Finance

Investments

Retirement-Platform Giant Turns On Private Markets Tap

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Retirement plan provider Empower is making private market investments available to participants with help from some Wall Street titans.

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Patent Drop

Mastercard Continues Crypto Crusade with Seamless Transaction Patents

Mastercard’s interest in this tech could help legitimize crypto in the broader scheme of traditional finance.

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M&A

Blackstone and Vista to Take Workplace Software-Maker Smartsheet Private for $8.4 Billion

Blackstone partnered with fellow buyout expert Vista Equity Partners to take workplace software company Smartsheet private for $8.4 billion.

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Banking

BofA Bets on Brick-and-Mortar with 165 New Branches by 2026

Bank of America is counting on customers putting down their screens and driving over to an actual bank to speak with a human.

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Private Equity

Private Equity, Sports and Games Sidestep Frozen M&A Pipelines

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Dealmaking among private equity firms and in the sports and video games sectors has gone full steam ahead amid a global M&A freeze.

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Markets

Coca-Cola Sees Glass Half Full Even as Trade War Drains Fizz From Pop Sales

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Coca-Cola was one of several companies whose earnings last week flashed positive signs, despite the hail of uncertainty around tariffs.

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Finance

PwC Slashes 1,800 Jobs in First Mass Cuts Since 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers said it will lay off 1,800 staff members at its US unit next month. It will impact 2.5% of the unit’s employees.

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Banking

Fed Majorly Backtracks on Proposed Bank-Capital Hike

The proposal to hike holdings for the biggest lenders to buttress market shocks was sliced more than in half.

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Markets

Can a Texas Stock Exchange Really Lock Horns with Wall Street?

The Texas Stock Exchange is hoping to become the center of a new financial mecca in the Lone Star state when it launches next year.

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Finance

Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities Has Some Tips for SEC

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Top of the list is a warning over the rise of 24-hour trading, just as the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange pursue it.

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