and the links to finding them. In the table below, we compare the changes in regional market capitalizations (in $ millions) over time.

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The (Uncertain) Payoff from Alternative Investments: Many a slip between the cup and the lip?

Musings on Markets

The first is that they have low correlations with financial assets (stocks and bonds), allowing for diversification benefits and the second is investments in some of these alternative asset groupings have the potential to earn excess returns or alphas.

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GCC Digital Upheaval – Fintechs vs Banks

Global Finance

New ventures like Wio Bank, launched with backing from ADQ, Alpha Dhabi, e& (Etisalat) and FAB, signal a strategic shift toward purpose-built digital banking infrastructure while fintechs are filling specific market gaps. Ruya, a fully digital Islamic community bank, typifies this emerging model.

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Hudson RPO Acquires Alpha Consulting Group (ACG) Japan

Benzinga

July 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hudson Global, Inc. OLD GREENWICH, Conn.,