A Merger of Equals
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🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Global Payments merges with Total System Services on an all-stock deal worth $21.5 billion. Jason Moser analyzes the deal and shares why Global Payments’ margin for error is getting smaller. Plus, we discuss why Citigroup bailed on the Apple credit card, Facebook’s plans for crypto, and the surprisingly big weekend “Aladdin” had at the box office.
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| 0:25.0 | It's Tuesday, May 28th. Welcome to Market Flory. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio, Jason Moser. |
| 0:29.3 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey, happy to be here. |
| 0:31.5 | So for those who listen to industry focus, those folks know that |
| 0:37.0 | Jason hosts the Monday episode about financials. There was not an episode yesterday because |
| 0:41.5 | of the Memorial Day holiday. |
| 0:43.0 | Yep. |
| 0:44.0 | That's good that you're here today because this is going to be a finance heavy show. |
| 0:48.0 | There is a lot going on in the war on cash. |
| 0:50.0 | We're going to get to that. |
| 0:51.0 | We have a little bit of entertainment news to get to as well. |
| 0:53.0 | Let's start with the merger, the deal of the day, a merger of two payment tech companies, |
| 1:00.0 | global payments and total system services to companies that appear to have gone out of |
| 1:06.2 | their way to stick with really boring names. |
| 1:10.1 | This is an all-stock deal. |
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