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Blackstone Makes $7.8B Deal for Alliance

Private equity continues to pour into financial processing

By J. Kelman,  Newser User

Posted May 17, 2007 2:55 PM CDT

(Newser) – Blackstone has snapped up credit card services provider Alliance Data for $7.8 billion, joining a surge of private equity into dull but profitable back-office firms. The 30% above-market offer for Alliance, which also runs a data processing unit, is the latest in a wave...   Read full story »

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