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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    John Gapper
    The silent business of digital identity has remade Relx

    Company once known as Reed Elsevier has moved from legal and scientific publishing into AI fraud detection

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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Should I sign a cohabitation agreement?

    My parents are helping my partner and I to buy a property

    Photo of a happy young couple moving into their new home together
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Private equity
    BlackRock private equity fund takes more than $600mn hit on investment

    Alacrity’s restructuring puts it under control of private credit lenders including Antares, Blue Owl, KKR and Goldman

    A Blackrock sign on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    US banks
    Wait, how many banks were run in 2023?

    More than you’d think!

  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Lloyds Banking Group
    Lloyds Banking Group’s branch shake-up fuels concern over closures and job cuts

    Company’s customers across Halifax, Bank of Scotland and flagship brand to be allowed to use each other’s premises

    Logos of Lloyds and Halifax above a close-up of a sterling banknote
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Lloyd's of London Ltd
    Lloyd’s of London chief Neal to move to Aon

    Head of world’s oldest insurance market steered it through Covid but was criticised for delays to IT overhaul

    John Neal, pictured in 2019
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    UK financial regulation
    Bank of England to relax rules for banks and insurers

    PRA’s Sam Woods says burden can be eased without ‘race to the bottom’ on financial regulation

    Exterior of the Bank of England in the City of London
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Fund management
    Is Millennium morphing into a fund of funds?

    Multi-strategy –> Multi-manager –> Multi-boutique

  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Chinese business & finance
    Pentagon blacklisting of China’s EV battery maker puts US banks in bind

    Involvement in Hong Kong secondary listing of CATL raises reputational risks for Wall Street groups

    A prototype of CATL’s Freevoy Super Hybrid Battery
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Exchange traded funds
    Amundi to shut its original ‘multi’ smart beta ETF

    The fund made returns of nearly 20% last year but has failed to retain sufficient assets to be ‘economically efficient’

    A specialist trader watches his chart while working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Citigroup Inc
    Wall Street doubts Citi chief Fraser can hit crucial target

    Bank has lagged well behind rivals on important measure of profitability

    Jane Fraser, chief executive officer of Citigroup
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Houston, we have a problem Premium content

    Plus, one tech investor thinks Europe still has a shot at the AI race and Blackstone gets in on the accounting sector

    Sealy and Serta Simmons mattresses on display at a store
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Behind the Money podcast24 min listen
    What crypto wants from Trump

    The crypto sector cheered Donald Trump’s election in the US — what’s next?

  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Advertising Standards Authority UK
    UK watchdog bans adverts featuring burning dollars

    Posters from Islamic finance start-up Wahed Invest likely to cause ‘serious offence’, rules ASA

    Poster showing Ismail ibn Musa Menk, left, and Khabib Nurmagomedov pointing up as burning US banknotes fall, next to the caption ‘Join the Money Revolution’
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Blackstone Group LP
    Blackstone joins private equity deal wave in US accounting sector

    Acquisition of Citrin Cooperman from New Mountain Capital for $2bn marks a step up in valuations

    Blackstone’s headquarters in New York
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    UK house prices
    UK house prices dipped in December, says Halifax

    Decline is first for nine months although prices still 3.3% above last year

    ‘For sale’ signs outside houses in London, England
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Private equity wants your retirement funds Premium content

    Plus, Nippon sues the US over blocked steel deal and the pressure is on for new investment banker hires to deliver

    Marc Rowan, chief executive of Apollo
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    LexPrivate equity
    Mom and pop pension savers could benefit from private markets, at the right price Premium content

    Private equity made strong returns from investing in alternative assets over the past 30 years

    Steve Schwarzman in Davos, Switzerland in January 2024
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Financial literacy
    Only 1 in 4 young adults received financial education at school, study shows

    Poor access to money management is pushing students towards ‘unreliable’ online resources, says Santander UK chair

    A person holding a calculator
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    European Investment Bank
    EIB fears ‘reputational disaster’ over revised EU green reporting

    Internal memo reveals multilateral lender’s fear that new rules will put its climate credentials at risk

    EIB headquarters in Luxembourg
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Exchange traded funds
    Fidelity to convert $180mn bond index fund into ETF

    The proposed move is thought to be the first conversion in the US of a passively managed index mutual fund to an ETF

  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    Federal Reserve
    Barr to step down as Fed’s top Wall Street regulator

    US central bank’s vice-chair for supervision will leave his role in February but stay on as a governor

    Michael Barr
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    Shawbrook Group PLC
    Shawbrook owners target £2bn valuation as they weigh sale or IPO

    BC Partners and Pollen Street Capital close to appointing Goldman Sachs to oversee listing of UK lender

    Shawbrook logo
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    Investor activism
    Investment trusts hit back against activist Boaz Weinstein

    US hedge fund manager asked shareholders of seven trusts to overhaul boards and install his fund as investment manager

    Boaz Weinstein
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    News in-depthInvestment Banking
    Investment banks prepare for crunch year in 2025

    Boutiques counting on M&A rebound to support elevated valuations and star hires

    Logos of Evercore, Lazard, PJT, Moelis, Perella Weinberg and Houlihan Lokey with a chart in the foreground
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