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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Consumer

Chase Bank Gets into the Ad Game

Chase Bank announced a new advertising unit that will use customer transaction data to target them with ads.

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Patent Drop

JPMorgan Chase Continues AI Rampage with Volatility Prediction Patent

JPMorgan Chase wants to predict overly-aggressive investors with AI.

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Banking

Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street Face Probe Over Bank Stakes

The FDIC is investigating Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street over their large investment stakes in major US banks.

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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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Private Equity

Private Equity Wants Everyone’s Credit Card Debt

The industry is taking advantage of banks’ newfound interest in offloading some of the consumer debt on their books.

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Patent Drop

JPMorgan Chase Patent Highlights Wall Street’s Growing AI Obsession

“The risk of not making the most of the technology is much higher.”

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Finance

Visa, Mastercard are Betting Big on Africa

One study projects the continent’s digital payment ecosystem will grow 30% a year through 2025.

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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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