SpaceX has priced the world’s largest initial public offering at $135 a share, raising $75bn and giving Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and AI group a valuation of about $1.77tn before its Nasdaq debut under the ticker SPCX. The deal places a formerly private strategic technology company beside the largest names in public markets and gives…
Finance hiring has never attracted more applicants per role. According to Gem’s 2026 Recruiting Benchmarks Report, which analyzed 165 million applicants, a candidate today is 3.3 times less likely to be hired than they were four years ago. In finance specifically, only 0.3% of applicants make it through to a hire, and the average time to…
AI board decision-making is becoming a live governance issue for UK companies as directors move from asking whether artificial intelligence can improve operations to asking which decisions it should influence inside the boardroom. A Board Intelligence poll of 400 board directors, chief executives and finance chiefs found that 84% of respondents said their boards had…
Proprietary trading gets a lot of attention because, on the surface, the model sounds direct: a firm trades for its own account rather than handling client money. That part is easy to say. The harder part is building a structure that can support the way proprietary trading actually behaves once real market pressure starts to…
When a business changes hands, a patent gets licensed, or an investment portfolio gets stress-tested, one question surfaces almost immediately: what is this actually worth? The answer is rarely a single number pulled from a formula. Instead, experts estimate fair value by triangulating multiple valuation models, each examining the subject from a different angle. The…
President Donald Trump’s warning that the United States “must respond” after a U.S. Army Apache helicopter was shot down near the Strait of Hormuz is reviving concerns that oil prices, shipping expenses and inflation could move higher again. The incident has sharpened attention on one of the world’s most important energy corridors at a time…
For years, recurring revenue was the foundation of the private equity investment case for software companies. Subscription contracts, predictable cash flows and high customer retention rates helped justify rich valuations and substantial leverage. That formula is now under pressure. The sharp slowdown in software buyouts during 2026 is more than a temporary pause in dealmaking….
Every spring, the same thing happens. Retirees who spent the winter in Naples, Sarasota, or Fort Myers start packing up, and somewhere on the to-do list sits a question that catches a lot of people off guard: what to do with the second car. Driving 1,200 miles back isn’t appealing when you’ve already booked the…
A little creativity can go a long way when you’re trying to engage consumers in what you offer. With so many websites and platforms competing for consumers’ attention, however, you’ll need to be quick to capture someone’s attention. And you’ll need compelling visuals to do it. Today’s competitive digital landscape demands a better approach to…
Private equity due diligence has grown considerably more sophisticated over the past two decades, yet the same categories of oversight appear with striking regularity across failed deals. Financial modeling has become more granular, legal review more exhaustive, and management interviews more structured. Despite these improvements, a consistent gap persists between what the due diligence process…