Monzo explores fundraising at £7.5bn valuation as private equity talks stall

Lender had shifted focus to talks with buyout groups after failing to clinch a £10bn takeover by Brazilian fintech Nubank

Posted on Friday November 06, 2026

Macquarie has ‘runway’ for growth, says outgoing chief

Half-year profits at ‘millionaires factory’ jump 50% to A$2.5bn as CEO signs off after eight years in role

Posted on Friday November 06, 2026

Ark Invest wants to bring some ‘disruptive innovation’ to interval funds

Tokenised, exchange-traded interval funds with venture capital exposure and hedge fund-level fees. What could go wrong?

Posted on Friday November 06, 2026

The AI gamble strains for more cash

But true believers in the technology are still angling to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars

Posted on Friday November 06, 2026

Blackstone doubles lock-up periods for some Asian investors

BXPE to impose penalty on clients in Singapore and Hong Kong for withdrawals within first four years

Posted on Friday November 06, 2026

Asian markets battered after Wall Street AI rout

Investors fear Democrats will seek to slow US data centre build-out that underpins the AI boom

Posted on Friday November 06, 2026

Is the AI stock bubble finally bursting?

Any reasonable person can see the hallmarks of an unsustainable party in markets

Posted on Friday November 06, 2026

America turns on Trump’s tech cheerleaders

Silicon Valley elites and AI executives plot new political strategy after alliance with US president backfires in midterms

Posted on Friday November 06, 2026

The post-midterms playbook for America Inc

Robust institutions have been and always will be the bedrock of US capitalism

Posted on Friday November 06, 2026

Who is in the line of fire after the midterm drubbing?

The Trump administration reckons with the Democratic Party’s emphatic victory in the US midterms

Posted on Friday November 06, 2026