Finance Updates – Page 18 – Finance Updates

LBank Launches U.S. Stock Futures: What It Means for Crypto, Tokenized Equities & Risk

LBank says its USDT-settled U.S. stock future...

The product offers 35 U.S. equity futures (e....

Adoption was boosted via a trading competitio...

As leveraged derivatives, these contracts pro...

Markets Soar Amid Weak Job Growth as Meta’s Nuclear Deals Illuminate 2026’s Key Drivers

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Stocks rallied Jan. 9 with the Dow, S&P 500, ...

Markets interpreted the data as supportive of...

Meta signed nuclear power deals with Vistra, ...

Goldman Sachs sees unusually low implied earn...

Goldman Sachs Elevates 638 MDs Globally — EMEA Class Mirrors Strategic Priorities Amid Diversity Slide

Global Firms Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

Goldman Sachs promoted 638 executives to mana...

EMEA accounts for about 159 of these MDs, inc...

In Europe, at least 25 new investment-banking...

Diversity metrics slipped, with women at 27% ...

J.P. Morgan’s Swiss Push: Corporate Banking Growth Drivers, Regulatory Landscape & What’s Next

Europe Firms Depository Credit Intermediation

J.P. Morgan is moving Lutz Karl to Zurich on ...

The expansion targets openings created by Cre...

J.P. Morgan is scaling broadly in Switzerland...

Growth will be tested by tighter Swiss regula...

EU Must Tackle Risk Perception to Unleash Startup Growth Through 28th Regime & Scaleup Fund

Europe Policy Other Investment Pools and Funds

Europe’s main start-up bottleneck is systemic...

With public actors already supplying a large ...

The EU’s Startup & Scaleup Strategy (28th Reg...

Proposed levers include success-contingent fu...

Europe’s Mid-Market PE Rebound: Dry Powder, AI & Green Catalysts Fuel 2026 Surge

Europe Forecast Other Investment Pools and Funds

Europes mid-market private equity heads into ...

Valuation multiples have reset to more invest...

Return opportunities cluster around AI-enable...

Key risks are delayed distributions from agei...

Apollo’s European Strategy: Shifting Leadership Toward Credit & Insurance, Scaling Back Private Equity

Europe Firms Other Investment Pools and Funds

Apollo is seeking a new head of Europe after ...

The firm is pivoting from leveraged buyouts t...

With about $900bn in assets and roughly $185b...

Europe is a priority market as underdeveloped...

Bridgepoint & S64 Revolutionise Wealth Management with Open-Ended Evergreen PE Fund Under ELTIF 2.0

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Bridgepoint Group and S64 launched Bridgepoin...

The vehicle is fully funded at launch and aim...

S64 provides structuring, technology, and lif...

The launch reflects rising demand and support...

Where Canada’s Savings Accounts & GIC Rates Stand Now: Yields, Policy & What’s Next

Americas Markets Depository Credit Intermediation

With the Bank of Canada policy rate at 2.25%,...

Top non-redeemable GIC rates run about 3.65% ...

High-interest savings rates vary widely, with...

Because longer-dated GIC yields are relativel...

a16z Raises $15B in Tough VC Year, Prediction Markets and Policy Take Center Stage

Americas Firms Other Investment Pools and Funds

a16z closed over $15B across new funds, lifti...

The raise alone represented over 18% of all U...

a16z is framing its strategy around U.S.-led ...

Prediction markets (notably Polymarket and Ka...