Monte dei Paschi explores Banco BPM takeover after ‘merger of equals’ talks collapse
MPS chief executive weighs approach to Banco BPM’s largest shareholder, Crédit Agricole
National/regional news and analysis
Walter insurers paid millions of dollars to credit rating provider Egan-Jones
Billionaire investor faces wide-ranging probe into the private credit holdings of insurers he controls
Morgan Stanley’s IPO after-party: a wealth management bonanza
Bank’s underwriting of SpaceX and other new issues generates $74bn second-quarter haul in wealth management assets
Foreign bidders woo UK companies with ‘bear hug’ takeover offers
London-listed businesses face surge in unsolicited public offers that aim to pressure boards into acceptance
Special edition: Wall Street’s wild week
Inside the tumult at Situational Awareness and Fifa abandons its World Cup deal
Situational Awareness got the future right but misread the past
Leopold Aschenbrenner thought AI-related stocks would go one way; they went the other. The mistake was funding the trades with debt
Higher earners warned over taper tax trap on pensions
Surge in savers hit by pension tax charges due to complex rules, say wealth managers
Is Lloyds Bank’s techie boss a secret AI contrarian?
The possibility of consumers delegating financial tasks to agentic AI poses a new risk for lenders
How the West End’s landlords are preparing London for Saudi summers
Redesign of the capital’s squares and buildings for a future of more heat and floods
Citadel’s swoop on Situational Awareness helped stem a $3tn AI rout
Investors say the hedge fund deal reassured jittery traders in tech stocks
Pages
