The recent crypto market correction has reshaped investor behaviour, hitting the most leveraged and over-hyped segments hardest and accelerating a shift toward more disciplined, risk-managed investment strategies. Bitcoin has fallen roughly 30% from its peak, but losses have been far deeper across bitcoin treasury companies and miners, where valuation premiums, leverage, and funding risk were...
BlackRock and billionaire investor Ray Dalio have pledged support for the Trump administration’s new Invest America (so-called “Trump”) accounts, a federally backed investment initiative for children born between 2025–2028. Under the program, the U.S. Treasury will seed $1,000 per child, invested in a broad stock-market index. Major financial firms, including BlackRock, BNY, Visa, Mastercard, Uber,...
Medline is set to debut on Nasdaq after raising $6.26 billion, marking the largest global IPO of 2025 and one of the biggest private-equity-backed listings on record. Backed by Blackstone, Carlyle, and Hellman & Friedman, the U.S. medical supplies giant priced 216 million shares at $29, above the midpoint of its range — a clear...
Oracle’s aggressive push into AI infrastructure has hit a setback after Blue Owl Capital, its largest data-center financing partner, withdrew from a planned $10 billion, 1-gigawatt data center project in Michigan intended to support OpenAI. According to sources, negotiations broke down over lease structures and rising concerns around Oracle’s leverage and escalating AI-related capital expenditure....
U.S. federal prosecutors have charged senior executives of bankrupt subprime auto lender Tricolor with systematic fraud leading up to its billion-dollar collapse. According to the indictment, CEO Daniel Chu and former COO David Goodgame allegedly falsified loan data and double-pledged collateral to make low-quality assets appear compliant with lender requirements. Prosecutors said fraud was embedded...
UBS has appointed Sonja Laud, Chief Investment Officer of Legal & General, to co-head its $1.8 trillion direct investments unit, underscoring the bank’s push to strengthen investment leadership amid its post-Credit Suisse integration. UBS will merge its public and private market investment teams into a single platform, representing the core of its $2 trillion asset...