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UBS Edges Toward a Softer Capital Regime as Bern Weighs a Compromise
Swiss business groups and lawmakers rally behind a deal that could trim roughly $10bn from proposed buffers, easing fears of a competitiveness hit and a home‑market backlash. Lead UBS has received a tailwind in its campaign to dilute Switzerland’s toughest‑in‑Europe…
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Volkswagen’s Big Software Reset
Inside the carmaker’s high‑stakes plan to outcode Tesla and outflank China’s EV insurgents Wolfsburg & Munich For nearly half a decade, Volkswagen’s biggest bottleneck wasn’t batteries or factories. It was code. Delays inside the group’s software arm, Cariad, rippled through…
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Licensing the Future: Universal and Warner Race to Set the Rules for AI and Music
As landmark deals near, record labels push streaming-style payments and attribution tech to govern how AI trains on — and generates — music A template for training data — and AI-generated tracks Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group are…
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Private Equity’s Reckoning: Why the Rush for Retail Money Could Tarnish the Industry
Neuberger Berman’s alternatives chief warns that aggressive fundraising from wealthy individuals and semi-liquid ‘evergreen’ funds may sow the seeds for reputational blowback across private markets Private equity’s long courtship of institutional investors is giving way to a full-throated pursuit of…
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Drilling for Heat: How Oil and Gas Fracturing Could Supercharge Geothermal Power
Once confined to volcanic regions and district heating, a new wave of ‘enhanced’ techniques aims to make clean, always‑on geothermal available almost anywhere Geothermal energy today supplies less than half a percent of global energy demand. Most of that contribution…
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Sticker Shock Returns: UK Shop Price Inflation Hits 18‑Month High
Beef and dairy keep tills ringing as September’s BRC-NIQ reading climbs to 1.4%, intensifying pressure on household budgets LONDON — UK shop price inflation accelerated in September to 1.4% year on year, the highest reading in 18 months and up…
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The Musk Exodus
Why senior leaders are filing out of Tesla, Optimus and xAI in 2024–2025 Elon Musk’s companies have always run hot. High ambition and high attrition are part of the lore at SpaceX and Tesla, where engineers brag about sleeping under…
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Inside the EA Takeover: How Kushner’s Gulf Network Helped Seal Wall Street’s Biggest Buyout
Saudi capital, private equity muscle and a well‑connected fixer converge in a $55 billion bid to take Electronic Arts private On Monday, September 29, 2025, the board of Electronic Arts approved a proposal to take the video‑game publisher private in…
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The $1 Trillion Quarter: Megadeals Put M&A Back on the Front Foot
A record run of fourteen $10bn-plus transactions pushed global deal value past the $1tn mark in Q3 2025 — and bankers say the long‑promised Trump‑era boom may finally be here. Global mergers and acquisitions roared back this summer. In the…
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After Tricolor’s Fall: What a Subprime Auto Lender’s Collapse Reveals About Financial Fragility at the Bottom
A September 2025 look at how the sudden liquidation of Tricolor ripples through borrowers, banks and bond markets—even as headline indicators say the U.S. economy is still holding up. DALLAS — Tricolor Holdings, a prominent buy-here-pay-here used‑car chain and subprime…
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