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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

In 2006, investment banks were at the top of the finance world. In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. Over the next 2 years, everything fell apart. STAYING PRIVATE.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

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In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. Before there was Google Pay , there were three earlier versions of Google payments, starting with Google Checkout in 2006. They all died.

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