Viewsroom: Jack Dorsey takes a trip Down Under
Square’s $29 bln takeover of Aussie fintech darling Afterpay shines a light on the “buy now, pay later” craze, which poses a big challenge to many established players in the banking and payments busin...
5 Aug 202111min
Viewsroom: Climate transition, Chinese stocks
Some of the biggest investors, including Brookfield and TPG, are launching mega-funds to invest in the global transition to a net-zero economy in what could be the ultimate new asset class. Richard Be...
29 Jul 202118min
Viewsroom: Olympic blunders and Robinhood’s IPO
The Tokyo games are struggling with rising Covid-19 infections, corporations pulling out, an unenthused Japanese public and now a bad Holocaust joke. Pete Sweeney and Rob Cox discuss. Meantime, John F...
22 Jul 202121min
Viewsroom: Finance’s first-rate second quarter
Earnings of Wall Street’s largest banks confirmed that animal spirits among corporate chiefs and global investors are running high, while pandemic-shy consumers are getting their mojo back. John Foley...
15 Jul 202115min
Viewsroom: Grocer buyouts, More China crackdowns
Why are private equity firms clogging the aisles at Britain’s WM Morrison to pull off a near-$9 billion purchase of the supermarket chain? Aimee Donnellan and Peter Thal Larsen explain. And our Asia c...
8 Jul 202125min
Viewsroom: Communist birthday, Little guys in IPOs
China’s Communist Party turns 100. The institution has never been so popular at home or resented abroad. Its leaders are experts at the nuances of control and long on ambition, Pete Sweeney says. Plus...
1 Jul 202120min
Viewsroom: Wall Street is open again and booming
From Morgan Stanley to BlackRock, the world’s top investment banks and money managers are back in their offices and super busy with mergers, IPOs, LBOs and other activities thumping. Plus, Soho House ...
24 Jun 202134min
Viewsroom: Private equity gets funky, HK hiring
Blackstone, KKR, Carlyle and other firms are flipping the leveraged buyout playbook with deals that, while less dependent on debt, don’t always add up for their backers. Meanwhile, investment banking ...
10 Jun 202125min
