Goldman Sachs bankers are using flying drones to help clinch billion-dollar M&A deals
The pandemic has forced change onto what had been one of the most old-school, technologically-resistant corners of Wall Street: investment banking.
The pandemic has forced change onto what had been one of the most old-school, technologically-resistant corners of Wall Street: investment banking.
Paul | Weiss | Nov 18, 2020 China’s competition regulator, the State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”), issued a consultation draft of the Anti-Monopoly Guidelines on the Sector of Platform Economies (the “Draft Guidelines”) on November 10, 2020. This marks China’s first major step in formulating a comprehensive regime to regulate competition among platform businesses
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The New York Times | Steven Lee Myers and Keith Bradsher | Nov 24, 2020 China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is pursuing a strategy to make the country’s economy more self-sufficient, while making other places more dependent on it than ever. After Australia dared last spring to call for an investigation into the origins of the
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"Right now, we are out of everything," Dan Hensler of So-Low Environmental Equipment told CNBC.
Crowdfund Insider | JD Alois | Nov 24, 2020 The exempt securities marketplace can be arcane and challenging to manage for entrepreneurs seeking to raise capital. The advent of online capital formation has helped to democratize access to capital as well as streamline securities offerings but hurdles do remain. A new startup co-founded by several
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Millions of workers will lose their unemployment benefits at the end of December unless Congress passes legislation.
Holiday debt typically rises every year, but in 2020 financial experts caution shoppers to stick to a budget.
The Fed could provide clues about whether it intends to change its bond buying program when it releases its minutes Wednesday.
A blended family's financial life is tricky enough in normal times. Here's how to navigate the pandemic.
As Thanksgiving approaches, long lines are popping up at food banks nationwide. Increasing jobless protections with new legislation could help, experts say.
Bloomberg | Katie Roof and Scott Deveau | Nov 24, 2020 Private financial technology business Stripe Inc. is in talks to raise a new funding round valuing it higher than its last private valuation of $36 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The valuation being discussed could be more than $70 billion or significantly
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SpaceX is aiming to launch its latest Starship rocket prototype as early as "next week," CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday
Mayer Brown | Paul Forrester | Nov 18, 2020 In its recent report “Holistic Review of the March Market Turmoil” (Report), the Financial Stability Board (FSB) notes that “[t]he March [2020] turmoil has reinforced the need to better understand interconnections and amplification channels in the financial system and to consider the nature of vulnerabilities in
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GSMA | Nov 25, 2020 GROWING AND GLOBALISING 2019 marked a major milestone for the mobile money industry: the number of registered mobile money accounts surpassed one billion. Reaching the one billion mark is a tremendous achievement for an industry that is just over a decade old. The mobile money industry of today has a
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