Finance Updates – Page 12 – Finance Updates

Türkiye’s 2025 Startup Surge: Why Fintech & Gaming Captured 68% of Investment

Tfcrkiye startups raised about $589 million a...

AI led deal count (~81 rounds, ~25%) but attr...

Late-stage funding effectively disappeared as...

Investment was highly concentrated as seven s...

Why CAPTCHA-Style Checks Disrupt Access: What Triggers Bloomberg’s Verification Barriers

Global FYI Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals

Bloomberg triggers a “unusual activity” block...

Users must pass a CAPTCHA-style check that re...

Common triggers include VPNs/proxies, shared ...

The system helps deter bots and scraping but ...

Is Social Leverage’s Reported $85M Seed Fund Real? Latest Verification

Americas Firms Other Investment Pools and Funds

No credible public evidence confirms Social L...

The Substack claim is not corroborated by Soc...

If an $85M fund exists, it would be smaller t...

Key unknowns are the close date, LP roster, s...

New Mountain Capital Raises $1.2B for SEF II, Targets Minority Stakes in Defensive Growth

Americas Firms Other Investment Pools and Funds

New Mountain Capital closed Strategic Equity ...

The fund includes over $150M of GP commitment...

SEF II targets minority, non-control stakes i...

The raise builds on 2020’s ~$640M SEF I and s...

Wall Street Q4 2025 Earnings: Morgan Stanley Shines as Regulatory Risks Mount

Americas Firms Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

Morgan Stanley beat Q4 estimates with EPS of ...

Goldman Sachs also topped expectations, posti...

Across big banks, dealmaking and equity marke...

A DOJ criminal probe into Fed Chair Jerome Po...

Goldman Sachs Q4 2025 Earnings Surge 12% Amid Strong Trading & Investment Banking

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Goldman Sachs Q4 2025 profit rose 12% to $4.6...

Investment-banking fees jumped 25% on stronge...

Full-year 2025 results strengthened across gl...

The bank raised its quarterly dividend to $4....

Cooling Growth & Credit Clampdown: What’s Next for S&P, Banks, and Borrowers

Americas Markets Depository Credit Intermediation

FactSet projects S&P 500 Q4 2025 EPS growth o...

The five biggest U.S. banks generated about $...

Banks are lobbying against President Trump’s ...

Implementation remains uncertain without clea...

2026 IPO Boom: How SpaceX, OpenAI & Anthropic Could Reshape Tech Markets

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic could drive a r...

SpaceX, valued around $800B privately and pow...

OpenAI is valued near $500B with revenue acce...

Anthropic, valued about $300–350B, is leaning...

Devon-Coterra Deal Looms: Strategic Stakes, Financial Strengths & Regulatory Hurdles

Americas M&A Oil and Gas Extraction

Devon Energy and Coterra Energy are reportedl...

The tie-up would increase scale and drilling ...

Both companies bring solid balance sheets and...

Key uncertainties include valuation and likel...

Why Financial Distress Is Driving Healthcare M&A Amid Rising Regulatory Risk

Americas M&A Hospitals

Hospital and health system M&A fell in 2025 t...

Financial distress drove activity, with 43.5%...

Policy and cost uncertainty froze dealmaking ...

For-profit systems largely exited rather than...