Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Intercontinental’s multifaceted data and exchange platform began as an electricity marketplace, founded in 2000 by current CEO Jeffrey Sprecher with the backing of two investment banks and seeded by volume from energy majors Shell, Total, and British Petroleum (the collapse of Enron, the dominant electricity broker at the time, fortuitously diverted a […]
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scuttlebits [FI] Fiserv
[scuttlebit] Fiserv’s October Massacre
What are scuttlebits? On the heels of my Global Payments post, another boomer payments stock [...]
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[JHX] Will James Hardie’s big acquisition pay off?
In last summer’s building materials series, I explained how branded manufacturers, like James Hardie in [...]
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[scuttlebit] Guidewire scales
What are scuttlebits? Nowhere is the insurance industry’s notorious resistance to change more evident than [...]
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[scuttlebit] Wise is probably going to be fine
What are scuttlebits? “we fundamentally believe whoever has the best infrastructure in this space will [...]
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Is Gartner Doomed?
In simple terms what Gartner does is it furnishes research reports that executives use to [...]
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