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  • Finance

    Payments fintech Square said it has no plans to buy more bitcoin for its corporate treasuries, after losing $20m on…

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  • Finance

    The deal-making company set up by former Standard Life Aberdeen co-chief executive Martin Gilbert has made its first outright acquisition, agreeing…

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  • Tech

    Benson Hill Inc. is going public by merging with a special-purpose acquisition company in a deal that values the plant-growing…

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  • Finance

    Activist investor Sherborne Investors has sold its entire stake in Barclays, ending a three-year battle with the UK lender’s chief…

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  • Finance

    A boutique advisor set up by the former head of European investment banking at Jefferies four years ago, is opening…

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  • Finance

    City broker Numis more than doubled investment banking fees in the first half of its fiscal year as UK initial…

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  • Tech

    Dell Technologies Inc. DELL -1.67% struck a deal to sell its Boomi cloud business to private-equity firms Francisco Partners and…

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  • Finance

    The boom in so-called blank cheque companies could finally come to the City, as the UK’s financial watchdog has proposed…

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  • Market

    Endeavor Group Holdings Inc., the Los Angeles–based entertainment powerhouse and owner of the William Morris Agency, sports and modeling agency IMG…

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  • Finance

    Deutsche Bank’s investment bank fuelled its best quarterly profit in seven years as the German lender reaped the benefits of…

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  • Finance

    Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, suffered net outflows of almost €13bn during the first three months of the year, as…

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  • Market

    Lyft Inc. is selling its autonomous-vehicle division to a Toyota TM, -0.94% subsidiary for $550 million in cash, calling the…

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  • Entrepreneurs

    Standard Industries co-CEOs David Millstone and David Winter Michael Prince for Forbes For nearly six months, Standard Industries co-CEOs David…

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  • Finance

    NN Group, the Dutch insurer, has announced it is “reviewing strategic options” for its investment management business, paving the way…

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  • Market

    After posting record sales and profits in its latest fiscal year, Apple Inc. is expected to show how much of…

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  • Finance

    When some of the world’s largest investment banks help a controversial fund manager make numerous large leveraged bets less than…

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  • Health

    For all the talk of a transition away from fossil fuels, players in the energy sector are still willing to…

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  • Finance

    More than 50 years after Apollo 11 put astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, a new age of…

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  • Finance

    Oatly has formally filed paperwork Monday for an initial public offering in the US, nine months after private-equity giant Blackstone…

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  • Finance

    Citigroup’s leading position advising on so-called blank cheque companies helped to bolster investment banking fees to record levels during the first quarter.…

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  • Finance

    Investors are cooling to one of the hottest bets on Wall Street as new regulatory scrutiny of special-purpose acquisition companies…

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  • Market

    TuSimple has raised $1.08 billion in an IPO after the autonomous trucking rival to Tesla and Google priced shares above…

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  • Finance

    WASHINGTON—Some special-purpose acquisition companies have improperly accounted for warrants sold or given to investors, securities regulators said on 12 April,…

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  • Entrepreneurs

    The deal could give Microsoft advantages in AI, health tech and beyond. Grow Your Business, Not Your Inbox Stay informed…

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  • Finance

    Ameriprise Financial, the parent company Columbia Threadneedle, has acquired the European asset management business of BMO Financial Group for £615m —…

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  • Finance

    Ardian, one of Europe’s biggest private-equity firms, has wrapped up fundraising for its largest-ever buyout vehicle and plans to invest…

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  • Finance

    Deutsche Bank is bolstering its Spac expertise in Europe, as large investment banks in the City look to capitalise on the…

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  • Finance

    Atom Bank has held discussions with financial advisers about whether it might go public via a Spac, as the UK…

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  • Market

    The S&P 500 index SPX, +0.27% keeps hitting record highs. That itself might not be alarming — a strong stock…

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  • Market

    Impossible Foods Inc. is prepping for an initial public offering that could value the maker of plant-based burgers at about…

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  • Finance

    HSBC is shifting a senior dealmaker from Asia to the UK to focus on developing closer links between its investment…

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  • Finance

    Societe Generale, the French bank, has entered exclusive talks with Amundi to strike a deal for its asset management business…

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  • Market

    Kimbal Musk, Elon’s younger brother, made more than $7 million trading Tesla Inc.’s stock, as he acquired shares through options…

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  • Finance

    GameStop said it could raise hundreds of millions of dollars from stock sales in the coming months, as the videogame retailer…

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  • Finance

    The fallout from the Archegos Capital Management fire sale could force Credit Suisse to suspend its planned $1.6bn share buyback programme…

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  • Finance

    The Financial Conduct Authority will launch a consultation on strengthening investor protections in special acquisitions companies, a financial vehicle whose…

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  • Finance

    British online car retailer Cazoo is the latest company to announce a listing on the New York Stock Exchange by…

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  • Finance

    The US Securities and Exchange Commission is set to investigate the recent spike in special acquisition purpose companies listing on…

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  • Finance

    A merger between the UK’s two leading crowdfunding platforms Crowdcube and Seedrs could result in a “substantial lessening of competition”…

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  • Finance

    Sir Martin Sorrell, the advertising mogul who has built his business empire through shell companies, says blank-cheque vehicles are too expensive to…

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  • Entrepreneurs

    Discord might go public instead of selling. Grow Your Business, Not Your Inbox Stay informed and join our daily newsletter…

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  • Finance

    Nomura has hired a senior dealmaker to lead its technology, media and services coverage in Europe, as the Japanese bank…

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  • Finance

    The significance of Brexit as a key risk for global dealmaking is dropping rapidly, as the pandemic and related preventative…

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  • Finance

    The “exuberance” surrounding the boom in so-called blank cheque companies is likely to be replaced with “discipline” in the future…

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  • Market

    Mission Produce Inc. AVO, -1.24% is heading into the mango business, and the company is confident it can make the…

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  • Finance

    Popular online brokerage eToro announced that it would merge with blank cheque company FinTech Acquisition Corp V in a $10.4bn…

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  • Finance

    It is easy to be sniffy about Spacs. Shell companies have been a favourite vehicle of spivs and charlatans for…

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  • Finance

    Ewan Kirk, founder of the Cantab Capital Partners hedge fund business which was bought by GAM in 2016, is leaving…

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  • Market

    Renault sold its stake in rival auto giant Daimler on Friday, injecting cash into the company’s strategy for a multiyear…

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  • Market

    Lordstown Motors Corp. stock fell nearly 20% on Friday after short seller Hindenburg Research published a report on the electric-truck…

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