Finance Updates – Page 10 – Finance Updates

2025 Momentum Review: AI Agents, Automotive Connectivity & Healthcare Investment Trends

O'Melveny's 2025 Momentum Year in Review trac...

ServiceNow's US$2.85B acquisition of Movework...

NXP's US$243M purchase of Aviva Links signals...

Large rounds in AI and regulated sectors (e.g...

Why the Illumina/Grail ECJ Ruling Is Redrawing EU Merger Control and Deal Risk

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

The ECJ’s Illumina/Grail ruling bars Article ...

Member states are rolling out or expanding na...

France is moving toward a criteria-based call...

Nvidia’s acquisition of Run:AI is a test case...

European Logistics M&A Surges in 2024: Cold-Chain, Warehousing Lead Growth for 2025

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

European transport & logistics M&A bucked the...

Activity skewed toward larger strategic conso...

Corporate buyers dominated (~75% of deals) an...

Warehousing/storage surged (+180% to 31 deals...

a16z’s $15B Raise Reshapes U.S. Venture Landscape with Focus on Growth & National Security

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) raised a record $1...

The haul equals over 18% of U.S. venture doll...

Strategy tilts toward AI and national-priorit...

Its scale-up revives concerns about LP and pe...

Venezuela’s Energy Revival: Risks and Rewards for Oil Investors Post-Maduro

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

After Maduro’s removal in early January 2026,...

Big capital is largely on hold because core U...

Distressed Venezuelan bonds have jumped on tr...

Political legitimacy, rule of law, and enviro...

Post-Maduro Venezuela Opportunities & UK Rejects Financial Services EU Alignment

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Wall Street banks are weighing a return to Ve...

Defaulted Venezuelan sovereign and PDVSA bond...

Investors expect a massive debt workout given...

In the UK, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has ru...

Blum Holdings’ Fragile Turnaround: Growth, Risks, and Liquidity Warning Signs

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

The cited “Blum Capital losing streak” claim ...

BLMH shows operational improvement, with stro...

Liquidity is precarious, with cash near $0.37...

Debt conversions and new secured borrowing ai...

Snowflake to Acquire Observe: AI Observability & Telemetry Boosts IT Ops by 10×

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Snowflake signed a definitive agreement on Ja...

The combined platform aims to ingest and reta...

Snowflake says Observe’s agentic AI SRE could...

Financial terms were not disclosed, but repor...

CME Globex & EBS Outage Exposes Infrastructure Risk After CyrusOne Cooling Failure

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

A cooling failure at CyrusOne’s CHI1 Chicago ...

The disruption froze prices in major benchmar...

The outage exposed infrastructure single-poin...

Regulators and market participants are expect...

Global Currency Market Shifts: Fees, Liquidity & De-Dollarization Trends

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Currency exchangers earn mainly from the bid-...

Many U.S. credit cards charge about a 3% fore...

The FX market is highly liquid (about $1.38 t...

Reserve and trade shifts away from the U.S. d...