Senegal Debt Revamp Risks 60% Losses for BondholdersBBG · 20h
The complicated implications of the spectacular ‘Apollo premium’FT · 20h
DWS embraces Deutsche Bank name eight years after distancing itselfFT · 20h
European Indexes Edge Lower as Inflation Concerns LoomWSJ · 20h
Bessent’s Yen Bet Is Paying Off—for NowWSJ · 21h
The strangely disappointing EM inflowsFT · 23h
Asian Stock Markets Mixed, Investors Await U.S. CPI DataWSJ · 23h
Tech
Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agencyFT · 46m
Fundraising frenzy for China AI lab DeepSeek spawns shadow marketFT · 2h
OpenAI faces competing claims around maths breakthroughFT · 4h
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI FearsWSJ · 5h
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI FearsWSJ · 5h
U.S. Launches New Round of Strikes on Iranian Oil TankersWSJ · 6h
Anthropic and OpenAI bankers push for top-tier credit ratings post-IPOFT · 7h
Opinion | The AI Agent RubiconWSJ · 7h
What You Can Do to Protect Your Family From SextortionWSJ · 7h
What You Can Do to Protect Your Family From SextortionWSJ · 7h
Meta unveils AI personal assistant linked to WhatsApp and InstagramFT · 8h
The End of the Captcha? Not So FastWSJ · 8h
Meta Launches a Personal AI Agent Designed to Be Easy to UseWSJ · 9h
Meta Launches a Personal AI Agent Designed to Be Easy to UseWSJ · 9h
UK says it will force tech giants to stop children sharing nude imagesFT · 10h
OpenAI Says It Has Solved a Millennium Prize Problem—a Holy Grail of MathWSJ · 11h
How Shopify’s Push into AI Is Working OutWSJ · 11h
Apple looks to AI capabilities to drive its new foldable phone salesFT · 12h
Google Cloud, Accenture Launch Unit to Put AI Engineers On-Site With CustomersWSJ · 13h
Think Your Anonymous Account Is Safe? AI Might Figure Out Who You AreWSJ · 14h
AI Infrastructure Will Cost Trillions MoreWSJ · 15h
Innovation is the answer to Britain’s elusive growth problemFT · 18h
Europe plays catch-up in spaceFT · 18h
AI Is Disrupting Software Companies—but Not as Fast as Many FearedWSJ · 19h
Will data centres avoid the curse of the mega-project?FT · 19h
Reading scores plummet as ‘digital distraction’ harms studentsFT · 20h
Australia proposes opt-out law for social media algorithmsFT · 22h
Mistral raises record €3bn as Europe strains to keep pace in AI raceFT · 23h
Deal Flow
M&A / Strategic
Ken Griffin's Citadel is seeking to buy US shale oil production assets18h
PE-backed Florida-based EverBank Financial will merge with PWN-based WaFd to create a lender with $75B in assets18h
Blackstone is looking to buy the 15.2% stake in $3B-listed Indian shadow lender IIFL Finance from Canada's Fairfax Financial Holdings18h
EQT agreed to acquire a majority stake in UK insurance broker McGill and Partners from Warburg Pincus for $2B18h
Dutch PE firm Waterland plans to make a higher offer for UK telecoms firm Gamma Communications than the $1.4B bid from UK PE firm Epiris18h
Australian developer Ingenia Communities rejected a $1.4B takeover bid from Warburg Pincus despite a 30% premium18h
Hedge fund Toscafund will take-private UK's biggest private hospital operator Spire for over $1.4B18h
Sweden will buy Lockheed Martin's Himars artillery rocket system in a $730M deal18h
LVMH-linked PE firm L Catterton is close to buying a controlling stake in fitness competition brand Hyrox from Switzerland-based Infront Sports & Media at a $700M valuation18h
Angola plans to raise $230M from a 34% stake sale in Standard Bank de Angola previously held by a convicted insurance tycoon18h
Abu Dhabi AI firm G42 is exploring selling a majority stake to American firms to safeguard access to US chips18h
Abu Dhabi's ADNOC is in talks with Thai refiner PTT and African conglomerate Dangote for stakes in their refineries18h
Spanish banking group BCC-Grupo Cooperativo Cajamar ended talks over a potential acquisition of Portuguese bank Banco CTT from CTT - Correios de Portugal18h
Australian energy firm Santos acquired an additional 3.3% stake in the Papua LNG project from France's TotalEnergies for $190M to raise its stake to 21% after TotalEnergies transferred operatorship to ExxonMobil and cut its stake to 20% to focus on other JVs18h
P*rn tycoon David Sullivan raised his stake in UK soccer club West Ham United to 40% despite sex abuse allegations while Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky became the biggest shareholder with a 46% stake after acquiring shares from Vanessa Gold18h
Polish anti-drone company Advanced Protection Systems is exploring a sale18h
South Africa's Industrial Development Corp. plans to sell its 10.5% stake in Namibia's Rossing Uranium to cut ties with Iranian and Russian entities18h
Portugal asked Air France-KLM and Lufthansa to submit improved offers for a 49.9% stake in the privatization of flag carrier TAP18h
VC
Google-backed Indian space tech startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by SWF Temasek and Seraphim18h
Nua, a women's wellness brand, raised a $50M Series C led by Peak XV Partners and Filter Capital18h
Gimlet Labs, an applied AI research and product company, raised a $300M Series B at a $3B valuation led by a16z18h
IPOs / Listings / Issuances / Block Trades
Anthropic will launch its $100B IPO in mid-October with Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs set to lead the offering18h
China's Moonshot AI is considering raising $5B in a Hong Kong IPO this year18h
Jio Platforms, the telecoms unit of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, is set to market its record $4B India IPO this week; the listing could fetch a $150B valuation18h
Nigeria's Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals is seeking to raise $1.6B at a $49B valuation in Africa's biggest IPO ever18h
SHEIN shares are down 19% from their IPO price to become Hong Kong's worst IPO in years after raising $1.75B at a $26.5B valuation18h
KKR-backed South Korean fashion retailer Musinsa plans to IPO at a $7.5B valuation in Korea's biggest IPO in years18h
Blue Owl Capital is seeking to launch a $6.5B-listed data center REIT18h
Swedish smart ring maker Oura Health named Robinhood as an underwriter in its first ever IPO mandate18h
RNA-focused Adarx Pharmaceuticals filed for an IPO18h
Indonesian miner Merdeka Battery Materials is considering a Hong Kong share sale18h
South Africa is seeking to spinoff Eskom Transmission into a fully independent transmission system operator18h
Japanese unicorn chip startup Preferred Networks plans to IPO this decade18h
Debt
China's ByteDance secured a $29.6B loan from 30 banks for its AI push18h
UK AI cloud firm Nscale is seeking to sell $1.5B of convertibles and secure $2B in financing from Nvidia ahead of its $3B US IPO18h
Africa's largest mobile network operator MTN Group is exploring its first international bond sale in a decade to fund its $2.2B buyout of the remaining 30% shares of IHS Towers18h
Chinese University of Hong Kong is seeking a $510M bank loan to refinance a facility supporting its private hospital18h
Blue Owl Technology Finance Corp., the software-focused private credit fund of Blue Owl, raised $150M in a private placement its its third financing since June18h
Bankruptcy / Restructuring / Distressed
A slice of EQT-backed French medical diagnostics firm Cerba Healthcare's revolving credit facility is up for sale as the firm moves toward a court-supervised restructuring to tackle $5.8B in debt18h
Struggling Ukrainian iron ore miner Ferrexpo raised $100M from investors to stave off insolvency18h
Funds / Secondaries
Millennium AUM is nearing $100B amid a $22B fundraising haul18h
Saudi's leading AI firm HUMAIN plans to launch a large $10B VC fund18h
UK venture debt firm Claret Capital raised $670M for its fourth European growth debt fund to back 'less sexy' startups18h
A group of Nordic companies and investors are seeking to create an investment fund to close a funding gap for firms who seek capital outside the region18h
Reforma
Matan a Amy Navarrete, aspirante del PAN en OaxacaNacional · 1h
Propone CSP reformas a aduanas, pagos digitales y catastroPortada · 2h
Reducen estimación de crecimientoPortada · 4h
Prevén ingresos tributarios de 15.9% del PIB por IEPS e ISRNegocios · 4h
Nominan a Quiñones y Scarlett Camberos al Balón de OroPortada · 13h
Análisis de expertos: Atraso en educaciónPortada · 17h
Exhibe PISA fracaso educativo en MéxicoPortada · 17h
Acaparan pensiones 67% de los apoyos socialesPortada · 17h