Finance

Private Equity

All in the Franchise: Why Private Equity Loves the Business Model

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It’s understandable if you failed to notice one meaty if unglamorous trend on Wall Street: Private equity’s love affair with franchising.

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Banking

Winner of 2024: Investment Bankers

As the dealmaking environment improved in 2024 thanks to the bull market and interest-rate cuts, investment bankers reaped a windfall.

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Banking

2024: The Year the Rates Were Cut

The Fed’s September rate cut turbo-charged the stock market, but can the market keep up its bull run for 2025?

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M&A

2024: The Year Europe’s Bank Merger Dominoes (Maybe) Started to Fall

Europe’s bank M&A scene has been noticeably stagnant for a while, but that could all be about to change next year.

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Banking

2024: The Year a Rising Star of US Banking Had Its Wings Clipped

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TD Bank was fined more than $3 billion by regulators in October in what’s arguably the biggest banking scandal of the year.

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Private Equity

Investment Giant SoftBank Promises $100 Billion and 100,000 Jobs to the US

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SoftBank’s gigantic pledge undoubtedly represents a major PR victory for the incoming Trump 2.0 administration.

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Finance

Asset Management Giant Vanguard Carves Out New Wealth Management Division

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The move marks the biggest restructuring at the world’s second-largest money manager in more than ten years.

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