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Arizent, formerly known as SourceMedia, is a diversified business-to-business digital media company owned by Observer Capital, which acquired the company from Investcorp in August 2014.cite-ref-1[1] Formerly the Thomson Media division of The Thomson Corporation, SourceMedia was spun off and sold by Thomson to Investcorp in 2004 for $350 million.cite-ref-pe-2-0[2]

• Headquarters

• Key brands

• Key executives

• References

Based in New York City, SourceMedia has offices in the Washington suburb of Arlington, Virginia and Atlanta.

In 2009, Investcorp split the company into two, creating Accuity as a semi-autonomous unit within SourceMedia. Accuity was the Registrarcite-ref-3[3] of Routing Numbers for the American Bankers Association, responsible for the assignment of routing numbers for banks in the United States, and was a leading worldwide provider of payment routing data, software and services. In 2011, Accuity was sold to Reed Elsevier for $530 million.cite-ref-pe-2-1[2]

In February 2012, SourceMedia announced the adoption of a new company logo. The company's "new trademark icon depicts an array of screen-shaped pixels assembled in the shape of a three-dimensional hub."cite-ref-logo-4-0[4]

In September 2012, it was reported that Investcorp would be selling the remainder of SourceMedia. In 2014, SourceMedia was sold to Observer Capital.cite-ref-5[5] This is the first major acquisition for Observer Capital, which was founded in 2013 by Joseph Meyer.

The company's key brands include American Banker, The Bond Buyer, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, On Wall Street, Accounting Today, National Mortgage News, Digital Insurance, Health Data Management, and Employee Benefit News.

American Banker is a leading website and newspaper of record for the banking industry; The Bond Buyer, a website and daily newspaper focused exclusively on the municipal bond industry; as well as National Mortgage News, a website and weekly covering the U.S. mortgage industry; and Mergers & Acquisitions, a monthly magazine providing news, commentary and analysis about corporate mergers and acquisitions.cite-ref-6[6]

• Jeff Mancini, CEOcite-ref-7[7]

• Sean Kron, CFOcite-ref-prweb6-15-2018-8-0[8]

• Fell Gray, CMOcite-ref-9[9]

• David Evans, chief content officercite-ref-folio8-12-2008-10-0[10]

• Jeff Mancini, chief strategy officercite-ref-sm-9-12-2018-11-0[11]

• Christian Ward, chief data officercite-ref-sm-9-12-2018-11-1[11]

cite-note-11. ↑ "SourceMedia Announces Acquisition by Observer Capital". PRWeb. Retrieved 2014-08-07.

cite-note-pe-22. ↑ "Investcorp Puts SourceMedia Up for Sale". PE Hub. Retrieved 2012-09-27.

cite-note-33. ↑ Accuity is the Official Registrar of ABA Routing Numbers

cite-note-logo-44. ↑ "SourceMedia Introduces New Logo" (PDF). SourceMedia. Retrieved 2 February 2012.

cite-note-55. ↑ "Publisher of American Banker Is Sold to an Investment Firm". DealBook. Retrieved 2014-09-09.

cite-note-66. ↑ "About Us". American Banker. Retrieved 2024-07-19.

cite-note-77. ↑ "Jeff Mancini assumes Chief Executive Officer role at Arizent". Arizent. 2023-11-15. Retrieved 2024-07-19.

cite-note-prweb6-15-2018-88. ↑ SourceMedia Appoints Sean Kron as CFO

cite-note-99. ↑ "Fell Gray is named as Chief Marketing Officer at Arizent". Arizent. 2024-02-01. Retrieved 2024-07-19.

cite-note-folio8-12-2008-1010. ↑ Radical Reorganization at Source Media

cite-note-sm-9-12-2018-1111. ↑ SourceMedia Names Jeff Mancini as Chief Strategy Officer and Christian Ward as Chief Data Officer