Silver Lake’s quest for ‘big all-in bets’
Plus, private credit swoops in on loan books
Mergers & Acquisitions
Linda Yaccarino’s vision for Twitter 2.0 emerges
CEO hits ground running with plans for new advertisement offering while telling staff to ready for ‘hand-to-hand combat’
Advertising, Social Media, Mergers & Acquisitions
Microsoft and Activision CEOs fight for their $75bn deal in court hearing
Judge could decide as early as next week whether to grant a US regulator’s request to put the gaming acquisition on ice
Mergers & Acquisitions
Big US banks would lose $541bn in doomsday scenario, predicts Fed
Annual stress tests show lenders with more than enough capital to weather economic catastrophe
Financial & markets regulation
Silver Lake’s Egon Durban says firm focused on ‘all-in bets’
Tech-focused buyout group to make ‘handful or two of large, really important investments a year’
Mergers & Acquisitions
Push payment fraud complaints rise
Losses rose to £485mn, despite fall in cases at banks that joined compensation scheme
Financial & markets regulation
Central bank chiefs say interest rates will keep rising
Fed, ECB and other leaders say tight labour markets mean most aggressive tightening in a generation must continue
Central banks
KKR/Circor: congratulations, your underbid has won the deal
It looks very odd for a winning bid to be so much lower than a losing offer
Mergers & Acquisitions
Bank of England governor signals interest rates likely to stay higher for longer
Andrew Bailey suggests financial markets are wrong in their bets about future monetary policy
Central banks
The revolution will now be TikToked
Smartphones gave us unprecedented insight into Russia’s latest coup attempt
Social Media