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Senate Nears Deal to Revive ACA Subsidies: Key Caps, Insurer Rules & A Health Savings Twist

A bipartisan Senate group is close to a deal ...

The emerging plan would extend the credits fo...

It also considers letting recipients in year ...

Even with an agreement, passage is uncertain ...

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

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

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...

Iowa Lands Returning Education Waiver: $9.5M Block Grant Boosts Classroom Control

Americas Policy Educational Services

Iowa is the first state approved for the Trum...

The waiver consolidates four ESEA programs (T...

Iowas broader request to fold in 10 streams i...

Supporters say it streamlines administration ...

Europe’s Insurance Distribution M&A Revives Unevenly: UK, France & Nordics Outpace Germany

Europe M&A Agencies, Brokerages, and Other Insurance Related Activities

Europe’s insurance distribution M&A was uneve...

Deal volumes were down year-on-year (373 tran...

Private equity dominated continental European...

Momentum is shifting away from large insurer ...

EU Clears Mars’ $X Billion Kellanova Deal – Strategy, Risks & Regulatory Hurdles

Europe M&A Food Manufacturing

The European Commission unconditionally appro...

Mars will pay about $36 billion (including as...

Regulators concluded the combined brand portf...

The deal closes December 11, 2025, creating a...

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...

EU’s New Merger Control Puts Innovation & Investment at the Core of Competition Law

Europe Policy Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

The European Commission opened a May 2025 con...

The review would shift merger analysis toward...

Options include a unified counterfactual fram...

The Commission is also considering greater re...

Goldman Sachs Tops EMEA Investment Banking in H1 2025, Reshaping Global Strategy

Europe Firms Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

Goldman Sachs led EMEA investment banking by ...

Its biggest jump came in the UK, where it ros...

US banks now take about 37% of EMEA investmen...

Leadership reshuffles and a sharper focus on ...

Why Bloomberg Sometimes Blocks You with Network-Based CAPTCHAs (& How to Fix It)

Americas M&A Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing

Bloomberg may block access with an “unusual a...

Common triggers include rapid requests, autom...

Fixes typically involve enabling cookies/Java...

The broader tradeoff is protecting content fr...