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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....
...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....
...The group was boosted by franchises such as The Hunger Games and Twilight films in the 2000s....
...Guggenheim shocked the baseball world by paying a then-record $2.15bn sum for a Major League franchise....
...It has also been underscored by rising valuations in MLS teams and expansion franchises....
...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...
...Bids have reached the second round; Winslow said the Bay Area franchise’s expansion fee is “the benchmark from here”. Is the league profitable?...
...Jordan agreed to pay a fee of at least $40,000 for each location he planned to open, according to franchise agreements reviewed by the Financial Times....
...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...
...When the business introduced a franchise model eight years later, Kraft acquired the exclusive licence for Sotheby’s International Realty France-Monaco....
...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....
...Unfortunate then for Google Cloud’s Head of Fintech to accidentally claim credit for the international crime and terrorist organisation that features in the James Bond franchise....
...Middle-market buyout firms and companies securitising everything from pharmaceutical royalties to restaurant franchises now turn to the lending businesses of Blackstone Group, Apollo Global Management and...
...“The dominant tech franchises in 10 years will be very different from the platforms we all know today,” said Koch....
...Still, Endeavor plans to double down on UFC, using some of the IPO proceeds — as well as its own equity — to buy the 49.9 per cent of the franchise that it does not already own....
...Harris made a name for himself at Apollo’s buyout franchise — a business that has rarely looked stronger....
...Games chief Jade Raymond, who joined from Ubisoft where she had led development of the Assassin’s Creed hit franchise, has quit and her studios in Montreal and Los Angeles will close....
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