Finance Updates – Page 128

Why 2025’s Big Trucking M&A Deals Are Failing — What’s Driving the Shift

Trucking, logistics, and food distribution M&...

US Foods, Performance Food Group, and TFI Int...

Schneider National is leaning into acquisitio...

DSV and others are divesting loss-making or n...

How M&A is Transforming Houston’s Banking Scene: Risks, Deals & What’s Next

Americas M&A Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Texas, led by Houston and other major metros,...

Huntington Bancshares’ $7.4 billion acquisiti...

Prosperity Bancshares is rapidly expanding ac...

Scale pressures, higher costs, and tech and r...

M&A Outlook 2026: Rising Deal Value, Tech & Media on Fire, but Mid-Market & Rules Pose Hurdles

Global M&A Information

Global and U.S. M&A rebounded sharply in 2025...

Forecasts see U.S. deal volumes over $100 mil...

Technology/AI, media & telecom, healthcare, i...

Lower rates, ample PE capital, and narrowing ...

Barclays Taps Hiroshi Minoura to Lead Cross-Border M&A Drive in Japan

Asia M&A Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Barclays has appointed Hiroshi Minoura as Cha...

Minoura, previously a senior advisor to Barcl...

He will lead major and cross-border deals, cl...

The appointment comes amid a record M&A boom ...

From Quake Survivor to Winter Paralympian: Ralf Etienne’s Battle with Visa Bars and Sports Dreams

Europe Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Ralf Etienne, a 36-year-old Bank of America i...

He lost a leg in Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, reb...

Etienne juggles long banking workweeks with w...

His story highlights how immigration policy, ...

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

Global M&A Information

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...