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US consumer finance watchdog raises alarm over credit card megadeals

...The top US consumer finance watchdog has raised doubts about megamergers in the credit card industry, just as Capital One attempts to close its $35.3bn takeover of card issuer Discover Financial Services...

April 24, 2024

Apollo Global Management LLC

Apollo sells stake in asset-backed lending unit to insurer MassMutual

...Within weeks, a US regional banking crisis spurred a panic that ultimately contributed to Credit Suisse’s weekend takeover by UBS....

April 24, 2024

FT Live

US Decarbonization and Industrial Transition Summit

Securing the resources to build and finance America's clean energy future

Exchange traded funds

Cathie Wood takes her Ark ETFs to Europe as US investors jump ship

...The migration to Europe comes as Ark has lost market share in the $8.9tn US ETF market over the past 12 months....

April 17, 2024

Grant Thornton LLP

Grant Thornton’s retired US partners demand bigger payout from private equity sale

...Grant Thornton’s retired US partners are demanding a greater share of the spoils from its sale of a majority stake to private equity, after accusing the accounting firm’s management of short-changing them...

March 29, 2024

Grant Thornton LLP

Grant Thornton retirees escalate revolt over private equity deal

...a $1bn investment by Hellman & Friedman in Baker Tilly US, another top 10 firm....

April 11, 2024

Goldman Sachs Group

Top Goldman Sachs executive quits for hedge fund Millennium

Izzy Englander poaches latest partner from Wall Street bank, where David Solomon faces fresh unrest

April 11, 2024

FT Live

US Pharma and Biotech Summit

Strategies for innovation, pricing and access

Google LLC

Google considers charging for AI-powered search in big change to business model

Proposals would mark first time any of the software group’s core product falls behind a paywall

April 3, 2024

Grant Thornton LLP

Grant Thornton US sells majority stake to private equity

...The US arm of accounting firm Grant Thornton has agreed to sell a majority stake to the investment group New Mountain Capital, in the largest of a wave of private equity deals that are reshaping the sector...

March 15, 2024

Trading technology

Citadel Securities moves data and algorithm testing to Google Cloud

...The US group has moved information that its quantitative researchers use for all markets, including stocks, derivatives, bonds and currencies....

April 9, 2024

New York Stock Exchange LLC

New York Stock Exchange tests views on round-the-clock trading

...Stock exchanges have become something of a laggard in a world where other big markets, including US Treasuries, major currencies and leading stock index futures, can be traded around the clock from Monday...

April 22, 2024

The Art Market

Marlborough Gallery to close as tougher times bite

...In an Instagram post on March 29, they wrote: “Faced with a challenging economic landscape, we have decided to call time before it is called on us.”...

April 4, 2024

Google LLC

Google streamlines structure to speed up AI efforts

...“It will help us turbocharge the Android and Chrome ecosystems, bring the best innovations to partners faster . . . and internally, it will also speed up decision making.”...

April 18, 2024

Centerview Partners LLC

Ex-Centerview banker did not clinch partner deal at meeting, US court rules

Decision hurts David Handler’s chances of securing potentially millions of dollars in equity he sought from the elite M&A boutique

April 23, 2024

Energy sector

Commodity traders bet on big data and AI

...“The prolific growth of the data that’s becoming available to us is literally making us better-informed investors.”...

April 21, 2024

Jane Street Capital

Jane Street loses bid for restraining order against Millennium

...Founded in 2000, Jane Street has grown into an increasingly powerful trading firm and market maker for the $8.9tn US exchange traded fund industry....

April 19, 2024

FT Live

Due Diligence Live

Where leaders in investment and finance meet

Trump Media & Technology Group

Ken Griffin’s trading firm blasts Trump Media boss as ‘loser’

...Naked short sales have been banned in the US since 2005. G1 declined to comment. Virtu and Jane Street did not immediately respond to requests for comment....

April 19, 2024

Paramount Global

Sony and Apollo discuss teaming up to bid for Paramount Global

...US private equity group Apollo Global is in discussions with Sony Pictures Entertainment about making a joint takeover bid for Paramount Global that would rival ongoing talks between controlling shareholder...

April 19, 2024

LexEndeavor

Endeavor’s deal is a fitting end to a sorry show Premium

Ordinary shareholders could feel like faceless extras in the entertainment group’s go-private sale

April 3, 2024

LexMergers & Acquisitions

Dealmakers beware: US antitrust enforcers wade into workers’ rights Premium

...A new front has opened up in US trustbusters’ fight against mergers: workers’ rights....

March 12, 2024

Inside BusinessSujeet Indap

Apollo back under scrutiny over expenses scandal

...In his ruling, Castel said that Apollo’s accounting department “deserve[d] significant blame” for the harm done to fund investors but still ruled that Rashid had violated US securities law on investment...

March 27, 2024

Due Diligence

Apollo’s expense scandal gets another day in court Premium

...But earlier this month, the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals bought Rashid’s theory and reversed the lower court judgment....

March 28, 2024

Driverless vehicles

China challenges the west for driverless car supremacy

...China started commercial driverless development in 2013, about five years after groups in the US....

January 31, 2024

FT Alphaville

Doug Cifu has let FT Alphaville down

...Virtu’s CEO Doug Cifu made us a promise last year, when we wrote about how 2022 had seen a record amount of CEO swearing on conference calls....

March 13, 2024

Unhedged

Dealing with the dividends doubters Premium

...Yes, dividend culture has declined in the US, but it is still, by some distance, the world’s most vibrant equity market. That’s the second pushback: why are you complaining about the US growth market?...

February 21, 2024

Football

Google DeepMind unveils AI football tactics coach honed with Liverpool

...The US National Football League and Amazon Web Services have developed a player health tool known as the Digital Athlete, which they hope may in time be able to predict and prevent injuries....

March 19, 2024

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