Finance Updates – Page 56 – Finance Updates

NCM Funds Boost Year-End Distributions—Dividend Champions Up ~32%, Global Equity Over 100%

Global Firms Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

NCM Asset Management announced significantly ...

For 2025, NCM Dividend Champions, Global Inco...

The increases represent roughly 32%, 88%, and...

The sharply higher payouts raise questions ab...

HoldCo’s Push in COLB: Governance, Growth & the Case for a Big Buyback

Americas Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

HoldCo Asset Management has built a large $14...

COLB’s post–Pacific Premier acquisition resul...

Despite these operational gains, COLB’s share...

HoldCo is taking a watchful activist stance—f...

Future Trends in Asset Management: Boutique Firms, Private Markets & Regulatory Shifts

Americas Firms Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

Asset management is being reshaped by consoli...

Boutique managers can gain share with differe...

Private markets, especially private credit, a...

Technology and integration of AI-driven tools...

Perella Weinberg Acquires Devon Park to Expand GP-Led Secondaries Advisory Business

Global M&A Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

Perella Weinberg Partners agreed to acquire b...

Devon Park’s 15-person team, led by founder J...

The secondary private-equity market is surgin...

PWP is using its strong, debt-free balance sh...

Wells Fargo Backs Netflix’s $82.7B Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with $30B Bridge Loan

Global M&A Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

Netflix is acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery’s...

Wells Fargo is co-advising Netflix and commit...

The deal faces substantial regulatory and pol...

Success hinges on Netflix integrating WBD whi...

SoftBank to Acquire DigitalBridge for $4B: AI Infrastructure Stakes Surge

Global M&A Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

SoftBank is acquiring DigitalBridge for $16 p...

Analysts including RBC and Truist have downgr...

DigitalBridge will continue to operate as an ...

The deal advances SoftBank’s AI infrastructur...

OceanFirst-Flushing Deal: $23B Regional Bank Formed with Strong 2027 EPS Growth

Americas M&A Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

OceanFirst and Flushing will merge in an all-...

The combined bank is targeting 2027 metrics o...

The transaction relies on realizing cost syne...

Key risks center on regulatory and shareholde...

CME’s Retail Futures Surge: Micro-Contracts & Broker Deals Power Q2 2025 Gains

Americas Markets Finance and Insurance

CME is rapidly democratizing futures trading ...

Q2 2025 results show strong fundamentals with...

Retail futures participation is surging, with...

CME stock offers an income-and-growth profile...

Crypto Derivatives in 2025: Perpetual Futures, Institutional Surge & U.S. Regulation

Global Markets Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Crypto derivatives like futures, perpetuals, ...

In 2025, crypto derivatives dominated trading...

Perpetual futures are the core product in thi...

U.S. regulators, led by the CFTC, are integra...

Foreign Transaction Fees Explained: How to Avoid Them & Maximize Travel Rewards

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Foreign transaction fees are issuer charges, ...

About half of U.S. credit cards still charge ...

Many no-FTF cards (such as those from Capital...

Travelers can reduce costs by choosing cards ...