Thordon Bearings Makes Two Key Appointments
Thordon Bearings announced two strategic appointments: Anthony Hamilton as Vice President of Engineering and Product Development for the Thomson‑Gordon Group, and Martin Linder as Merchant Fleet Marine Business Development Manager for Northern Europe. Both hires aim to expand the company’s high‑performance, pollution‑free seawater‑lubricated bearing portfolio and accelerate market penetration, especially for the T‑BOSS dry‑chamber shaft solution. The moves reflect rising demand for eco‑friendly marine propulsion components across tanker, bulk carrier, container and cruise ship segments.
Goldman Says the US Could Lose 10,000 Jobs a Month This Year as the Oil Shock Ripples Through the Economy
Goldman Sachs warns that the recent oil price shock could erase about 10,000 new jobs each month in the United States through the end of 2026. The bank projects the unemployment rate climbing to roughly 4.6% by year‑end, driven by...
Recordati Says It's Received a $12B+ Takeover Bid
Italian pharmaceutical group Recordati announced it has received a takeover proposal valued at more than $12 billion. The bid, disclosed in a press release, comes from an undisclosed consortium of investors. Recordati, known for specialty drugs and generics, said the offer...
US Sells 7-Year Notes at 4.255% vs 4.252% WI
The U.S. Treasury auctioned $44 billion of 7‑year notes at a 4.255% yield, just 0.3 basis points above the when‑issued rate, a tighter tail than the 2.0 bps and 1.3 bps seen in recent 2‑year and 5‑year sales. Meanwhile, 2‑year yields surged 8.8 bps...
WTO's Dispute Settlement System Should Be Fully Functional, Says Piyush Goyal
India urged WTO members to restore a fully functional dispute settlement system, warning that the current paralysis deprives nations of effective redress. Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal also called for a careful review of the ongoing moratorium on customs duties for...
Middle East’s Fundraising Oasis Awaits GPs Who Are Willing to Commit
Private equity fundraising in the Middle East is entering a boom, with capital commitments reaching multi‑billion‑dollar levels. Sovereign wealth funds and regional investors are increasingly favoring general partners who demonstrate deep, long‑term commitment to the market. The region’s regulatory reforms...
Solicitor Claims He Was Left ‘Firefighting’ as Staff Left over Being Denied Working From Home
Solicitor Joseph McNally is suing Ferrys Solicitors LLP for an alleged sham redundancy after his Dublin practice was merged into the firm in early 2023. McNally claims staff left the Ballymun office when remote‑work requests were denied, forcing him into "firefighting" to retain upset...
A Sticky Business: Csquare CEO Spencer Mullee on the Colo Firm's Future Plans
Csquare, the Dallas‑based colocation arm of Brookfield, announced a $1 billion cash purchase of ten data‑center sites across the United States and Canada, expanding its footprint in key metros. The company completed the merger of Evoque and Cyxtera assets in just...
A Praiseworthy Deal Gives Great Plains A Big Bump
Great Plains Christian Radio Inc., owner of KJIL‑FM 99.1 in Copeland, Kansas, announced a pending purchase of nine full‑power FM stations and five translators from The Praise Network Inc. The assets span small towns across Eastern Colorado and Kansas, extending the...
The Iran War Has Already Unleashed a $25 Billion Energy Repair Bill
The ongoing Iran conflict has already generated an estimated $25 billion in energy‑sector repair costs, according to industry analysts. Damage to key oil refineries, pipelines and the strategic Kharg Island hub is forcing Iran to divert resources toward emergency reconstruction. The...
Streamticker: The Biggest Streaming Mergers and Acquisitions of 2025
The 2025 Streamticker roundup chronicles a wave of high‑value mergers reshaping streaming, advertising, and infrastructure. DIRECTV’s acquisition of INVIDI strengthens addressable TV ad solutions, while Outbrain’s $1 billion purchase of Teads creates a $1.7 billion omnichannel ad platform. DAZN’s $2.2 billion buy of...
Your Company Could Be Hooked On This Negative Motivation Pattern — Here’s How to Fix It
The article warns that many companies operate on a dopamine‑driven “reward‑now” model that fuels urgency but erodes deep focus, creativity and sustainable performance. It contrasts this with a serotonin‑based culture that emphasizes connection, deep work, and steady satisfaction, citing examples...
How Gartner® Evaluates Revenue Action Orchestration Platforms Across the Revenue Lifecycle
Gartner’s new Critical Capabilities report expands its Magic Quadrant analysis to evaluate Revenue Action Orchestration platforms on functional depth. It assesses vendors across four core revenue use cases—acquiring new customers, retaining and growing accounts, managing pipeline and forecasts, and coaching...
The 7 Core Principles That Forged Our Company’s Path to Becoming a Market Leader
Oxylabs celebrated its 10‑year anniversary by surveying more than 45 leaders across the company and distilling seven core leadership principles that propelled it from a scrappy startup to a market‑leading web‑scraping provider. The principles—ranging from pushing business forward to building...
Collectly Acquires AI Automation Startup Pledge Health to Streamline Pre-Service Workflows
Collectly, an AI‑driven patient financial platform that has processed over $1 billion for more than 3,000 facilities, announced the acquisition of Y Combinator‑backed Pledge Health. The deal adds upstream pre‑service automation—coverage verification, cost estimates, and prior‑auth readiness—to Collectly’s existing post‑visit billing suite....
Davidson Kempner: Opportunistic Credit Could Benefit From ‘Capital Structure Reset’
Davidson Kempner’s new white paper warns that mounting stress in private‑equity funds and their portfolio companies is likely to trigger a wave of capital‑structure resets. Higher interest rates and elevated leverage are pushing many firms toward refinancing, covenant breaches, and...
CBRE Investment Management Names New Leaders for Direct Real Estate
CBRE Investment Management appointed Laura Dunn as head of its Americas direct real‑estate commercial operator division, effective March 17. Dunn will oversee transactions and asset‑management across retail, office, life‑science, self‑storage and medical‑office properties. Colin Rosenbaum was also promoted to lead...
UAE Advances Alternative Trade Route to Bypass Strait of Hormuz
The United Arab Emirates is fast‑tracking a new trade corridor that connects its eastern Khorfakkan port in Sharjah to Saudi Arabia’s Dammam, allowing cargo to bypass the Strait of Hormuz. The corridor combines maritime access via the Gulf of Oman...
Ferrero Plans Largest Marketing Commitment to Date for World Cup Push
Ferrero North America announced its largest ever marketing spend, a $100 million “Go All In” campaign tied to the 2026 FIFA World Cup and Easter. The promotion, starring Tom Brady, invites shoppers to scan QR codes on Ferrero products for a...
Employee Hiring Referrals Can Trigger Hidden Biases
Employee referrals remain a popular hiring tool, but new research from the University of Maryland and Texas Christian University reveals a hidden "referral penalty." Even when referred candidates clear rigorous interviews and outperform peers, coworkers often view them as less...
Healthcare-Focused PE Firm Linden Mulls Secondaries Strategy
Chicago-based private equity firm Linden, which specializes in healthcare investments, is evaluating a move into the secondary market. The firm joins a wave of buyout houses expanding into secondaries to tap growing demand for liquidity among limited partners. By leveraging...
Ipsos: Monthly Declaration of Shares and Voting Rights - February 2026
Ipsos disclosed its February 2026 share count and voting rights in the required monthly filing. The company has 43,203,225 shares outstanding, with theoretical voting rights of 49,276,265 and exercisable voting rights of 49,093,732. The figures include all shares attached to voting...
OpenAI's Laura Modiano on Hackathons, Lovable and How Startups Can Partner with the Tech Giant
OpenAI has appointed Laura Modiano to head its European startup team, where she actively scouts talent at hackathons, events, and investor gatherings. Modiano shares how she automates outreach, the traits she values in promising AI startups, and her criteria when...
BCRED Issues CLO Following Redemptions, Turbulence in NAV
BCRED, a business development company, issued a new collateralized loan obligation (CLO) to shore up its balance sheet after a wave of investor redemptions. The move follows a 0.4% drop in February NAV, marking the BDC’s first monthly loss in...
New UPS Distribution Center in Taiwan Doubles Capacity, Productivity
UPS unveiled its largest Asia‑Pacific logistics hub, a $100 million, 872,000‑sq‑ft automated distribution center in Taiwan. The facility, located three miles from Taoyuan International Airport, more than doubles UPS’s warehouse footprint in the country and serves high‑value sectors such as semiconductors...
DEME: Publication of the Annual Report 2025
DEME Group NV released its 2025 Annual Report, the fourth since its 2022 Euronext listing. The report highlights a record‑high profitability year, reinforcing the momentum built over recent years. It also details progress on ESG initiatives and outlines the strategic...
ESG Round-Up: CoEPB Backs Climate Policy Shareholder Proposal at Volvo
The Committee on European Pension Funds (CoEPB) has publicly backed a shareholder proposal urging Volvo to adopt a more ambitious climate policy, including tighter emissions targets. The move reflects growing activist pressure on automakers to align with the Paris Agreement....
IFRS Foundation Proposes Updates to Agriculture, Power Sector Sustainability Reporting Standards
Today the IFRS Foundation’s International Sustainability Standards Board issued exposure drafts proposing amendments to three sector‑focused SASB standards covering Agricultural Products, Meat, Poultry & Dairy, and Electric Utilities & Power Generators. The revisions expand scope to direct farming operations, add...
Tieto: Share Repurchases on 26.3.2026
Finnish software firm TietoEVRY announced a share repurchase on March 26, 2026, buying 60,000 TIETO shares at an average price of €17.6739 per share, costing approximately $1.16 million USD. The transaction brings the company’s treasury holdings to 1,936,693 shares. The buyback...
Blacklane: The Yin to Uber’s Yang?
Uber is reportedly close to acquiring premium chauffeur service Blacklane for roughly $1.03 bn, a move that would add a high‑margin, pre‑booked offering to its portfolio. Blacklane operates in about 500 cities across more than 50 countries, serving business and luxury...
Approved Annual Accounts for 2025
AF Gruppen ASA, a major Norwegian construction firm, approved its 2025 audited accounts on March 26, 2026. The company reported profit before tax of NOK 1.653 billion (≈$182 million) and net profit of NOK 1.289 billion (≈$142 million) after a NOK 365 million ($40 million) tax...
Lendingplate Announces 40.5 Lakh ESOPs to Strengthen Employee Ownership
LendingPlate, the digital‑first lending arm of Unifinz Capital India, announced the grant of 40.5 lakh (4,050,000) employee stock options under its UCIL ESOP 2025 scheme. Each option carries a face value of Rs 10 (≈ $0.12) and can be exercised at the same price,...
This New Perk for Amex’s Business Cards Is a Big Bet on the Future of AI
American Express is rolling out a $300 annual statement credit on its U.S. Business Platinum and Business Gold cards for ChatGPT Business subscriptions, launching this spring. The perk aims to help enterprise customers offset AI software costs and boost productivity....
Oil Price Surge Is Hurting African Economies: Scholars in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa Take Stock
Oil prices surged above $100 a barrel after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, prompting Tehran to close the Strait of Hormuz, which carries roughly 20% of global oil. The disruption has sent fuel costs soaring across Africa, prompting...
Scale Partners with Mastercard to Simplify Card Issuance Across Five African Markets
South African fintech Scale has teamed up with Mastercard to launch a one‑integration card‑issuing platform across Senegal, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The partnership consolidates issuing banks, payment networks and BIN sponsors into a single onboarding flow, cutting time‑to‑market...
ContextVision AB: Transactions Made Under the Buy-Back Programme
ContextVision AB announced that its share buy‑back programme, originally capped at NOK 10 million (≈$1.1 million) and 4 million shares, was extended to 11 May 2026. Between 18 March and 26 March 2026 the company repurchased 1,306,216 shares for NOK 4.98 million (≈$550 k), bringing total buy‑back holdings to 2,547,673 shares, or...
Intercom's New Post-Trained Fin Apex 1.0 Beats GPT-5.4 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 at Customer Service Resolutions
Intercom unveiled Fin Apex 1.0, a purpose‑built AI model that powers its Fin customer‑service agent handling over two million weekly conversations. Benchmarks show a 73.1% resolution rate, edging out OpenAI’s GPT‑5.4 and Anthropic’s Claude models by roughly two percentage points....
Custodian Property Income REIT Plc: Share Buyback
Custodian Property Income REIT plc announced the latest tranche of its share buyback programme, purchasing 200,000 ordinary shares on 24‑26 March 2026. The two purchases of 100,000 shares each were executed at 78.8p and 79.1p per share, costing roughly $100,000...
IDB Invest Annual Report 2025
IDB Invest released its 2025 Annual Report, highlighting a landmark year of record performance. Total activity reached $13.1 billion, including $7.7 billion in mobilized capital, driven by strong demand and early effects of the IDBInvest+ reforms. The report details the rollout of...
Spectator, Beneficiary, Player: Russia’s Strategy in the Iran War, From Oil to Drones
Russia is adopting a calibrated stance in the Iran war, offering diplomatic backing and possibly drone assistance to Tehran while steering clear of direct military engagement. Simultaneously, Moscow has dispatched modest oil shipments to Cuba as low‑cost geopolitical signaling. The...
DSV and Renaissance Philanthropy Set Out to Rewire Crop Resilience Innovation
Deep Science Ventures (DSV) and Renaissance Philanthropy have launched a venture‑creation project to build deep‑tech spin‑outs that boost crop resilience against climate extremes. The initiative, part of their Climate Emergencies Resilience Lab, moves beyond static genetic modification by focusing on...
India, US Face Off over E-Commerce Moratorium at WTO Meet
India has asked WTO members to carefully reconsider the e‑commerce duty moratorium, warning of revenue losses and an ambiguous definition of "electronic transmissions." The United States, meanwhile, is pressing for the moratorium to become a permanent, duty‑free regime to protect...
Power Management Company Claros Raises $30m Seed Round
Claros, a power‑management startup, raised a $30 million seed round led by General Catalyst and Red Cell Partners. The funding will accelerate development of its integrated voltage regulator (IVR) and Power Gateway direct‑current distribution platform. The IVR claims up to 30%...
India Holds Bilateral Meetings with EU, Russia, NZ, Others on MC14 Sidelines
India’s Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal conducted bilateral meetings with delegations from the EU, Russia, New Zealand, Peru and Mexico on the sidelines of the WTO’s 14th ministerial conference. The talks reviewed progress on the recently concluded India‑EU free trade agreement and...
Belt-Tightening Mode
The Philippines is entering a belt‑tightening phase as a four‑week‑old Middle East conflict drives global oil prices higher, eroding the peso and inflating consumer costs. A temporary suspension of petroleum excise taxes will cut government revenue by roughly $2.5 billion, potentially...
Women’s Health Ripe for Private Equity Investments, Finds Kearney’s Paula Bellostas Muguerza
Private equity firms are increasingly targeting women's health, a sector seen as under‑capitalized and high‑growth. The $18.3 billion Blackstone‑TPG take‑private of diagnostic‑equipment maker Hologic is being cited as a bellwether transaction. Analysts at Kearney, led by Paula Bellostas Muguerza, argue that fragmented...
Multiply Raises $9.5M, Focused on B2B Self-Learning Ads
Multiply, an AI‑native media agency for B2B firms, emerged from stealth with a $9.5 million Series A led by Mayfield. Its self‑learning advertising platform links Google Search and LinkedIn campaigns to sales call recordings, CRM data, and performance metrics, automatically generating and...
Fastned CFO Victor Van Dijk Becomes VP of Strategy
Fastned announced that long‑time CFO Victor van Dijk will leave the executive board to become Vice President of Strategy, joining the leadership team directly below the board. In his new role, van Dijk will shape the company’s long‑term vision, equity...
The 4-Conversation Playbook I Use to Retain Top Talent During AI Disruption
Leaders facing AI-driven change risk losing their strongest employees unless they provide clear direction, purpose, and trust. The article outlines a four‑conversation playbook—covering strategic direction, individual relevance, ownership boundaries, and personal benefit—to keep top talent engaged. By articulating why AI...
Upgrade Your Creative Performance with March’s Demand Gen Drop.
Google’s Demand Gen platform now includes AI‑powered Veo, which turns static images into video ad variations, helping advertisers achieve “Excellent” ad strength. The suite also expands creator partnerships, enabling authentic YouTube Shorts content that lifts conversion rates by roughly 30 %....