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KKR Dominates PE Fundraising 2020–24: What It Means for Private Equity Futures

PEI 300 rankings for 2020–2024 show KKR narro...

Industry fundraising is essentially flat, but...

KKR, Blackstone, and EQT all manage hundreds ...

Smaller GPs must differentiate via specializa...

OpenAI’s Project Mercury: How AI Is Reshaping Entry-Level Finance Roles

Global Markets Financial Services

OpenAI’s secretive “Project Mercury” hires ov...

These contractors earn about US$150 per hour ...

The initiative aims to automate junior banker...

Project Mercury reflects OpenAI’s push to mon...

Goldman Sachs Tops 2025 Global M&A Rankings as Deal Value Surges by 41%

Global M&A Financial Services

Global M&A rebounded in 2025 to about $4.8 tr...

Goldman Sachs topped global M&A league tables...

Goldman led North America by deal value while...

Falling rates and looser regulation are fueli...

Fintech’s Turning Point in 2026: Agents, Regulation & Embedded Finance Take the Lead

Global Forecast Financial Services

By 2026, agentic AI will become core to finan...

Trust, governance, and stricter global regula...

Stablecoins, CBDCs, tokenized assets, and emb...

Legacy banks must modernize to open, modular,...

Hedge Funds Posted 10.7% in 2025—Can Strong Returns Hold Up Amid Rising Risks?

Global Markets Financial Services

Hedge funds had a strong 2025, posting ~10.7%...

Rising correlations with the S&P 500, crowded...

Smaller, sub-$100 million funds outperformed ...

Allocators are urged to deepen stress tests, ...

Silver Market Faces Tight Supply & Rising Risks Despite Strong Industrial Demand

Global Markets Financial Services

Hedge-fund veteran Alexander Campbell warns t...

Despite these risks, he argues silver remains...

From January 1, 2026, China will require expo...

This combination of near-term correction risk...

Cantor Fitzgerald Acquires UBS’s O’Connor Platform: Risks, Rewards & Timing

Global M&A Financial Services

Cantor Fitzgerald’s acquisition of UBS’s O’Co...

Losses tied to First Brands Group’s bankruptc...

Key O’Connor capital solutions executives dec...

The deal advances UBS’s post-Credit Suisse ba...

Bridgewater’s Record 2025: Pure Alpha Gains 33%, Asia & China Outperform Too

Global Markets Financial Services

Bridgewater’s Pure Alpha fund returned 33% in...

Other Bridgewater strategies also posted stro...

The firm, managing about $92 billion, has tig...

Open questions center on the sustainability o...

2025 Biopharma M&A Booms: Patent Cliff Spurs Big Pharma to Secure Late-Stage Assets

Global M&A Healthcare

Biopharma M&A in 2025 shifted to fewer but mu...

Headline acquisitions such as J&J–Intra-Cellu...

Patent cliffs threaten roughly $180–230 billi...

Deal structures feature heavier use of milest...

SoftBank Acquires DigitalBridge for $4B in Move to Boost AI Infrastructure

Global M&A Infrastructure

SoftBank will acquire DigitalBridge for about...

The transaction, expected to close in the sec...

By buying data centers, towers, fiber, and ed...

The deal extends SoftBank’s broader pivot awa...