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Financial Services


Overview | Portfolio Companies

Overview

MDP's financial services team focuses on three primary sub-sectors of the financial services industry:

Asset management - Includes investment managers, information services companies, and other service providers focused on the investment management industry, distributors of investment products, and other providers of investment services.

Financial Outsourcing - Includes transaction, payment, core, account and other processing companies, as well as credit services companies.

Specialty Finance - Includes a broad array of companies in both the specialty commercial and consumer lending markets.

MDP pursues investments in financial services companies exhibiting many of the following favorable characteristics:

  • Barriers to entry and inherent franchise value emanating from unique distribution capabilities, servicing capabilities, or industry-specific knowledge;
  • Outstanding management;
  • Aggressive utilization of technology;
  • Favorable industry or demographic trends; and
  • Conservative accounting and financing policies.

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Portfolio Companies

Representative past and present financial services portfolio companies include:

Company   Business Description

CapitalSource Inc.   Asset-based and cash flow lender  (commercial finance) 
Eldorado Bancshares, Inc.   Community banking 
HomeSide, Inc.   Residential mortgage banking company
Newtrend, Inc.   Bank core processing company 
Nuveen Investments, Inc.   Asset management 
Pax Holding Corporation   Options and stock clearing firm
PayPal, Inc.   Online payments network 
PeopleFirst Inc.   Internet-based auto finance company

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