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AI Funding Soars: $20B xAI Raise & $250M Merge Labs Seed Signal Big Trends

xAI raised $20B in an oversubscribed Series E...

Merge Labs raised a $250M seed at an $850M va...

Global AI funding hit about $202B in 2025, wi...

With the U.S. drawing ~79% of capital, infras...

South Korea Doubles Down: Public Venture Funding to Fuel Next-Gen Unicorns in AI & Deep Tech

Asia Policy Other Investment Pools and Funds

South Korea will boost 2026 venture financing...

The “Next-Generation Unicorn” program unifies...

Policy leans on crowding in private and regio...

To improve exits and capital recycling, f120B...

2025 Explosion in Defense-Tech VC: Why Autonomous Systems & AI Manufacturing Are Winning Big

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Defense-tech startups hit a funding record in...

Equity funding more than doubled to $17.9B, l...

Investors concentrated on AI, autonomy, drone...

Exits jumped to $54.4B, mostly via acquisitio...

ASPEN Lux: Adams Street’s Global Evergreen PE Fund Expands Access for Non-US Investors

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Adams Street launched ASPEN Lux, a Luxembourg...

The fund offers monthly subscriptions and qua...

ASPEN Lux broadly mirrors the U.S. ASPEN Prog...

Key risks and suitability considerations incl...

Big Profits and Mixed Outcomes: Q4 2025 U.S. Investment Banking Trends

Americas Markets Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley posted sharp...

Goldman’s investment-banking fees rose 25% to...

Morgan Stanley’s investment-banking revenue j...

Elsewhere, Citigroup’s advisory and underwrit...

What’s Fueling the IPO Market Rebound—Drivers, Shifts & Success Strategies

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

In 2025, global IPO and equity-capital-market...

Investor demand concentrated in high-growth t...

Asia-Pacific took the lead—especially Greater...

Successful listings now require credible scal...

Kenya to float 65% of Pipeline Co via IPO at Ksh 9/share in major sell-off

Global Markets Pipeline Transportation

Kenya is floating 65% of Kenya Pipeline Compa...

Shares are allocated across retail, instituti...

KPC reported FY2024/25 revenue of about Ksh 3...

The deal is part of Kenya’s push to fund infr...

India’s 2025 IPO Boom: HDB Financial, Meesho & NBFCs Redefine Investor Trends

Asia Markets Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

India’s 2025 IPO boom is led by large NBFC an...

HDB Financial Services’ ₹12,500-crore IPO was...

Meesho’s ~$606 million IPO surged ~95% post-i...

Several mega-IPOs, including Tata Capital and...

How AI Is Reshaping Banking Jobs: Cuts, Efficiency & Stringent Hiring by 2030

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Big banks are growing AI hiring even as overa...

In Europe, AI and digitalisation could cut ~2...

Applicant volumes are surging while hiring is...

Banks are replacing fewer leavers and using A...

How 2025 Redefined Finance: M&A Surge, IPO Mega-Cycle & AI’s Boardroom Takeover

Global Forecast Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

2025 M&A value jumped roughly 40–50% to about...

Deal counts fell, signaling fewer but larger,...

2026 could usher in an IPO “mega-cycle” as sc...

AI is becoming a horizontal disruptor, drivin...