Finance Updates – Page 66 – Finance Updates

Why Private Equity Is Losing to the S&P 500: Key Risks & LP Pressure

Americas Markets Other Investment Pools and Funds

Private equity has lagged public equities in ...

Exits remain sluggish, leaving aging portfoli...

To manufacture liquidity, GPs are leaning mor...

Fundraising has fallen—especially for buyouts...

UK Private Equity Moves Funds Offshore: Transparency and Regulation Under Pressure

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

UK private equity firms have domiciled about ...

Post-Brexit investor demand for EU market acc...

Regulators and campaigners warn offshore stru...

The UK faces a trade-off between keeping priv...

JPMorgan Buys Apple Card’s $20B Loan Portfolio from Goldman with Big Discount

Americas M&A Depository Credit Intermediation

JPMorgan Chase agreed to take over Apple Card...

The handoff is expected to take about 24 mont...

Core Apple Card features and customer account...

The deal strengthens JPMorgan’s credit-card l...

Saudi Arabia Commands Nearly 80% of GCC IPO Proceeds in 2025 Amid Sector Gains

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

GCC IPO proceeds fell to $5.1bn across 40 dea...

Saudi Arabia led the market with $4.1bn (arou...

In Saudi IPOs, Industrials and Real Estate ra...

Despite the IPO lead, Saudi’s Tadawul index f...

Wells Fargo’s Breakthrough 2025 in U.S. Investment Banking: Deals, Rank & Strategy

Americas Firms Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

Wells Fargo surged to 7th in 2025 U.S. M&A le...

The bank built out its advisory bench by hiri...

Tailwinds such as the lifting of the asset ca...

Despite volume gains and rising CIB and inves...

Angi Inc.’s AI-Driven Turnaround: Layoffs, Margin Expansion & Channel Shake-Up

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Angi will cut about 350 jobs (~12.5%) to rest...

KeyBanc reiterated Overweight on ANGI with a ...

Q1 2025 revenue fell ~19% YoY to $245.9M as n...

Despite the top-line decline, GAAP profitabil...

U-Haul Pushes Self-Storage Case at KeyBanc Forum: Profitability, Risks & Valuation

Americas Firms Warehousing and Storage

U-Haul will present at KeyBanc’s Self-Storage...

It operates about 1.11 million rentable stora...

Self-storage revenue is growing faster than m...

Investors will focus on occupancy-driven marg...

No Sign of Blum Capital Slide: Deep Dive into Blüm Holdings’ Financial Reality

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

No corroborating Wall Street Journal reportin...

Blüm Holdings Inc. (BLMH) shows modest revenu...

Liquidity is extremely thin (about $0.37M cas...

Key investor risks include likely dilutive fi...

Ravi Jaipuria’s QSR Shake-Up: Merging Devyani & Sapphire to Redefine India’s Fast-Food Landscape

Asia M&A Restaurants and Other Eating Places

Ravi Kant Jaipuria’s estimated net worth reac...

Varun Beverages, PepsiCo’s largest bottler ou...

Devyani International and Sapphire Foods anno...

The combined group aims to revive Pizza Hut, ...

Why Government Bond Yields Are Rising: Inflation, Debt & Central Bank Moves Explained

Global Markets Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

Global 10-year government bond yields rose in...

Japan led the move, with the 10-year JGB up ~...

U.S. 10-year Treasuries ended at 4.15% (+13bp...

Europe was mixed, with France’s 10-year near ...