Hints and tips:
...Former Barclays boss Bob Diamond will be appointed chair of social media start-up Triller after financial services platform AGBA, of which he has been chair since September, agreed an all-share takeover...
...Currys’ market capitalisation of about £750mn could make it a tempting target given that it appears to be trading at a discount to the sum of its various businesses....
...Looking back at the explosive private equity phenomenon it is striking how far it has helped alter the structure of the global capital markets....
...In legalese, they showed that PDVSA was an alter ego (literally, “another self”) of Venezuela....
...The pursuit of a bigger share has become central to Arm’s strategy, and to the $65bn valuation the company achieved on its first day of trading on Thursday....
...of customer assets and trading in listed tokens as “market makers”....
...kadhim@ft.com / sid.v@ft.com...
...Steve Rendle has stepped down as CEO and chair of VF Corp, the clothing group behind The North Face. Benno Dorer, the lead independent director of its board, will take his place in the interim....
...Stablecoins are intended to be a bridge between traditional and digital money, and aim to help manage volatility during crypto market trading....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...The group said on Thursday it would combine with Concord Acquisition Corp and list on the New York Stock Exchange....
...A ban on listing the shares of Russian state-owned entities on EU trading venues....
...And Ginnie does not have to alter anything in response to the “input”....
...Users on Reddit board WallStreetBets with “diamond hands” say they are ready to buy more GameStop shares regardless of fundamentals. Most investors need more incentive than that....
...EToro, which has more than 20m registered users, will combine with Fintech Acquisition Corp V, the special purpose acquisition company set up by banking tycoon Betsy Cohen, in one of the largest Spac deals...
...He was previously a managing partner at Deloitte’s financial services advisory in London....
...Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of Fortnite items were trading on eBay, Sixgill also found....
...(Forbes) Anna v Andrea It’s one of those boardroom battles that has captivated the global industry....
...Meanwhile, a boom in first-quarter trading revenues for investment banks will probably only provide a short-term fillip....
...The rogue trader was a local hire in charge of crude oil transactions with China at a Mitsubishi subsidiary called Petro-Diamond Singapore....
...applies for French residency & @aarronbanks spends half his time in S African diamond mines....
...Media veteran Spencer Neumann has been hired at Netflix to become the streaming service’s new finance chief....
...Corp bonds QE has been done before (they hold £10bn) still a potential route if credit mkts do seize up down the line....
...Britain’s National Health Service “saves his life at least once a month”, he writes....
...The pact for Charter, which had a market value of $101bn as of the close of trading on Friday, would dramatically alter the telecoms and cable landscape in the US and deepen Softbank chief Masayoshi Son’...
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