NewsViz

The week in finance, on one page.

“Tell me about something happening in the market” is the most predictable question in finance and the one candidates fumble most. Here is the flow across M&A, capital raises, private equity, venture and hedge funds, straight off the wires and the publishers the news desks watch, with the takes you need to sound like you have been paying attention.

Sources: PR Newswire and GlobeNewswire M&A wires · every headline links its release · 80 deals on the tape · last synced 17 October 2026

NewsViz: the week, in one picture

synced 17 October 2026

Five verticals, one picture: what got bought, what got funded, and who is raising. Filter to the seat you are interviewing for, pick the biggest tile you cannot explain yet, and go read it. That is the whole exercise.

Tile size follows stated deal value, or recency where no value is disclosed; brighter tiles are newer. Every tile links the original release or article.

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Friday 16 October

· 6 deals

Thursday 15 October

· 14 deals

Wednesday 14 October

· 6 deals

Tuesday 13 October

· 20 deals

Monday 12 October

· 8 deals

Friday 9 October

· 15 deals

Thursday 8 October

· 11 deals

The Takes

House notes on how deals actually work. Cynical on purpose, useful by design.

Deal math

Synergies are a promise, the premium is a payment

Every announcement puts a synergy number in the third paragraph and the premium in the first. One is contractual and paid at close. The other is a forecast made by the people who wanted the deal. Model them with the confidence they deserve, which is not the same confidence.

Accretion / dilution in Primer

Currency

Paying in stock is a statement about your own valuation

A buyer who pays cash thinks its shares are cheap. A buyer who pays stock is, at minimum, comfortable spending them. That is why all-stock deals cluster near market highs, and why the market marks the acquirer down on the news more often than the textbook suggests.

Why P/E logic drives accretion

Follow a deal on this map to the numbers behind it

A tape tells you what happened. The pages below tell you what it was worth, who argued for it and who owns the pieces.

Deal tapeEvery deal with the price, the premium and the multiple Banker board booksThe adviser materials filed behind these deals Comps ExplorerValue any name on the map against its peers What the crowd is pricingLive odds on the rates, oil and deals ahead

Turn the tape into an answer they remember.

Pick a deal, learn the mechanics in Primer, then rehearse the walkthrough with someone who has sat on the other side of the table. That is what a discovery session is for.

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