January 2026 – Page 2 – Financial Updates

JPMorgan Launches First Tokenized Money-Market Fund on Ethereum

J.P. Morgan Asset Management launched MONY, i...

Structured as a Rule 506(c) private placement...

MONY invests solely in U.S. Treasuries and fu...

The launch makes J.P. Morgan the largest GSIB...

MetLife Acquires PineBridge: $1.2B Deal Creates $734.7B Global Asset Manager

Global M&A Financial Services

MetLife Investment Management has closed its ...

The deal is valued at up to $1.2 billion, inc...

The transaction significantly expands MetLife...

Newly appointed MIM president Brian Funk will...

Private Equity’s Turning Point: Fundraising Crashes, Exits Freeze, LP Pressure Builds

Global Markets Private Equity

Global private equity fundraising has slumped...

Exit activity and distributions remain weak, ...

Dry powder is still elevated but edging down,...

LPs are becoming more selective and fee-sensi...

PWP Acquires Devon Park to Accelerate Growth in GP-Led Secondaries Market

Americas M&A Private Equity

Perella Weinberg Partners agreed to acquire D...

Devon Park’s 15 professionals, led by founder...

The deal accelerates PWP’s push into the fast...

PWP enters this expansion with Q2 2025 revenu...

Cybersecurity M&A 2025: Cloud & Identity Deals, AI Trust & Platform Convergence

Global M&A Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity M&A in 2025 surpassed $84 billi...

Google–Wiz and Palo Alto–CyberArk exemplify m...

Acquisitions like Veeam–Securiti AI and Servi...

Regulatory scrutiny and investor focus on val...

OceanFirst’s New York Expansion: Flushing Deal Aims High with Warburg Backing

Americas M&A Commercial Banking

OceanFirst Financial is acquiring Flushing Fi...

Warburg Pincus will invest $225 million for a...

Management projects strong financial upside b...

Risks center on higher CRE concentration, Flu...

TransDigm Acquires Stellant Systems for $960M to Boost Aerospace-Defense Electronics

Americas M&A Aerospace & Defense

TransDigm will acquire Stellant Systems from ...

Stellant is expected to generate roughly $300...

The deal expands TransDigm into high-power RF...

While initially slightly margin-dilutive and ...

CME Group Poised for Growth: Retail Futures Fuel Strong Returns Amid Risks

Americas Markets Financial Services

CME Group is shifting from an institutional-h...

Retail activity is surging, with about 90,000...

Financial performance is solid, with Q2 2025 ...

Key risks include regulatory scrutiny of leve...

CME Group Outage at Aurora Exposes Single-Point Failure in Market Infrastructure

Americas Markets Financial Services

A cooling-system failure at CyrusOne’s Aurora...

The incident exposed CME’s heavy operational ...

While the timing in thin post-Thanksgiving tr...

In response, CyrusOne added backup cooling an...

Kraken’s $100M Move to Secure U.S. Crypto Derivatives via Small Exchange Acquisition

Americas M&A Financial Services

Kraken is buying CFTC-licensed Small Exchange...

The deal, combined with Kraken’s $1.5 billion...

Kraken aims to offer a unified, fully U.S.-na...

Execution risks remain around regulatory appr...