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...Citi’s chief executive Jane Fraser said in a note to employees that London-based Verme was “a true titan of our industry and a selfless mentor to many of us”....
...At the moment, the retail titan mainly sells ads on its websites, apps and self-checkout screens in stores....
...-The DD team In today’s newsletter: Banks chase after private credit Japanese financial titans square off This Thanksgiving, banks were thankful for private credit Find someone who loves you like banks...
...The ambition behind the Lehman purchase had been for Nomura to compete with the “bulge bracket” giants JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, as a titan of global investment banking....
...News round-up FTC lawsuit targets serial acquisitions by private equity (FT) Venture firm GGV Capital to split off China business after US pressure (FT) Magellan Midstream holders approve $18.8bn sale...
...When the alternatives titans got intrigued by the idea of a tie-up, they proved unwilling to give BlackRock the majority control it wanted. Global Infrastructure Partners was different....
...And in 2021, Restaurant Brands paid $1bn in cash for Firehouse Subs....
...Bloomberg) Fund managers urge European regulators to mirror US move to T+1 (FT) Thomas Cook owner Fosun to sell brand to Poland’s eSky (SKY News) UK government vows to protect litigation funding that helped sub-postmasters...
...And I do enjoy a clash-of-the-titans psychodrama as much as anyone....
...Wall Street titans target their former universities For decades, Ivy League universities have courted the deep-pocketed financiers that once roamed their halls to feed their multibillion-dollar endowments...
...The software titan believes it can press its legal case sooner and that it will prevail in court....
...The company said it would disband its mergers and acquisitions committee, signalling further austerity....
...The New Jersey pharmaceutical titan’s share price has doubled in the past five years, well ahead of the wider S&P 500 index....
...The TSE’s ambitions are not just meant for the worst-run Japanese companies, those with a sub-1 price/book ratio....
...Most successful or promising treatments are acquired by cash-rich titans, which are allocators of capital more than keen innovators....
...Now, many of the same titans of media and finance who joined the party and poured about $1.5bn into Vice over the years — the Murdochs, Disney’s Bob Iger, Sir Martin Sorrell and others — have been left with...
...Other media titans have discovered that the direct-to-consumer content business is not only expensive but also a smaller market than hoped....
...Losers of the Vice bankruptcy include titans of media and finance — the Murdochs, Bob Iger of Disney, Sir Martin Sorrell, and others — whose companies or former companies combined poured about $1.5bn into...
...“It’s one of the larger acquisitions we have done,” said Larry Mestel, chief executive of Primary Wave, which is managing the $2bn Brookfield-funded investment vehicle....
...Now with the Elliott bid out in the open, AEL and its $70bn of assets are in the crosshairs as a clutch of Wall Street investment titans circle the company....
...Really briefly, I’ll say that you’ll see us leaning heavily into the expansion of D&D through D&D Beyond, the acquisition that we did that closed this past May....
...The New York-listed company had been spun out in 2014 from the mall titan Simon Property Group....
...Shareholders of Activision Blizzard are the putative winners of the largest acquisition by a technology company in history. Yet they will probably remain disappointed....
...Like Activision Blizzard and Zynga, the next acquisition target is likely to have an impressive library of game titles. Step forward Electronic Arts....
...The latest computing advances from the tech titans could create further efficiencies....
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