Beacon Street Group, a financial services company based in Baltimore, is expected to go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). We'll update this page as new information becomes available.
What we know about the Beacon Street IPO
Financial services group Beacon Street Group has entered into an agreement to go public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), also known as a blank check company. SPACs are companies with no commercial operations that exist purely to raise capital through IPOs. The proposed offering will value the combined company at about $3 billion. No date has been announced yet.
The SPAC, Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp, originally went public in July 2020 and currently trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol "ACND."
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Company summary
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. provides technology solutions for merchants, banks, and capital markets firms worldwide. It operates through Merchant Solutions, Banking Solutions, and Capital Market Solutions segments. The Merchant Solutions segment offers merchant acquiring, integrated payment, and global e-commerce solutions. The Banking Solutions segment provides core processing and ancillary applications; digital solutions, including Internet, mobile, and e-banking; fraud, risk management, and compliance solutions; electronic funds transfer and network services; card and retail payment solutions; wealth and retirement solutions; and item processing and output services. The Capital Market Solutions segment offers securities processing and finance, global trading, asset management and insurance, and corporate liquidity solutions. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. provides cloud-based human capital management solutions worldwide. It operates through two segments, Employer Services and Professional Employer Organization (PEO). The Employer Services segment offers strategic, cloud-based platforms, and human resources (HR) outsourcing solutions. Its offerings include payroll, benefits administration, talent management, HR management, workforce management, insurance, retirement, and compliance services. The PEO Services segment provides HR outsourcing solutions to small and mid-sized businesses through a co-employment model. This segment offers benefits package, protection and compliance, talent engagement, comprehensive outsourcing, and recruitment process outsourcing services. The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Roseland, New Jersey.
Palantir Technologies Inc. builds and deploys software platforms for the intelligence community in the United States to assist in counterterrorism investigations and operations. The company provides Palantir Gotham, a software platform for government operatives in the defense and intelligence sectors, which enables users to identify patterns hidden deep within datasets, ranging from signals intelligence sources to reports from confidential informants, as well as facilitates the handoff between analysts and operational users, helping operators plan and execute real-world responses to threats that have been identified within the platform. It also offers Palantir Foundry, a platform that transforms the ways organizations operate by creating a central operating system for their data; and allows individual users to integrate and analyze the data they need in one place. Palantir Technologies Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
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Sheri Bechtel is the share trading and investments editor at Finder. She is a seasoned journalist who has reported on bonds, stocks, engineering and other topics for more than 20 years. For 12 years, she was a markets reporter for Prospect News, spearheading their coverage of private investments in public equities, high-yield debt, structured products and municipal bonds. Before joining Finder, Sheri was editor-in-chief of Plastics Engineering from Wiley. She has a bachelor’s degree in English from Columbus State University and a side gig as a novelist.
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