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Irving Place Capital, formerly known as Bear Stearns Merchant Banking (BSMB), is an American private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in middle-market companies in the industrial, packaging, consumer and retail industries.
Plaintiffs allege that Visa, Mastercard, and other major credit card issuers engaged in a conspiracy to fix interchange fees, also known as swipe fees, that are charged to merchants for the privilege of accepting payment cards, at artificially high levels. In their complaint, the plaintiffs also alleged that the defendants unfairly interfere ...
In 2021, Jimmy Levin was appointed CEO of the company. [11] [12] The firm is managed by the Partner Management Committee of seven executives.[11]The company manages multi-strategy funds, dedicated credit funds, including opportunistic credit funds and Institutional Credit Strategies products, real estate funds and other alternative investment vehicles, including managing collateralized loan ...
The terminated merchant files are shared among processors and act as blacklists, where merchants with high-risk accounts or excessive chargebacks are put on the list and prevented from opening an account with a different credit card processor. Other reasons for being put on a terminated merchant file include: Merchant collusion; Fraud; Money ...
The high-frequency strategy was first made popular by Renaissance Technologies [27] who use both HFT and quantitative aspects in their trading. Many high-frequency firms are market makers and provide liquidity to the market which lowers volatility and helps narrow bid–offer spreads, making trading and investing cheaper for other market ...
Cayan was founded as Merchant Warehouse in 1998 by current CEO Henry Helgeson. Helgeson was working as a payment terminal salesman in upstate New York, and realized the still-nascent Internet could allow him to sell terminals at much lower margins. He focused on early internet search engines like Alta Vista. The company grew over the ensuing ...
Lee S. Ainslie III (born 1964) is an American businessman who founded the hedge fund firm Maverick Capital. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He is also a board member of the Robin Hood Foundation and owns a minority stake in the Washington Commanders of the National Football League .
A merchant bank is historically a bank dealing in commercial loans and investment. In modern British usage, it is the same as an investment bank. Merchant banks were the first modern banks and evolved from medieval merchants who traded in commodities, particularly cloth merchants. Historically, merchant banks' purpose was to facilitate or ...