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...“We have built a leading global franchise in US rates products, and Euro rates is a logical next step,” Peng Zhao, chief executive of Citadel Securities, told the Financial Times on the sidelines of an investment...
...A tie-up would combine Sony’s film franchises including Ghostbusters and Uncharted, with Paramount, which has had recent hits such as Mean Girls and Bob Marley: One Love....
...That said, we’re not investing here; we’re just trying to hear what markets are telling us....
...Guggenheim shocked the baseball world by paying a then-record $2.15bn sum for a Major League franchise....
...The group was boosted by franchises such as The Hunger Games and Twilight films in the 2000s....
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...It has also been underscored by rising valuations in MLS teams and expansion franchises....
...The business, which is widely viewed as heading for a public listing, handles about one in four US stock trades....
...SVB Financial bought the healthcare-focused advisory business for $280mn in 2019 as it tried to bolster its growing investment banking franchise....
...cut deeper into junk status by S&P Global (FT) AI start-up Anthropic raises $450mn from Google and Spark Capital (FT) Wagamama owner suffers shareholder revolt over pay and appointments (FT) HSBC/SVB: franchise...
...The team will be based in the Bay Area and is to be the first US pro-sports franchise majority owned by private capital, an almost unthinkable concept even four years ago when Major League Baseball broke...
...“It doesn’t need to be as big as it is,” said one person whose company has staked millions of dollars on F45’s US expansion. “It was risky growth.”...
...The firm has hired Paul Russo, who had previously worked as global chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs’s equities franchise until 2018, as head of risk management for equities, the people said....
...Apple and Facebook are thoroughly global consumer tech companies, one built around a dominant hardware franchise, the other around advertising against a no-longer-dominant but still immense social network...
...Aston Martin puts a new driver in the hot seat The hardest part of keeping the James Bond franchise alive is changing the lead....
...Hult has been the driving force behind many of Tradeweb’s most successful US businesses, including the mortgage and Treasury franchises....
...Since then Ravitch has worked on deals involving more than 20 teams across different sports, including Joe Tsai’s Brooklyn Nets, David Beckham’s Inter Miami and Steve Ballmer’s Clippers basketball franchise...
...The company, owned by Comcast, has held the US rights to the Games since the summer Olympics in 1988 — a lucrative franchise that has raked in billions of dollars in advertising over the years....
...(New York Times) Lina Khan A look at how the 32-year-old head of the US Federal Trade Commission is consolidating power at the agency to take on Big Tech....
...“The dominant tech franchises in 10 years will be very different from the platforms we all know today,” said Koch....
...Elon Musk, the Tesla chief executive whose fractious relationship with Wall Street has sometimes brought him into conflict with US securities regulators, is to join the entertainment group’s board....
...Harris made a name for himself at Apollo’s buyout franchise — a business that has rarely looked stronger....
...Meanwhile, Uber has agreed to acquire the largest US alcohol-delivery app Drizly for about $1.1bn. 3....
...US sport: the New York Yankees and the Dallas Cowboys....
...[and] augment our franchise in ways perhaps unexpected.”...
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