France could ease trader layoffs to attract more finance companies

“You cannot fully benefit from our social model, in particular on unemployment benefits, and at the…

Got $60 Million? Goldman Sachs Wants to Lend You More

Goldman Sachs has given up on lending to Main Street consumers. Now it’s doubling down on…

BlackRock to Buy Global Infrastructure Partners for $12.5 Billion

BlackRock has agreed to buy private-equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners for roughly $12.5 billion in cash…

WSJ News Exclusive | Blackstone Taps Two Firm Veterans to Help Oversee Trillion-Dollar Asset Pile

Blackstone is promoting two senior executives to the newly created roles of co-chief investment officers as…

WSJ News Exclusive | Jeff Bezos Bets on a Google Challenger Using AI to Try to Upend Internet Search

Perplexity, with a fraction of Google’s users, raised the largest sum by an internet search startup…

WSJ News Exclusive | Fisher Investments in Sale Talks

Updated Jan. 2, 2024 6:00 pm ET Advent International is in talks to acquire Fisher Investments,…

‘This Can’t Go On for Much Longer.’ Private Equity’s Deal Lament

Private-equity firms usually drive dealmaking on Wall Street. In 2023, they sat it out. High interest…

Private Equity Faces Gloomy Fundraising Forecast for 2024

Dec. 29, 2023 6:00 am ET|WSJ Pro Private-equity firms are preparing for an extended period of…

WSJ News Exclusive | Sale of Silicon Valley Bank’s Old Venture Capital Arm Hits a Snag

A process to sell the venture-capital arm of bankrupt SVB Financial, the former parent of Silicon Valley Bank,…

WSJ News Exclusive | E-Signature Company DocuSign Explores a Deal

E-signature company DocuSign is working with advisers to explore a sale, in what could be one…