Finance Updates – Page 118

Enterprise Mobility Expands Into Classes 7-8 After Acquiring Hogan Transports

Americas M&A Transportation and Warehousing

Enterprise Mobility, parent of Enterprise Ren...

Hogan adds more than 10,000 pieces of equipme...

Hogan will continue operating as a separate u...

The deal strengthens Enterprise’s position in...

Ferrero’s $3.1B Takeover of WK Kellogg: Premium Valuation Meets Health & Strategy Shift

Americas M&A Food Manufacturing

Ferrero is acquiring WK Kellogg Co for $23 pe...

WK Kellogg, spun off from Kellogg/Kellanova i...

The deal delivers roughly a 40% premium to WK...

This transaction advances Ferrero’s North Ame...

How Smurfit Westrock Is Scaling After Its Merger: Strategy, Sustainability & Synergies

Americas M&A Paper Manufacturing

Smurfit Westrock, formed from Smurfit Kappa’s...

North America generates roughly half of compa...

Post-merger strategy centers on an owner-oper...

Management is targeting $400 million-plus in ...

Nippon Steel Acquires U.S. Steel: Foreign Investment, Labor, & Security Stakes Revealed

Americas M&A Manufacturing

Nippon Steel has finalized its $14.9 billion ...

A National Security Agreement gives the U.S. ...

NSC will invest about $11 billion by 2028 to ...

Open issues include meeting investment and pe...

Union Pacific & Norfolk Southern Merger: $85B Rail Deal Shakes Freight Landscape

Americas M&A Transportation and Warehousing

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern propose an...

The deal targets about $2.75 billion in annua...

The companies pledge to retain all union work...

The merger faces tough STB scrutiny under pos...

2026 M&A Boom: Canada Leads Global Surge with AI, Cross-Border Deals & PE Moves

Americas M&A Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

Canadian and global M&A are expected to surge...

Canadian companies are ramping up U.S. acquis...

Cheaper and more stable financing from rate c...

Tariffs, U.S. trade policy shifts, regulatory...

OpenAI’s Project Mercury: How AI Is Reshaping Entry-Level Finance Roles

Global Markets Finance and Insurance

OpenAI’s secretive “Project Mercury” hires ov...

These contractors earn about US$150 per hour ...

The initiative aims to automate junior banker...

Project Mercury reflects OpenAI’s push to mon...

Goldman Sachs Tops 2025 Global M&A Rankings as Deal Value Surges by 41%

Global M&A Finance and Insurance

Global M&A rebounded in 2025 to about $4.8 tr...

Goldman Sachs topped global M&A league tables...

Goldman led North America by deal value while...

Falling rates and looser regulation are fueli...

US Banks Post Record Earnings Amid Fed Pivot, Tightening Regulation & Rising Rates

Americas Markets Finance and Insurance

Wall Street’s biggest banks led a 2025 reboun...

Scale and diversification let giants like JPM...

Basel III Endgame was softened, with smaller-...

Generative AI, digital transformation, and a ...

Calviño’s EIB Strategy: Unity, Defence Finance & Climate Powerhouse

Europe Policy Finance and Insurance

EIB President Nadia Calviño argues that Europ...

The EIB will raise defence and security lendi...

Key priorities include cutting red tape, adva...

These moves increase the EIB’s risk tolerance...