Finance Updates – Page 10 – Finance Updates

Clean Energy Investments Soar: Mature Tech Leads While Hydrogen & CCUS Trail

Global energy investment is projected to hit ...

Clean-transition investment reached about US$...

Energy and materials M&A is cautious with few...

Meeting net-zero pathways requires scaling cl...

CPA Canada’s Voluntary Direct Membership: What April 1, 2026 Means for CPA Governance in Canada

Americas Policy Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

Starting April 1, 2026, CPA Canada will move ...

FP Canada, CPAB, and seven major accounting f...

FP Canada will pay the membership fees for it...

The shift follows CPA Ontario and CPA Que9bec...

CIRO Permanently Bans Omer Naek Over Misappropriation & Investor Harm

Americas Risk Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

CIRO permanently banned former TD Waterhouse ...

He opened unauthorized bank accounts in clien...

Sanctions include a CAD 100,000 fine, about C...

An alleged failure-to-cooperate breach was wi...

Investment Banking Booms in 2025: Citigroup Surges While JPMorgan Faces Q4 Setback

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Wall Street banks expect stronger dealmaking ...

2025 global investment-banking fees rose abou...

Results were mixed in late 2025, with JPMorga...

Banks are leaning into growth via hiring and ...

Vanagon Ventures Raises €20M to Back Pre-Seed AI & Deeptech Founders in Europe

Europe Firms Other Investment Pools and Funds

Munich-based Vanagon Ventures, founded in 202...

Led by GPs Axel Roitzsch, Sandro Stark, and S...

Its thesis targets non-SaaS models tackling s...

Fund I aims for about 30 companies and has al...

AI Hardware and Semiconductors: $6.2B Startup Funding Surges with In-Memory, Power & Cooling Wins

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Q4 2025 semiconductor and AI-hardware startup...

Largest rounds included Unconventional AI ($4...

For full-year 2025, U.S. semiconductor startu...

Investors and operators face rising headwinds...

Michigan’s 2025 VC Boom: Fewer Deals, Bigger AI Rounds Reshape Startup Landscape

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Michigan VC in 2025 shifted to fewer but much...

Q4 showed the contraction clearly, dropping t...

National and global VC mirrored this pattern ...

The trend favors later-stage, commercializati...

ClickHouse Scores $400M Series D, $15B Valuation – Expands into LLM Observability & Native Postgres

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

ClickHouse raised $400M in a Series D led by ...

The company says it has 3,000+ customers and ...

ClickHouse acquired Langfuse to add LLM obser...

A blue-chip syndicate (Bessemer, Index, GIC, ...

Key Shifts in LP Behavior: Public Pension Pullbacks, Soaring Secondaries & Exit Expectations

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

New Mexico SIC was the most active LP in 2025...

Rede Partners’ Liquidity Index rebounded to 5...

Secondaries hit a record $226bn in 2025 (+41%...

Even with improving sentiment, many LPs—espec...

What Investors Must Know About Gating & Liquidity Risks in Private Funds

Americas Risk Other Investment Pools and Funds

Private funds can impose “gates” that cap, de...

Recent private-credit stress has pushed some ...

Investor protections are in flux after the SE...

Investors should review offering documents fo...