A Blackstone executive made a revealing comment about the state of private credit
A Blackstone executive made a revealing comment about the state of private credit. Analysts are now reverse engineering its implications.
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Kraken Becomes First Crypto Firm to Win Access to Fed's Core Payments System
The decision means the industry is a step closer to becoming integrated into the mainstream financial system.
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Berkshire Provides Scant Fourth-Quarter Financials. Investors Need to Do Their Own Calculations.
Berkshire's longstanding approach is to mainly provide full-year information.
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Springcoast Capital Partners Leads $180 Million Investment Backing Cart
The e-commerce provider plans to use the growth capital to expand AI use across its logistics services.
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A-CAP's Problems Mount. Annuity Provider Gets Downgraded as Federal Probe Swirls.
The challenges are building for annuities specialist Advantage Capital Management. AM Best recently downgraded the insurance group, which is also facing ties to a federal securities probe.
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Savant Acquires $3.9 Billion Massachusetts Advisory Firm. It Has $42 Billion in Assets Now.
The addition of Heritage Financial is Savant's largest deal to date and adds three offices in the Bay State.
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Blackstone Played Down Private-Credit Risks. Now It's Been Hit.
Outflows topped inflows by a record $1.7 billion in Blackstone's huge $82 billion private-credit fund in its latest quarter.
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Thoma Bravo to Acquire WWEX Group as Its Push for Software Deals Accelerates
The private-equity firm plans to combine it with Auctane, its shipping and fulfillment portfolio company.
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A Small Shop in Ohio Has One of the Fiercest Activist Investors
Ancora made a last-minute push for Warner Bros. Discovery to entertain Paramount's bid.
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Midmarket Firm Torch Key Sets Up Shop With GCM Grosvenor's Support
Founded by alums of One Rock and Gores Group, Torch Key invests in the food and beverage and industrial sector.
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Zurich Insurance Confirms $11 Billion Beazley Takeover
Confirmation ends a period of uncertainty after a deadline for Zurich to make a firm offer-or walk away-was pushed back to this week.
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Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk
Find insight on Klarna, the Asia-Pacific financial sector and more in the latest Market Talks covering Financial Services.
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SoFi's stock rises as CEO Anthony Noto reacts to recent selloff with a $1 million purchase
Noto, who already owns a SoFi stake worth about $215 million on paper, has been known to buy the dip before.
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Berkshire CEO Abel Plans TV Appearance Thursday
Although Greg Abel is doing a TV interview, he didn't hold a quarterly conference call after Berkshire released its fourth-quarter results Saturday.
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Ship Insurers Say They Will Pause Coverage Against War Losses
Insurance brokers said coverage may be available from other sources, but at prices likely 50% higher than before the conflict with Iran started.
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SoftBank Group's PayPay Targets $13.4 Billion Valuation in U.S. IPO
SoftBank Group's payments app operator, PayPay's U.S. initial public offering could bolster the Japanese technology investor's coffers as it pours billions into artificial intelligence.
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