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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Law with June Grasso from Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: This is Bloomberg Law. I'm Madison Mills in for June

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Speaker 2: Grasso this week. Well, JP Morgan has agreed to pay

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Speaker 2: two hundred and ninety million dollars to settle a lawsuit

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Speaker 2: alleging it knowingly benefited from former client Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking.

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Speaker 2: That's according to a person familiar with the matter in

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg News reporting. So joining us now to discuss this

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Speaker 2: is Hannah love It, Bloomberg News finance reporter. Hannah, thank

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Speaker 2: you so much for being with us on the line.

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Speaker 2: Just give me the context here for anyone who hasn't

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Speaker 2: been following. What are the charges here and what are

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Speaker 2: the details of the lawsuit?

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Speaker 3: Hey, thank you so much for having me so an

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Speaker 3: unnamed victim of Jeffrey Epstein's food JP Morgan the biggest

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Speaker 3: us thank late last year alleging, as you said, that

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Speaker 3: it knowingly benefited from Epstein's sex trafficking. So Epstein was

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Speaker 3: a client of JP Morgan from the late nineties until

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Speaker 3: twenty thirteen. Now, remember Jeffrey Epstein was you know, indicted

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Speaker 3: in Florida in two thousand and six, and you know,

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Speaker 3: then again arrested in twenty nineteen and went to jail

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Speaker 3: and that's where he died. So this was coming up,

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Speaker 3: you know, really a couple of years after that, it

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Speaker 3: as far as like ties to Epstein And can you help.

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Speaker 2: Me contextualize the number here? Two hundred and ninety million.

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Speaker 2: Is that a drop in the bucket for JP Morgan?

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Speaker 2: How does that square for them?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean they've they've been fined, you know, I think

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Speaker 3: they paid something like nine hundred million to settle hooping

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Speaker 3: But yet they paid two hundred and fifty million a

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Speaker 3: probe about, you know, communicating with clients on on unauthorized channels.

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Speaker 3: So that would be the one the closest kind of

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Speaker 2: And so what does the the payout tell us in

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Speaker 2: terms of JP Morgan's accountability here? And what are what's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so what we reported citing sources is that the

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Speaker 3: bank is not making admissions of liability as part of

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Speaker 3: the settlement. So that's, you know, what we're expecting to

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Speaker 3: be the line from from them. And they've been fighting

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Speaker 3: over their types to Epstein, you know, pretty vigorously. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: I would say that's you know, Jamie Diamond himself, the

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Speaker 3: part of this. He's said repeatedly that he never met

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Speaker 3: But he's said that, you know, their hard squat victims

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Speaker 3: the fact that they settled with the victims is not

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Speaker 2: And you mentioned some other lawsuits, including the one by

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Speaker 2: Epstein and brought several of his victims previously. Can you

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Speaker 2: tell me anything that we might know about that lawsuit

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So that one's ongoing. It was filed around the

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Speaker 2: And that's kind of unprecedented, right, that's a pretty big

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So Deutsche Bank actually settled with so when Epstein

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Speaker 2: So beyond Deutsche Bank, though, we think that is that

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, So the two banks that have really been

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Speaker 2: do we anticipate any pushback from that lack of admission

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Speaker 2: the the Epstein ongoing saga as a whole.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's a great question. I've been like

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Speaker 3: it's been six months of just you know, the drip

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Speaker 2: Well, and speaking of kind of your other reporting when

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I had a story out today about Mary Erdos,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there are a ton I think the

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Speaker 3: So we're looking at, you know, a lot of a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just reading your story. One of the quotes

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Speaker 2: This is Bloomberg Law. I'm Madison Mills in for June Grasso.

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Speaker 2: This week big acquisition news today, Nasdaq has agreed to

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Speaker 2: buy financial software maker Adenza from its private equity owner

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Speaker 2: and the US exchange operator's biggest ever deal. We're talking

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Speaker 2: ten and a half billion dollars. So Kat Doherty is

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Speaker 2: here with me to discuss. She's a Bloomberg News finance reporter. Kat,

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Speaker 2: great to speak with you. Talk to me about what

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Speaker 4: Well, everyone is talking about the size. Yes, it is

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Speaker 4: Nasdaq's would be biggest deal should it pass regulatory approval,

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Speaker 4: which they are expecting will come within six to nine months.

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Speaker 4: But the cost of this is not nothing. They're paying

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Speaker 4: for it with a combination of cash inequity. Toma Bravo,

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Speaker 4: the owner of Adenza, is going to be taking a

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Speaker 4: nearly fifteen percent steak in Nasdaq. That's going to be

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Speaker 4: So that's something to look out for and I think

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Speaker 4: And also they get a board seat. So there's a

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Speaker 4: lot of collaboration cross collaboration between Toma, Bravo and Nasdaq,

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Speaker 4: which is not unusual to see some pretty big players

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Speaker 4: but we haven't seen anything that kind of matches it

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Speaker 4: debt that they're going to have to take on. They're

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Speaker 4: issuing some debt to pay for this acquisition. That's going

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Speaker 4: to increase their leverage. Now, they've taken on debt and

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Speaker 4: increase leverage before in previous acquisitions, and they've proven that

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Speaker 4: they can take down that leverage over time and through

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Speaker 4: cost synergies and using cash that they generate from these

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Speaker 4: deals to pay down debt. But that's still a question.

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Speaker 4: It's not necessarily a guarantee. So those are some of

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Speaker 4: the things that people are thinking about with this deal.

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Speaker 2: And is the market sense of this deal that it's

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Speaker 2: a little overpriced. Is that why we're seeing a dip

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Speaker 4: Well, it is more, I believe than what Toma Bravo

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Speaker 2: Well, and they're saying that it's potentially a tailwind for

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Speaker 4: So it was interesting today on call with investors. There

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Speaker 4: thought of this question, which was a lot of Denza's

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Speaker 4: asking Nasdaq, is that an issue for this deal? Is

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Speaker 4: their answer to that was no, In fact, this is

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Speaker 4: something that we see as an opportunity. The reason for

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Speaker 4: that being Denza's offerings specific deal with regulatory and risk management.

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Speaker 4: So if banks are facing further or more regulation and

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