December 2025 – Page 28 – Finance Updates

SoftBank Buys DigitalBridge for $4B to Accelerate Its AI Infrastructure

SoftBank will acquire digital infrastructure ...

DigitalBridge, which manages roughly $108 bil...

The deal is a pillar of SoftBank’s AI and “Ar...

The transaction, unanimously approved by Digi...

How Metalmark’s 2018 Investment Transformed Host’s Maritime Infrastructure

Americas M&A Construction

Metalmark Capital made a strategic private eq...

Founder Adam Anderson and the Host family ret...

Host aims to redevelop Avondale into a multim...

The deal gives Metalmark exposure to infrastr...

Reverence Capital’s New Credit Fund: What Goldman Roots Mean for Private Credit

Americas Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Reverence Capital is launching a new private ...

The credit team is stacked with ex-Goldman sp...

No details have been disclosed on the fund’s ...

The initiative enters a crowded private credi...

Senate Ethics Under Scrutiny: Feinstein, Allogene Stake & COVID Briefing Timing

Americas Policy Health Care and Social Assistance

In early 2020, Richard Blum, husband of Sen. ...

The timing drew scrutiny because the trades f...

Feinstein said she did not attend the briefin...

FBI and DOJ probes into the trades were close...

Richard C. Blum: Turnaround Investing, Philanthropy & Estate Trust Disputes

Americas Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Richard C. Blum parlayed an $8 million acquis...

He founded Blum Capital in 1975, specializing...

His Himalayan travels spurred major philanthr...

Blum, who died in 2022 at 86, left a legacy t...

What Euromoney’s New Investment Banking Survey Reveals: Benchmarks, Client Perception & Strategy

Global Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Euromoney is launching an Investment Banking ...

The survey runs from 20 January to 17 March 2...

Results will provide peer benchmarking, third...

Participation affects competitive positioning...

Citi’s Asia Investment Banking Growth Plan 2026: Trends in Tech, Healthcare & Hybrid Finance

Asia Forecast Health Care and Social Assistance

Citi expects Asia to be a core engine of glob...

Healthcare, TMT, AI and hybrid instruments su...

Citi is scaling up in high-growth markets lik...

Main risks include potential AI and tech valu...

Innovation Meets Integrity: AI & Editorial Evolution in Media Strategy

Americas Firms Information

Wall Street’s notoriously stressful hiring ri...

Banks had pulled back on aggressive campus re...

With signs of an uptick in deal activity and ...

The return of superdays would revive intense ...

How Rolex & Tariffs Are Reshaping Luxury Watch Signals in Investment Banking

Americas Policy Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

On Wall Street, watches are key status symbol...

Rolex and other luxury-watch brands raised re...

A new 39% U.S. tariff on Swiss watches has sh...

Career-stage “signal risk” matters: juniors a...

Haiti’s Amputee Banker Races Towards 2026 Winter Paralympics amid Immigration Hurdles

Global Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Ralf Etienne, a 36-year-old one-legged Bank o...

After losing his leg in Haiti’s 2010 earthqua...

U.S. immigration policy changes that halted g...

Bank of America’s flexible support, including...