Finance Updates – Page 46 – Finance Updates

U.S. Bancorp to Acquire BTIG: Cost, Strategic Gains & What’s Unclear

Americas M&A Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

U.S. Bancorp agreed to buy broker-dealer BTIG...

Terms include $725 million upfront (cash plus...

BTIG will retain its leadership, with CEO Ant...

U.S. Bancorp expects negligible 2026 EPS impa...

JPMorgan Q4 2025: Trading Soars as Investment Banking Fees Drop Amid Rising Costs

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

JPMorgan’s Q4 net income fell 7% to $13.0B du...

Revenue increased ~7% to $45.8B as Markets ju...

Investment-banking fees slipped 5% to $2.3B a...

JPM kept strong returns and capital (ROE 17%,...

JPMorgan Q4 Earnings: Trading Jumps, Apple Card Deal, And Regulatory Credit Caps Loom

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

JPMorgan beat Q4 adjusted EPS estimates on a ...

Investment-banking fees fell 5% and missed ex...

The bank took a $2.2B reserve tied to acquiri...

Executives warned a proposed 10% cap on credi...

Marex Follow-On Offering: What It Reveals About Valuation & Shareholder Liquidity

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Marex’s first post-IPO follow-on in October 2...

Selling shareholders offered 8,472,333 shares...

The deal followed Marex’s April 2024 Nasdaq I...

Pricing above the IPO level signaled improved...

How Ontario Teachers & Trilantic’s Bet on Orva Signals Rising Power of E-Commerce Facilitators

Americas M&A Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses

Ontario Teachers’ joined Trilantic North Amer...

The deal marks Ontario Teachers’ first move i...

Orva, founded in 1948 and operating as a digi...

Trilantic’s value-creation approach targets f...

How DigitalBridge’s Tower-Led Growth is Reshaping Infra, Telecom & AI Demand

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

DigitalBridge pursues a tower-led digital inf...

It diversifies across towers, data centers, f...

Recent tower M&A and sale-leaseback deals (GD...

A proposed ~$4B SoftBank acquisition (announc...

Why Intel, AMD & Micron Are Fueling the Next Memory & AI Chip Boom

Americas Markets Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing

KeyBanc upgraded Intel and AMD to Overweight,...

Intel’s improving 18A yields (over 60%) suppo...

AMD expects at least 50% server CPU growth in...

KeyBanc raised Micron’s price target to $450 ...

Intel’s KeyBanc Upgrade: Betting on AI Demand, 18A Foundry Progress & Server CPU Potential

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

KeyBanc upgraded Intel to Overweight with a $...

KeyBanc says Intel is nearly sold out of 2026...

Intel’s 18A node for Panther Lake is reported...

Most analysts remain more cautious, flagging ...

Intel’s Crucial 2026: 18A Promise, 14A Risk & the Push to Take on TSMC

Americas Forecast Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing

2026 is the commercial inflection point for I...

Intel will advance 14A only with firm anchor-...

CHIPS Act and U.S. strategic backing help sca...

TSMC’s lead and entrenched demand make Intel’...

KeyBanc Keeps Neutral on Apple as Strong Sales Clash with Slowing Hardware Demand

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

KeyBanc reiterates a Sector Weight on Apple a...

Apple’s hardware spending index rose 22% quar...

Apple is gaining share and shipment growth gl...

With valuation elevated (about 35× P/E and ~1...