Matt Levine, Columnist

Banks Get Distracted by the World Cup

Also best ideas, op-risk cat bonds and unicorn valuations.

June 14, 2018 at 2:50 PM UTC

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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World Cup predictions.

The World Cup kicks off today, minutes after this newsletter publishes, which means that there will be no finance news for the next month. That will make this newsletter a bit of a slog, sorry.