Senegal Debt Revamp Risks 60% Losses for BondholdersBBG · 14h
The complicated implications of the spectacular ‘Apollo premium’FT · 14h
DWS embraces Deutsche Bank name eight years after distancing itselfFT · 14h
European Indexes Edge Lower as Inflation Concerns LoomWSJ · 14h
Bessent’s Yen Bet Is Paying Off—for NowWSJ · 15h
UK Pays Most Since 1998 to Borrow After Gilt SelloffBBG · 15h
The strangely disappointing EM inflowsFT · 17h
Asian Stock Markets Mixed, Investors Await U.S. CPI DataWSJ · 17h
Offshore borrowing in renminbi hits record high of nearly $150bnFT · 18h
RBA Stands Ready to Raise Rates Again if Needed, Hauser SaysBBG · 18h
The cost of being ApolloFT · 18h
Why Japan Inc can brush off interest-rate hikes — and America can’tFT · 18h
‘Apollo premium’ drives up debt costs for group’s portfolio companiesFT · 18h
The $2tn monsterFT · 18h
The world’s approach to sovereign debt needs to changeFT · 18h
Is the global maritime order breaking down?FT · 18h
Argentina will file criminal case against Falklands oil drillerFT · 19h
Yen surges to six-month high as traders stay alert for signs of interventionFT · 21h
The Stock Market’s Breezy Summer Is Over. Investors Beware.WSJ · 21h
Gold Slips as Traders Weigh Mideast Tensions and Dollar MovesBBG · 23h
Hunter Biden (and His Laptop) Enter the Cryptosphere With New Meme CoinWSJ · 23h
Tech
U.S. Launches New Round of Strikes on Iranian Oil TankersWSJ · 54m
Anthropic and OpenAI bankers push for top-tier credit ratings post-IPOFT · 1h
Opinion | The AI Agent RubiconWSJ · 1h
What You Can Do to Protect Your Family From SextortionWSJ · 1h
What You Can Do to Protect Your Family From SextortionWSJ · 1h
Meta unveils AI personal assistant linked to WhatsApp and InstagramFT · 1h
The End of the Captcha? Not So FastWSJ · 2h
Meta Launches a Personal AI Agent Designed to Be Easy to UseWSJ · 3h
Meta Launches a Personal AI Agent Designed to Be Easy to UseWSJ · 3h
UK says it will force tech giants to stop children sharing nude imagesFT · 4h
OpenAI Says It Has Solved a Millennium Prize Problem—a Holy Grail of MathWSJ · 5h
How Shopify’s Push into AI Is Working OutWSJ · 5h
Apple looks to AI capabilities to drive its new foldable phone salesFT · 6h
Google Cloud, Accenture Launch Unit to Put AI Engineers On-Site With CustomersWSJ · 7h
Think Your Anonymous Account Is Safe? AI Might Figure Out Who You AreWSJ · 8h
AI Infrastructure Will Cost Trillions MoreWSJ · 9h
Innovation is the answer to Britain’s elusive growth problemFT · 12h
Europe plays catch-up in spaceFT · 12h
AI Is Disrupting Software Companies—but Not as Fast as Many FearedWSJ · 13h
Will data centres avoid the curse of the mega-project?FT · 13h
Reading scores plummet as ‘digital distraction’ harms studentsFT · 14h
Australia proposes opt-out law for social media algorithmsFT · 16h
Mistral AI Exceeds $24 Billion Valuation After Samsung-Led Investment RoundWSJ · 17h
Mistral raises record €3bn as Europe strains to keep pace in AI raceFT · 17h
AI is ushering in an era of mass toe-treading at workFT · 18h
Britain’s grid operator gave Palantir contract without inviting rival bidsFT · 18h
Can Huawei build China’s answer to ASML?FT · 19h
Deal Flow
M&A / Strategic
Ken Griffin's Citadel is seeking to buy US shale oil production assets11h
PE-backed Florida-based EverBank Financial will merge with PWN-based WaFd to create a lender with $75B in assets11h
Blackstone is looking to buy the 15.2% stake in $3B-listed Indian shadow lender IIFL Finance from Canada's Fairfax Financial Holdings11h
EQT agreed to acquire a majority stake in UK insurance broker McGill and Partners from Warburg Pincus for $2B11h
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 Epiris11h
Australian developer Ingenia Communities rejected a $1.4B takeover bid from Warburg Pincus despite a 30% premium11h
Hedge fund Toscafund will take-private UK's biggest private hospital operator Spire for over $1.4B11h
Sweden will buy Lockheed Martin's Himars artillery rocket system in a $730M deal11h
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 valuation11h
Angola plans to raise $230M from a 34% stake sale in Standard Bank de Angola previously held by a convicted insurance tycoon11h
Abu Dhabi AI firm G42 is exploring selling a majority stake to American firms to safeguard access to US chips11h
Abu Dhabi's ADNOC is in talks with Thai refiner PTT and African conglomerate Dangote for stakes in their refineries11h
Spanish banking group BCC-Grupo Cooperativo Cajamar ended talks over a potential acquisition of Portuguese bank Banco CTT from CTT - Correios de Portugal11h
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 JVs11h
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 Gold11h
Polish anti-drone company Advanced Protection Systems is exploring a sale11h
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 entities11h
Portugal asked Air France-KLM and Lufthansa to submit improved offers for a 49.9% stake in the privatization of flag carrier TAP11h
VC
Google-backed Indian space tech startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by SWF Temasek and Seraphim11h
Nua, a women's wellness brand, raised a $50M Series C led by Peak XV Partners and Filter Capital11h
Gimlet Labs, an applied AI research and product company, raised a $300M Series B at a $3B valuation led by a16z11h
IPOs / Listings / Issuances / Block Trades
Anthropic will launch its $100B IPO in mid-October with Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs set to lead the offering11h
China's Moonshot AI is considering raising $5B in a Hong Kong IPO this year11h
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 valuation11h
Nigeria's Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals is seeking to raise $1.6B at a $49B valuation in Africa's biggest IPO ever11h
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 valuation11h
KKR-backed South Korean fashion retailer Musinsa plans to IPO at a $7.5B valuation in Korea's biggest IPO in years11h
Blue Owl Capital is seeking to launch a $6.5B-listed data center REIT11h
Swedish smart ring maker Oura Health named Robinhood as an underwriter in its first ever IPO mandate11h
RNA-focused Adarx Pharmaceuticals filed for an IPO11h
Indonesian miner Merdeka Battery Materials is considering a Hong Kong share sale11h
South Africa is seeking to spinoff Eskom Transmission into a fully independent transmission system operator11h
Japanese unicorn chip startup Preferred Networks plans to IPO this decade11h
Debt
China's ByteDance secured a $29.6B loan from 30 banks for its AI push11h
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 IPO11h
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 Towers11h
Chinese University of Hong Kong is seeking a $510M bank loan to refinance a facility supporting its private hospital11h
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 June11h
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 debt11h
Struggling Ukrainian iron ore miner Ferrexpo raised $100M from investors to stave off insolvency11h
Funds / Secondaries
Millennium AUM is nearing $100B amid a $22B fundraising haul11h
Saudi's leading AI firm HUMAIN plans to launch a large $10B VC fund11h
UK venture debt firm Claret Capital raised $670M for its fourth European growth debt fund to back 'less sexy' startups11h
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 region11h
Reforma
Aseguran toma clandestina de Pemex en TultitlánNacional · 40m
Entre reproches inicia Glosa del Segundo InformeNacional · 53m
Urgen replantear modelo educativo tras PISA 2025Nacional · 1h
Detienen en EU a funcionaria de Tecate por traficar drogaNacional · 2h
Nominan a Quiñones y Scarlett Camberos al Balón de OroPortada · 7h
Exhibe PISA fracaso educativo en MéxicoPortada · 11h
Acaparan pensiones 67% de los apoyos socialesPortada · 11h