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[ADYEN] Adyen N.V. [FIS] Fidelity National Information [FISV] Fiserv [GPN] Global Payments

A tour through payments: part 2 (Adyen, GPN, FIS, FISV)

January 16, 2023

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[MA] Mastercard [V] Visa

A tour through payments: part 1 (Visa and Mastercard)

December 22, 2022

This is my last post of the year. Before getting into it, here are some [...]

[SITE] SiteOne

[SITE] SiteOne Landscape Supply

November 28, 2022

SiteOne sources 135k landscaping SKUs from 5k suppliers and distributes to 280k customers, most of [...]

[VRSK] Verisk Analytics

November 28, 2022

One job of an insurance commissioner is to ensure that carriers under their jurisdiction have [...]

[CSGP] CoStar Group

[CSGP] CoStar

November 15, 2022

One way to make money is to start with transactions and monetize the data exhaust. [...]

[ETFC] E-Trade, [IBKR] Interactive Brokers, [SCHW] Charles Schwab

Discount Brokers: Disruption, Bundling, and the Battle for the Mass Affluent; Part 2

Posted on September 20, 2018September 21, 2018 by scuttleblurb

Related Post: Discount Brokers: Disruption, Bundling, and the Battle for the Mass Affluent; Part 1 Interactive Brokers Sustainably profiting from a commodity service like trade execution requires, at the very least, a low cost advantage, which in the brokerage space belongs to Interactive Brokers. Despite realizing ~half the commission dollars per trade, Interactive generates the highest […]

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[AMTD] TD Ameritrade, [ETFC] E-Trade, [IBKR] Interactive Brokers, [SCHW] Charles Schwab

Discount Brokers: Disruption, Bundling, and the Battle for the Mass Affluent; Part 1

Posted on September 10, 2018October 2, 2019 by scuttleblurb

I define culture as the set of unspoken assumptions that guides behavior. Whether it intends to or not, every company has a culture. However, not every culture, even ones underpinned by values that make the world a better place, confers competitive advantage. From the perspective of value creation, the question is not so much is […]