{"id":66155,"date":"2018-10-12T00:03:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T04:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=66155"},"modified":"2018-10-12T00:01:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T04:01:10","slug":"mitek-rebuffs-elliott-backed-asgs-takeover-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2018\/mitek-rebuffs-elliott-backed-asgs-takeover-approach.html","title":{"rendered":"Mitek Rebuffs Elliott-backed ASG&#8217;s Takeover Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) Mitek Systems Inc, a U.S. provider of financial technology to banks, has rejected a takeover approach from hedge fund Elliott Management Corp\u2019s software company ASG Technologies, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. ASG Technologies\u2019 bid comes at a time of uncertainty for Mitek, which said in August that both Chief Executive Officer Jim DeBello and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Davison were stepping down to either retire or pursue other roles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/us-mitek-m-a-asg-exclusive\/exclusive-mitek-rebuffs-elliott-backed-asgs-takeover-approach-sources-idUKKCN1MK24T\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Mitek Systems Inc, a U.S. provider of financial technology to banks, has rejected a takeover approach from hedge fund Elliott Management Corp\u2019s software company ASG Technologies, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. ASG Technologies\u2019 bid comes at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66156,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66155\/revisions\/66156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}