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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...
...Billionaire Rob Walton, heir to the Walmart retail fortune, acquired the NFL franchise for $4.6bn....
...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....
...In a statement last week, the jointly owned company that gave the world Pikachu and controls our planet’s most valuable media franchise snarled that it had received “many inquiries regarding another company...
...If you want to own a company with a solid franchise and a little bit of expected growth — Waste Management or UnitedHealth or Marriott — you are going to pay up....
...Guggenheim shocked the baseball world by paying a then-record $2.15bn sum for a Major League franchise....
...Its successful Street Fighter franchise, a martial arts tournament game launched in 1987, means it merits more attention. Capcom has something new in its arsenal....
...But we did see one monster move, with the news that Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton has signed up with Ferrari from the 2025 season....
...states that the following will be considered non-human: “(i) Toys representing animals or non-human creatures even if possessing predominantly human physical characteristics (e.g. angels, robots, devils, monsters...
...It has also been underscored by rising valuations in MLS teams and expansion franchises....
...Oh yes, a character can be a brand, a brand can be a franchise. Batman can open a picture with half-a-dozen various actors in the suit....
...SVB Financial bought the healthcare-focused advisory business for $280mn in 2019 as it tried to bolster its growing investment banking franchise....
...Citadel’s Cariste acknowledged the market for high-yield credit was “less electronified and more idiosyncratic, so it requires some further refinement in how we’re leveraging our existing 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...
...Gone is the turn-based combat the franchise is traditionally known for; in its place is action-oriented hacking and slashing, perfect for a tale that revels in the anger of its protagonist, and even finds...
...In an expansion, the monster techs use cheap capital to scale like mad....
...Bids have reached the second round; Winslow said the Bay Area franchise’s expansion fee is “the benchmark from here”. Is the league profitable?...
...In February, amid fevered speculation about a monster bid from Qatar, it shot up as high as almost $27 a share....
...Meanwhile, his “Frankenstein’s monster” began to consume him....
...In most of the world, these have state-awarded franchises to create, distribute and regulate money....
...He may be a witcher (the franchise’s term for a monster slayer), but he is better thought of as a detective: a man of facts in a world whose senseless wars lay waste to common people, custom and the land...
...Nevertheless, with previous D&D screen ventures mostly forgotten, Honour Among Thieves represents that rare thing: a new big-budget Hollywood franchise built almost from scratch....
...But she finds a new career: conducting live performances of the soundtrack to the video game Monster Hunter. It is not a happy ending....
...“The idea is to create a big boutique, two to three times the size of the next largest, but with the firepower of the monster investment banks,” says a person involved in planning the restructuring....
...But the fact is, films have been so dominated by these big franchises....
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