Finance Updates – Page 30 – Finance Updates

Post-Maduro Venezuela Opportunities & UK Rejects Financial Services EU Alignment

Wall Street banks are weighing a return to Ve...

Defaulted Venezuelan sovereign and PDVSA bond...

Investors expect a massive debt workout given...

In the UK, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has ru...

Blum Holdings’ Fragile Turnaround: Growth, Risks, and Liquidity Warning Signs

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

The cited “Blum Capital losing streak” claim ...

BLMH shows operational improvement, with stro...

Liquidity is precarious, with cash near $0.37...

Debt conversions and new secured borrowing ai...

Nebraska’s Education Crossroads: Funding Flaws & Teacher Shortfalls Threaten 2030 Literacy Goals

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Nebraska set 2030 targets to lift ELA and mat...

Teacher shortages are easing as unfilled role...

A TEEOSA funding error overpaid Omaha Public ...

Key priorities include reducing chronic absen...

Why Vermont’s Big Education Spending Isn’t Closing the Quality Gap

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In 1987, Gov. Madeleine Kunin proposed a foun...

In 1997, the Vermont Supreme Court’s Brigham ...

Act 60 and later updates (Acts 68 and 130) so...

Vermont now faces pressure to revisit school ...

Why Michigan School Districts Are Rejecting $321M in Safety & Mental Health Aid

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Nearly 80% of Michigan districts, including m...

In Marquette-Alger RESA, 11 of 13 districts r...

Districts say the provisions could force waiv...

About $321 million in School Aid Fund dollars...

SGH & Steel Dynamics Bid for BlueScope Rejected: Undervalued at A$30/share

Asia M&A Primary Metal Manufacturing

SGH and Steel Dynamics made an unsolicited, n...

Under the proposal, SGH would keep BlueScope’...

BlueScope’s board unanimously rejected the of...

Top shareholder AustralianSuper backed the re...

ESL Acquires Generations Bank for $26.2M: Strategy, Risks & Scale Reviewed

Americas M&A Depository Credit Intermediation

ESL Federal Credit Union closed its $26.2 mil...

The deal adds eight branches to ESL’s network...

ESL now reports about $9.8 billion in assets,...

Generations branches are expected to remain o...

Snowflake to Acquire Observe: AI Observability & Telemetry Boosts IT Ops by 10×

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Snowflake signed a definitive agreement on Ja...

The combined platform aims to ingest and reta...

Snowflake says Observe’s agentic AI SRE could...

Financial terms were not disclosed, but repor...

CME Globex & EBS Outage Exposes Infrastructure Risk After CyrusOne Cooling Failure

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

A cooling failure at CyrusOne’s CHI1 Chicago ...

The disruption froze prices in major benchmar...

The outage exposed infrastructure single-poin...

Regulators and market participants are expect...

Global Currency Market Shifts: Fees, Liquidity & De-Dollarization Trends

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Currency exchangers earn mainly from the bid-...

Many U.S. credit cards charge about a 3% fore...

The FX market is highly liquid (about $1.38 t...

Reserve and trade shifts away from the U.S. d...