July 13, 2023
Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, was arrested and charged with fraud, a U.S. prosecutor in New York said Thursday, while three federal regulatory agencies sued him and his company. Mashinsky, 57, was …
June 8, 2023
Coinbase Chief Executive Brian Armstrong on Wednesday hit back at U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler over the agency’s lawsuit against the crypto exchange, calling him an “outlier,” while also reassuring customers that their funds were safe. …
May 1, 2023
Regulators seized First Republic Bank and sold its assets to JPMorgan Chase & Co. on Monday, in a deal to resolve the largest U.S. bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis and draw a line under a lingering banking turmoil. …
September 20, 2022
Shares of Corebridge Financial Inc opened 2 percent below the IPO price in their New York Stock Exchange debut on Thursday, giving the company a valuation of $13.2 billion, dimming hopes of a revival in U.S. listings as market turmoil …
August 22, 2022
Broker Marsh, a unit of Marsh & McLennan, said on Monday it was launching the world’s first dedicated insurance for hydrogen energy projects, as the nascent industry looks to scale up quickly in the fight against climate change. As the …
June 24, 2022
Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management said on Wednesday it had raised $15 billion for its first impact fund focused on the global transition to a net-zero carbon economy. The fundraise comes at a time when investors and lawmakers across the globe …
August 30, 2021
The legal tussle around special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) intensified on Friday as a group of U.S. law firms hit out against lawsuits last week that called for blank-check firms to be regulated as investment companies. SPACs are acquisition vehicles …
July 23, 2021
Shares of Ryan Specialty Group Holdings Inc rose 9% in their New York Stock Exchange Debut on Thursday, fetching a market capitalization of $6.5 billion for the insurance brokerage founded and led by industry veteran Patrick Ryan. The stock opened …
July 9, 2021
Morgan Stanley has disclosed that personal data of some of its corporate clients was stolen in January in a data breach that involved a third-party vendor and hackers accessed information, including social security numbers. Files stolen also included client names, …
May 3, 2021
Warren Buffett ended long-running speculation about his successor at Berkshire Hathaway Inc by saying Greg Abel, who oversees the conglomerate’s non-insurance businesses, would be named chief executive if he were to step down. Buffett, 90, told CNBC that “the directors …