B2B Purchases Aren’t Made by Individuals
B2B buying decisions now involve 5‑16 stakeholders across finance, IT, operations, and executive functions, making consensus the true driver of deals. Millennials and Gen Z compose roughly 71% of these buying groups, preferring digital, collaborative research channels over traditional sales outreach. Performance marketers who continue to chase individual leads miss the multi‑person dynamics, resulting in stalled pipelines. The article argues for a shift to orchestrated, role‑specific, multi‑channel engagement that aligns with buying‑group momentum rather than isolated lead volume.
Eight Out of Ten PMax Advertisers Are Now Running CTV Ads
Eight out of ten Performance Max advertisers are now seeing connected‑TV impressions on YouTube, a shift driven by Google’s expanded CTV capabilities. Since Q2 2025 the platform has auto‑generated TV ads from product‑feed images, and in January 2026 introduced shoppable CTV formats...
Why NYC Schools Invested in Coaching for Staff Outside the Classroom
New York City’s Department of Education launched a district‑wide executive coaching program for central‑office staff, partnering with BetterUp to offer both human and AI‑driven sessions. The initiative, introduced after pandemic‑induced uncertainty, aims to build agency, agility and clarity among employees...
Coach’s Explore Your Story Campaign Is For Gen Z Bookworms
Coach has launched the “Explore Your Story” campaign linking its iconic Tabby bag with readable book charms to engage Gen Z readers. Developed with global Gen Z‑led communities, the initiative features celebrities such as Elle Fanning and Paige Bueckers selecting...
KBRA Direct Lending Deals: News & Analysis – 3/9/2026
KBRA released its latest Direct Lending Deals analysis on March 9, 2026, featuring updated default indices for the trailing‑twelve‑month period ending March 10, 2026. The report includes a performance chart that tracks default rates across the direct‑lending universe, highlighting modest upticks in recent quarters....
AGCO Names a Chief Digital and Information Officer
AGCO Corp. has appointed Jena Holtberg‑Benge as its chief digital and information officer, effective March 16. The promotion expands her remit from leading the after‑sales parts division to directing the company’s global digital, data, and IT strategy, including cybersecurity and enterprise...
The Pulse of Private Equity – 3/9/2026
The Pulse of Private Equity (3 Sept 2026) highlights a pronounced shift in BSL‑funded leveraged buyouts as sponsors confront tighter debt capacity. A decade‑long chart shows debt‑to‑EBITDA ratios falling while equity contributions climb, compressing overall EV/EBITDA multiples. Sponsors are increasingly allocating equity...
Persona Launches Candidate Verification to Stop Hiring Fraud Before Day One
Persona unveiled a Candidate Verification solution that embeds identity checks directly into hiring workflows through integrations with Ashby, Greenhouse and Workday. The service matches government‑issued IDs to live selfies and layers device, behavioral and network signals to detect deepfakes and...
Midtown Office Landlord Charles Cohen Gets Deadline to Repay $135M Debt or Face Forced Property Sales
Charles Cohen, a Midtown office landlord, was given a 45‑day deadline by a New York state Supreme Court judge to repay $135 million in outstanding debt or face forced sales of his properties. A Fortress Investment Group executive, David Moson, was...
Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis – 3/9/2026
US leveraged finance issuance exceeded $160 bn in February 2026, but slipped 11 % from January. Bank loans rebounded to $50 bn after a slower month, while high‑yield bond issuance held steady at $30 bn. Institutional loans, the bulk of the market, fell sharply...
Lindsay Goldberg Plots Build-Out of CV Investment Strategy
Lindsay Goldberg announced plans to develop a dedicated corporate‑venture (CV) investment strategy, marking its entry into the private‑equity secondaries market. The move aligns the firm with a wave of PE houses diversifying into secondary transactions to capture liquidity‑driven opportunities. By...
Energy Dept., NASA Take Steps to Oust Their Unions
On Tuesday the Department of Energy (DOE) and NASA announced steps to terminate existing collective bargaining agreements, invoking President Trump’s Executive Order 14251 that cites national security concerns. DOE issued immediate termination notices to three major federal unions, while NASA...
Bloomberg: Leveraged Lending Insights – 3/9/2026
The Bloomberg US Leveraged Loan Index (LOAN) recorded a -0.86% return in February, marking the first consecutive monthly decline since April 2025. Secondary‑market prices slipped to 94.89 on February 27, a 204‑basis‑point drop from the year‑end level of 96.93. The...
Coors Banquet Returns to Live Sports Marketing Following Growth Spurt
Coors Banquet has logged five straight years of volume growth, driven largely by Gen Z and younger drinkers. To capitalize on this momentum, Molson Coors is boosting its media budget with a double‑digit increase and re‑entering live‑sports advertising during the 2026 MLB...
Wisconsin Credit Union to Buy Local Bank
Milwaukee‑based Landmark Credit Union announced it will acquire American National Bank‑Fox Cities, adding $419 million in assets and two branches to its $7 billion portfolio. The transaction, the fifth credit‑union‑bank deal this year and the third full‑bank purchase, is slated to close...
IO River Launches Multi-CDN Edge Security With Check Point
IO River unveiled a multi‑CDN edge security platform powered by Check Point’s Web Application Firewall. The solution runs security logic directly at the edge of each CDN, eliminating the need to route traffic back to a central inspection point. By decoupling...
Rivian Spin-Out Mind Robotics Raises $500M for Industrial AI-Powered Robots
Mind Robotics, a Rivian spin‑out, closed a $500 million Series A round co‑led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz, lifting its valuation to roughly $2 billion. The funding follows a $115 million seed round, bringing total capital raised to $615 million since its November 2025 launch. The...
Women Entrepreneurs Reshape Canada’s Franchise Industry
Women entrepreneurs are rapidly reshaping Canada’s franchise landscape, moving into traditionally male‑dominated sectors such as construction, automotive, and skilled trades. The Canadian Franchise Association reports that women now own about 20% of Canadian businesses, a 17.6% rise, generating over $90 billion...
You Could Eat Pizza Hut for a Year and Get Paid over $30,000 for Doing It. But There’s a Catch
Pizza Hut has launched a “Hut Crust Connoisseur” campaign, paying $31,415.92 to a U.S. resident who will eat its pizza for a year and create video reviews. Applicants must submit a 60‑second video, meet creativity, passion, and social‑media criteria, and...
Trump Administration to Announce New Trade Investigations
The Trump administration is set to announce new trade investigations under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act, targeting practices such as excess manufacturing capacity, forced labor, digital service taxes, and currency manipulation. The inquiries, led by the Office of the...
World’s Top Bauxite Producer Considers Export Curbs After Supply Glut Leads to Price Slump
Guinea, now the world’s largest bauxite producer, is weighing export curbs as a glut has driven prices down roughly 50% since January 2025. Export shipments surged 25% to 183 million tonnes last year, far exceeding licence‑based production plans. The government is...
2 U.S. Senators Propose Gas Tax Holiday Until October in Response to Rising Prices
Two Democratic senators, Mark Kelly and Richard Blumenthal, introduced the Gas Prices Relief Act to suspend the 18.4‑cent‑per‑gallon federal gasoline tax until October 1. A companion bill will be filed in the House by Rep. Chris Pappas. The proposal aims to...
Mistral AI, Pigment, Ekimetrics: How French Scale-Ups Have Successfully Expanded Into the UK
French AI‑focused scale‑ups Ekimetrics, Pigment and Mistral AI are using London as a launchpad for European expansion, citing the UK’s $1.2 trillion market and deep talent pool. The United Kingdom’s aggressive AI investment—over £44 bn in private capital since 2024 and a...
Chimney Rock Buys Gas Clip Technologies
Chimney Rock, a private‑equity firm focused on industrial services, announced the acquisition of Gas Clip Technologies, a provider of portable gas detection solutions. The deal adds a safety‑technology platform that serves industrial, marine, utility, refining, chemical processing, and water‑wastewater markets....
Manufact Raises $6.3M as MCP Becomes the ‘USB-C for AI’ Powering ChatGPT and Claude Apps
Manufact, a YC‑backed startup, announced a $6.3 million seed round led by Peak XV to build infrastructure for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the emerging “USB‑C” standard for AI agents. The company’s open‑source mcp‑use SDK has already logged five million downloads and...
Iran Conflict Stalls Big Purchases Like Homes and Cars For 1 in 4 Americans; Most Are Undeterred
A Redfin‑commissioned survey finds 25% of Americans are delaying or canceling major purchases such as homes or cars because of the military conflict with Iran, while 56% say the war has no impact on their buying plans. The conflict’s effect...
Translucent Secures $27M for Healthcare Finance AI Platform
Translucent, an AI-native healthcare finance startup, closed a $27 million Series A round led by GV with participation from NEA, Virtue and FPV Ventures. The funding follows a $7 million seed round and will accelerate its agentic AI platform that unifies clinical, operational...
3. Barbara Casadei, MD, DPhil, on Taking Risks and Shifting Focus
Renowned cardiologist Barbara Casadei, MD, DPhil, discusses her recent appointment as Editor‑in‑Chief of JAMA Cardiology on the Hearts & Minds podcast. She reflects on how taking calculated risks has shaped her career trajectory and informs her new editorial vision. Casadei...
Millennium Hires Longtime Citadel Stockpicker
Millennium expanded its equities team, hiring a veteran Citadel stockpicker and two additional equity traders, signaling aggressive talent acquisition amid market turbulence. Meanwhile, Linedata introduced Mosaic to streamline front‑office operations, and a HedgeWeek report highlighted stagnant female partner representation in...
Unified Financial Crime Management Is Not Just For Small And Regional Banks
Financial institutions are moving beyond siloed fraud‑management and anti‑money‑laundering tools toward unified Financial Crime Management Solutions (FCMSes). The shift is driven by regulators tightening AML oversight, fraudsters blending scams with laundering, and the high cost of maintaining separate AI models...
Maersk Forced to Ship Fuel From US, Europe as Asia Bunkers Start to Run Dry
Maersk has begun sourcing marine fuel from the United States and Europe to supply its Asian fleet, after recent disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz left key Middle‑East and Asian bunkering hubs unable to meet demand. Chief commercial officer Karsten...
Uniper Proposes Resumption of Dividend Payments
Uniper SE announced it will propose a €0.72 per share dividend for 2025, marking the first payout since the 2022 government bailout. The German utility reported a net profit of €544 million and adjusted EBITDA of €1.1 billion, a sharp recovery from...
Judge to Decide if Penn Must Produce Records in Probe of Antisemitism at Ivy League School
A federal judge will decide whether the University of Pennsylvania must comply with an EEOC subpoena demanding detailed records on employees' Jewish affiliations. The EEOC is probing claims that antisemitic incidents have created a hostile work environment for faculty and...
B2BMX 2026: OpenAI’s Dane Vahey Urges B2B Marketers to Adopt a Builder Mindset
OpenAI’s B2B marketing chief Dane Vahey delivered a keynote at B2BMX 2026 urging marketers to shift from operators to builders. He highlighted how generative AI now lets individuals create solutions that previously required large teams and budgets. Vahey outlined seven...
FreeWheel Launches AI Agent Infrastructure for Premium Video Ads, Pilots with PMG
FreeWheel unveiled an AI agent infrastructure built on its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server and a suite of Intelligence tools, embedding artificial intelligence directly into premium video ad transactions. The platform enables real‑time workflow automation, performance monitoring, and decision‑making for...
Edmond De Rothschild Corporate Finance and Jasmin Capital Form Partnership for CVs
Edmond de Rothschild Corporate Finance has teamed up with placement agent Jasmin Capital to launch a joint initiative targeting co‑control transactions. The partnership will concentrate on General Partners who wish to sell a portion of their fund stakes through M&A...
New Mexico Could Backslide If It Decouples From Pro-Growth Tax Policy
New Mexico’s Senate Bill 151 would decouple the state from the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act, ending conformity with 100% bonus depreciation and adding net CFC‑tested income to the corporate tax base. The proposal also eliminates any foreign‑tax credit, creating double taxation...
UBS Maintains a Hold Rating on Apple (AAPL) As Shipmments Drop in China
UBS analyst David Vogt kept a Hold rating on Apple (AAPL) with a $280 price target, citing a sharp 37% year‑over‑year drop in iPhone shipments in China for January 2026, down to roughly 2.2 million units. The decline follows a 14%...
US Billionaire David Storch Is Preferred Bidder for Sheffield Wednesday
US billionaire David Storch’s consortium has been named the preferred bidder for Sheffield Wednesday, outbidding former Newcastle owner Mike Ashley and other suitors. The club has been in administration since October and faces a further 15‑point deduction if a £15 million...
World Leaders Will Release 400 Million Barrels of Oil to Stabilize Prices
World leaders agreed to release 400 million barrels from strategic reserves, the largest coordinated IEA drawdown ever, to counter a sharp Brent price surge after the Iran war began. Despite the announcement, Brent crude rose to about $91 per barrel, indicating...
Google Expands Search Console Branded Queries Filter to All Eligible Sites
Google has rolled out its branded queries filter in Search Console to all eligible sites, enabling native separation of branded and non‑branded traffic within the Performance report. The filter automatically classifies queries that contain brand names, variations, misspellings, or related...
Published in OJ – Commission Implementing Regulation Amending ITS on MREL Reporting by Resolution Authorities
On 11 March 2026 the EU published Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/519, amending the technical standards of Regulation 2021/622 that govern MREL reporting. The amendment revises the frequency and content of data that resolution authorities must transmit to the European...
BNP, Bradesco, Rabobank Named Among Raízen Top Creditors
Brazilian energy giant Raízen SA is seeking to restructure roughly $12.6 billion of debt out of court. Major European and Latin American banks—BNP Paribas, Banco Bradesco and Rabobank—have been identified as some of the company’s largest creditors. The restructuring plan is expected...
JEC Composites Startup Booster: Discover the 2026 Winners
The JEC Composites Startup Booster 2026 announced its winners at JEC World, after receiving more than 160 applications and selecting 20 finalists to pitch. Grand Winner Soarce showcased nanofiber composites that are eight times stronger than steel, while runner‑up nebumind...
EXCLUSIVE: FreightWaves: Rail Merger Critics Should ‘Quit Looking Backward’ – Union Pacific CEO
Union Pacific CEO urged detractors of the pending UP‑NS merger to stop dwelling on past rail consolidations and look ahead to the benefits of a combined network. The merger, filed with the Surface Transportation Board, seeks to create America’s first...
Less Than Half of Employees Trust Their Leaders. Here’s How to Be Different.
Less than half of employees trust senior leaders, a gap that hampers performance and change readiness. The article outlines five concrete actions—showing up in person, embracing transparency, holding regular 1:1s, living core values, and granting autonomy—to rebuild trust. The author...
Aspen Insurance CIO Aileen Mathieson Departs
Aspen Insurance announced that Chief Investment Officer Aileen Mathieson is leaving the firm. The Bermuda‑based specialty insurer, which manages a $6.9 billion investment portfolio, was recently acquired by Japan’s Sompo Holdings. Mathieson's departure comes as the new ownership begins integrating Aspen...
Strait of Hormuz Strikes Fuel Fresh Fears over Bond Volatility
Bond market volatility spiked on Wednesday after three cargo vessels were struck near the Strait of Hormuz, pushing 10‑year U.S. Treasury yields from just above 4.14% to near 4.20%. The attacks revive concerns over oil‑supply disruptions, keeping Brent crude roughly...
Rosewood Hotel Group Introduces Global Gender-Neutral Parental Leave Standard of 16 Weeks Fully Paid Leave for Associates
Rosewood Hotel Group announced a Global Parental Leave Policy that guarantees 16 weeks of fully paid leave for eligible associates worldwide, effective January 1, 2026. The gender‑neutral standard tops up any local entitlement that falls short of the 16‑week benchmark,...
Italy to Ask for Immediate EU ETS Suspension
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced that Italy will request an immediate suspension of the EU Emissions Trading System for fossil‑fuel‑fired power generators, arguing the scheme adds roughly €30/MWh, or about a quarter of household electricity costs. The move is...