EverBank to Combine With WaFd to Create $75 Billion BankWSJ · 14h
Robinhood Wins a New Role in the Oura IPO: UnderwriterWSJ · 14h
Pricey oil is laying the groundwork for its own declineFT · 17h
Africa’s richest man seeks to raise $1.6bn in continent’s biggest IPOFT · 18h
LME Copper Prices Hit Record on Supply Issues, U.S. Tariff ConcernsWSJ · 18h
Oil closes in on $100 as renewed supply crunch loomsFT · 19h
Oil Extends Gains on Middle East Attacks; U.S. Gas Prices at Record High for Labor DayWSJ · 19h
Canada Imposes Tariffs Up to 50% on US, Risking Wider Trade WarBBG · 20h
South Africa Set to End Longest Growth Run in Decade on IranBBG · 20h
Stock Funds Are Up 12.6% for Year So FarWSJ · 20h
Institutional Investors Move Markets. Here’s How to Read Their Signs.WSJ · 20h
Oil Higher on Hormuz Escalation, Weighing on SentimentWSJ · 21h
Health Care Roundup: Market TalkWSJ · 22h
US shale pioneer takes fracking to Australia’s remote gas frontierFT · 22h
Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market TalkWSJ · 23h
Sterling Edges Higher After U.K. Treasury Chief SpeechWSJ · 23h
Tech
Europe battles to catch US and China in space raceFT · 33m
AI Is Disrupting Software Companies—but Not as Fast as Many FearedWSJ · 1h
Will data centres avoid the curse of the mega-project?FT · 1h
Reading scores plummet as ‘digital distraction’ harms studentsFT · 2h
Australia proposes opt-out law for social media algorithmsFT · 4h
Mistral AI Exceeds $24 Billion Valuation After Samsung-Led Investment RoundWSJ · 5h
Mistral raises record €3bn as Europe strains to keep pace in AI raceFT · 5h
AI is ushering in an era of mass toe-treading at workFT · 6h
Britain’s grid operator gave Palantir contract without inviting rival bidsFT · 6h
Anthropic and OpenAI bankers push for top-tier credit ratings post-IPOFT · 6h
Can Huawei build China’s answer to ASML?FT · 7h
Belgium’s Arrest of Alleged Chinese Chip-Tech Thief Fuels European Fear of BeijingWSJ · 17h
Belgian-Chinese researcher arrested over suspected theft of chip secretsFT · 19h
Law schools tell students to put AI awayFT · 20h
Deal Flow
M&A / Strategic
Ken Griffin's Citadel is seeking to buy US shale oil production assets10m
PE-backed Florida-based EverBank Financial will merge with PWN-based WaFd to create a lender with $75B in assets10m
Blackstone is looking to buy the 15.2% stake in $3B-listed Indian shadow lender IIFL Finance from Canada's Fairfax Financial Holdings10m
EQT agreed to acquire a majority stake in UK insurance broker McGill and Partners from Warburg Pincus for $2B10m
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 Epiris10m
Australian developer Ingenia Communities rejected a $1.4B takeover bid from Warburg Pincus despite a 30% premium10m
Hedge fund Toscafund will take-private UK's biggest private hospital operator Spire for over $1.4B10m
Sweden will buy Lockheed Martin's Himars artillery rocket system in a $730M deal10m
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 valuation10m
Angola plans to raise $230M from a 34% stake sale in Standard Bank de Angola previously held by a convicted insurance tycoon10m
Abu Dhabi AI firm G42 is exploring selling a majority stake to American firms to safeguard access to US chips10m
Abu Dhabi's ADNOC is in talks with Thai refiner PTT and African conglomerate Dangote for stakes in their refineries10m
Spanish banking group BCC-Grupo Cooperativo Cajamar ended talks over a potential acquisition of Portuguese bank Banco CTT from CTT - Correios de Portugal10m
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 JVs10m
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 Gold10m
Polish anti-drone company Advanced Protection Systems is exploring a sale10m
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 entities10m
Portugal asked Air France-KLM and Lufthansa to submit improved offers for a 49.9% stake in the privatization of flag carrier TAP10m
VC
Google-backed Indian space tech startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by SWF Temasek and Seraphim10m
Nua, a women's wellness brand, raised a $50M Series C led by Peak XV Partners and Filter Capital10m
Gimlet Labs, an applied AI research and product company, raised a $300M Series B at a $3B valuation led by a16z10m
IPOs / Listings / Issuances / Block Trades
Anthropic will launch its $100B IPO in mid-October with Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs set to lead the offering10m
China's Moonshot AI is considering raising $5B in a Hong Kong IPO this year10m
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 valuation10m
Nigeria's Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals is seeking to raise $1.6B at a $49B valuation in Africa's biggest IPO ever10m
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 valuation10m
KKR-backed South Korean fashion retailer Musinsa plans to IPO at a $7.5B valuation in Korea's biggest IPO in years10m
Blue Owl Capital is seeking to launch a $6.5B-listed data center REIT10m
Swedish smart ring maker Oura Health named Robinhood as an underwriter in its first ever IPO mandate10m
RNA-focused Adarx Pharmaceuticals filed for an IPO10m
Indonesian miner Merdeka Battery Materials is considering a Hong Kong share sale10m
South Africa is seeking to spinoff Eskom Transmission into a fully independent transmission system operator10m
Japanese unicorn chip startup Preferred Networks plans to IPO this decade10m
Debt
China's ByteDance secured a $29.6B loan from 30 banks for its AI push10m
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 IPO10m
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 Towers10m
Chinese University of Hong Kong is seeking a $510M bank loan to refinance a facility supporting its private hospital10m
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 June10m
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 debt10m
Struggling Ukrainian iron ore miner Ferrexpo raised $100M from investors to stave off insolvency10m
Funds / Secondaries
Millennium AUM is nearing $100B amid a $22B fundraising haul10m
Saudi's leading AI firm HUMAIN plans to launch a large $10B VC fund10m
UK venture debt firm Claret Capital raised $670M for its fourth European growth debt fund to back 'less sexy' startups10m
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 region10m
Reforma
Implementan México y EU operativo antidrones en fronteraNacional · 9h
Advierten fuga de 1.4 billones de pesos por facturerasPortada · 10h
Quita Morena a Inzunza de Comisión de Estudios LegislativosPortada · 10h
Presume Johnson intercambio de información entre paísesPortada · 11h
Hallan en bodega de Farías armas y documentos clasificadosPortada · 13h
Detienen a Alcalde y su hermano por extorsión en PueblaPortada · 17h
Alertan de credibilidad en presupuesto 2027Negocios · 23h
Cuesta extorsión $91,800 millonesPortada · 23h
Condona Infonavit, pero sube morosidadPortada · 23h