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Heritage Financial Secures Approval for ~$176.6M All-Stock Olympic Bancorp Deal, Targeting 18% EPS Gain

Heritage Financial has secured all regulatory...

The $176.6 million all-stock deal uses a fixe...

The merger adds 17 branches and about $1.7B i...

Heritage also strengthens its low-cost deposi...

Huntington’s $7.4B Cadence Deal: $276B Bank, Southern Growth & Trade-Offs

Americas M&A Commercial Banking

Huntington Bancshares has received all requir...

Cadence shareholders will receive 2.475 Hunti...

The combined bank is expected to have about $...

Management expects roughly 10% EPS accretion ...

Icon Identity & MC Group Merger: PE-Backed Brand Implementation Firm Expands

Americas M&A Outsourcing

Icon Identity Solutions (Merit Capital Partne...

The combination broadened offerings by pairin...

Duff & Phelps (Kroll) advised Icon as exclusi...

Operations will be centered in Mentor, Ohio w...

2025 Surge in Tech Advisor M&A: PE-Backed Deals Lead in CX, AI & Cloud

Americas M&A Management Consulting

Tech advisor M&A is rebounding in 2025 after ...

Upstack continues as the most active consolid...

Bluewave is expanding both geography and capa...

Easing interest rates and ample private credi...

How Waverly, Moneta & Private Advisor are Redefining RIA M&A: Growth, Culture & Ownership

Americas M&A Asset Management

Waverly, Moneta, and Private Advisor Group ea...

Waverly bought Ohio-based Brass Tax ($465M AU...

Moneta merged with New Jersey’s Lane Hipple (...

Private Advisor Group merged Michigan’s Freed...

Florida & U.S. Short-Term Rental Trends: Demand, Costs & Smart Investor Moves

Global FYI Financial Services

U.S. second-home mortgage originations fell t...

Florida led the pullback, with major metros l...

Higher insurance, HOA fees, property taxes, m...

Short-term rentals remain active as hosts shi...

RIA M&A Deals Surge in 2025: Trends Driving Record Deal Volume & What’s Ahead

Americas M&A Asset Management

RIA M&A hit a new high in 2025 (~273 deals by...

Succession needs from aging owners and scale-...

Private equity-backed platforms dominate buye...

Recession, market volatility, inflation/stick...

Stranger Things Expands: New Live-Action Spin-Off & Tales from ’85 Under Netflix’s IP Strategy

Global FYI Financial Services

The Duffer Brothers are developing a live-act...

The project is still early, with its title, c...

It will sit alongside the animated Tales from...

The move extends the franchise beyond Season ...

Stranger Things Finale Ends Hawkins Saga, Sets Stage for Ambitious Spinoff Mythology

Global FYI Financial Services

The Stranger Things series finale plants a ke...

The Duffers say the spinoff will explain that...

Netflix is treating the main saga as complete...

An animated project, Stranger Things: Tales F...

Stranger Things Spinoff: Netflix Builds New Mythology, Characters & Strategy

Global Firms Streaming & Digital Media

Netflix is developing a live-action “Stranger...

The new series will be “1000% different,” wit...

Matt and Ross Duffer will help steer the proj...

A separate animated series, “Stranger Things:...