Today's Finance Pulse
SpaceX files for record‑size IPO, targeting $50B‑plus raise and $1T valuation
SpaceX confidentially filed for an IPO slated for June 2026, aiming to raise at least $50 billion and push its valuation above $1 trillion. Founder Elon Musk holds roughly 44 percent of the company, giving him a net worth of about $823 billion. The filing positions the rocket and satellite maker among the most valuable public companies ever.
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By the numbers: Berkshire Hathaway invests $10B in Alphabet's private placement
Tether Hires a 'Big Four' Firm for a Full Audit of USDT Reserves
Tether announced it has engaged an unnamed Big Four accounting firm to perform its first full financial‑statement audit of the $184 billion USDT stablecoin. The audit will scrutinize the token’s assets, liabilities, internal controls and reporting processes, moving beyond the periodic attestations the company has previously issued. By selecting a firm that meets Big Four audit standards, Tether aims to address long‑standing doubts about whether USDT is fully backed by liquid reserves. The move comes amid heightened regulatory scrutiny of stablecoins and investor calls for greater transparency.
Trump’s Policies Erode Market Integrity, Enabling Scams
The damage Trump has done to the integrity of financial markets is one of the biggest stains of this entire administration. The deregulation and financial market innovation are positive but they don't need to come at the expense of rampant...
Bank of Montreal Launches Tokenized Cash Platform with CME and Google
Bank of Montreal (BMO) announced a tokenized cash platform built with CME Group and Google Cloud, aiming to deliver near‑instant settlement for capital‑market participants. The service will allow continuous fund movement, eliminating traditional banking‑hour constraints and reducing capital tied up...
The EBA Publishes Its Second MREL Impact Assessment Report
The European Banking Authority released its second impact assessment of the Minimum Requirement for Own Funds and Eligible Liabilities (MREL). The report finds that by the end of 2024 EU resolution entities hold MREL‑eligible instruments equal to 34.7% of total...
Redeemers: Tiny Elite Hold 11.6% of ARES Shares
Interesting nugget in the $ARES ASIF letter, detailing who the redeemers were (11.6% of shares outstanding) ‘The majority of repurchase requests were made by a limited number of family offices and smaller institutions in select geographies who represent less than...
Salzgitter AG Narrows FY25 Loss, Keeps Dividend, Sets FY26 Growth Target
Salzgitter AG announced that its fiscal 2025 loss narrowed sharply from the prior year while the board upheld the quarterly dividend. The steelmaker also unveiled a FY26 outlook that projects revenue and EBITDA growth, highlighting the CFO’s role in cost...
Insufficient Source Data to Report on Federal Reserve Requirement Overhaul
The requested story on the overhaul of bank reserve requirements cannot be produced because none of the supplied source articles contain information on the regulatory change, its participants, or its financial impact.
Euler Motors Raises $47 Mn in Series E Round Led by Lightrock
Euler Motors secured a $47 million Series E round led by Lightrock, complemented by roughly $30 million in debt financing. The funding will boost product development, manufacturing capacity, and its dealer network across India. Revenue grew 12% to about $23 million in FY25 while...
The Bipartisan Budget Act Audit Regime
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 introduced a centralized audit system for partnerships, restricting Administrative Adjustment Requests (AARs) once the IRS issues a Notice of Administrative Proceeding (NAP). This limitation can trap taxpayers, as illustrated by an estate‑partnership scenario where...
Danantara’s First Year Sparks Doubts over Investment Focus, Economic Role
Indonesia’s Danantara fund, launched a year ago to operate like a sovereign wealth fund while managing state assets, has largely focused on direct support to domestic firms. In its first twelve months it pumped $1.4 billion into Garuda Indonesia, $295 million into...
Omnes, Apex to Tokenize Bitcoin Mining Exposure via Structured Note on Base
Omnes and Apex Group announced a tokenized secured debt note, the Omnes Mining Note (OMN), that provides institutional investors exposure to Bitcoin mining hash‑rate on Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer‑2 network. The structured note packages mining output into a regulated on‑chain...
JBA Risk Management Brings Out Enhanced Global Flood Model
JBA Risk Management has launched an upgraded global flood model that features richer hazard maps, a broader suite of future climate scenarios, faster processing, and finer exposure‑disaggregation. The enhancements give insurers, corporates and asset managers a clearer view of current...
DevX To Raise ₹35 Cr From Founders, Infibeam Projects
Indian coworking operator DevX announced a ₹35 crore (~$4.2 million) capital raise within six months of its September 2025 IPO. The board approved ₹15 crore in warrants for co‑founders and a ₹20 crore equity injection from Infibeam Projects Management, giving the latter a 4.7%...
Brex Lands OpenAI as a Customer to Manage Its Global Corporate Spend and Financial Operations
OpenAI has selected Brex’s AI‑native corporate card and spend‑management platform to run its global financial operations. The deal incorporates Brex’s new ChatGPT integration, enabling finance teams to query expense data and policy details directly in a chat interface. Brex reports...
Agents for Finance Startup Zalos Raises $3.6M to Transform Finance Departments
Zalos, a London‑San Francisco fintech, raised a $3.6 million seed round led by 14Peaks Capital to develop AI agents that automate finance‑team workflows. The startup’s agents log into existing ERP, CRM, spreadsheet, and banking systems, handling tasks without requiring a stack...
Bond And Loan Financing
The article clarifies how municipal bonds differ from bank loans, emphasizing that bonds do not create money while loans do through deposit creation. It walks through a $900 bond issuance, showing how an investment‑bank underwriter sells the securities, deducts fees,...
Is There an Optimal Number of Public Companies? (Part 1)
The article examines whether there is an optimal number of public companies in the United States, questioning the SEC chair’s push to “make IPOs great again.” It highlights the shift toward dual‑class structures, where 78% of market cap in controlled...
Port of Rotterdam Ensured Loan for Shore Power Infrastructure
European Investment Bank approved a €90 million ($98 million) loan to the Port of Rotterdam Authority to fund shore‑power installations at three deep‑sea container terminals. The loan is complemented by a €70 million ($76 million) European Commission grant, bringing total public financing to roughly...
Turkcell Secures $1B Deal to Fund 5G Rollout
Turkcell secured a $1 billion syndicated loan from 14 banks to fund its 5G and next‑generation network rollout, ahead of Turkey’s April 1 launch. The facility, initially offered at $500 million under a Murabaha structure, was oversubscribed and doubled in size. HSBC acted...
Financial Crime Risk Assessments: The New Regulatory Standard
Regulators worldwide are elevating enterprise‑wide financial crime risk assessments from a compliance formality to the core blueprint of AML/CTF programmes. The new standard demands assessments that are accurate, complete, evidence‑based and fully integrated with governance, controls and risk appetite. Generic...
ACCA Applauds Moves to Strengthen Vital UK Small Business Audit Market
ACCA has announced its collaboration with the UK Financial Reporting Council to strengthen the audit market for small and medium‑sized enterprises. The partnership will focus on implementing the FRC’s proposed reforms covering regulation, supervision, technology and ethical guidance, including a...
DNV Supports Grenergy Chile Financing
DNV has helped Grenergy Renovables secure financing for its Central Oasis solar‑plus‑storage portfolio in Chile. The 398 MW solar PV and 1.4 GWh battery complex spans the Maule and Bíobío regions. International lenders, led by BNP Paribas with Santander and Rabobank, provided the...
How Financial Crime Enables Child Exploitation Networks
Financial crime fuels a massive global child sexual exploitation market, with an estimated half‑million Filipino children forced to produce content and 105 million abuse files identified worldwide in a single year. Demand originates mainly from high‑income Western economies, where offenders may...
Panattoni Promotes Cripps to Head of International Capital Markets
Industrial developer Panattoni has promoted Nick Cripps to head of international capital markets, expanding his remit to 18 markets across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and India. Cripps, who joined five years ago, previously built joint ventures and helped...
San Diego County Initiates Audit After Former HRC COO Charged with Embezzlement
San Diego County’s Auditor‑General has opened an independent audit of the Harm Reduction Coalition after the nonprofit’s former chief operating officer was charged with embezzlement. The review will examine grant allocations, contract compliance and internal controls, signaling heightened scrutiny of...
NHTSA Expands Probe to 3.2 M Teslas, Raising Robotaxi Timeline Risks
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has broadened its investigation of Tesla's Full Self-Driving software to 3.2 million vehicles, intensifying safety concerns that could delay the company's robotaxi rollout. Analysts warn a forced recall could erode the premium investors have...
UBS AM Expands LSE Offering with New Share Class of MSCI Europe ETF
UBS Asset Management has introduced a US‑dollar‑denominated share class of its Core MSCI Europe UCITS ETF on the London Stock Exchange, joining an existing sterling‑denominated class. The ETF tracks the MSCI Europe Net Return Index, holds roughly $1.14 bn in assets...
The Great Easing Pause: Treasury Strategy in a Wartime Economy
The Federal Reserve paused its easing cycle in March, keeping the federal funds rate at 3.50‑3.75% after three consecutive quarter‑point cuts. This “hawkish hold” arrives amid a wartime‑style energy shock that could lift headline inflation by 0.8 percentage points and...
Greatest Hits: Building Learning Cultures in Finance with Jessica McClain, CFO at American Staffing Association
In this episode of CFO Weekly, Jessica McClain, CFO of Girl Scouts Nation’s Capital, discusses the importance of lifelong learning for financial leaders, especially as AI and automation reshape accounting work. She shares how her background in public accounting and...
Market Prices Over One Std Below Long‑Term Trend
"When we map recent developments onto our Valuation vs Profitability framework, we can see that the market is now trading more than one standard deviation below its long-term trend." -Duality Research
How the Economy Would Weather Private-Credit Defaults Rising to Financial Crisis-Like Levels
Goldman Sachs’ latest research argues that even if private‑credit defaults surge to 10%—a level seen during the 2008‑09 financial crisis—the macroeconomic fallout would be modest, trimming U.S. GDP by only 20‑50 basis points. The sector, with roughly $1.7 trillion in leveraged...
SK Hynix Lines up $8B EUV Order with ASML
South Korean memory leader SK Hynix has signed a KRW11.95 trillion (~$8 billion) contract with Dutch lithography supplier ASML to acquire up to 20 extreme ultraviolet (EUV) scanners over the next two years. The agreement covers equipment, installation and modification costs, with...
‘It Feels Slimy’: My Friend Offered to Be My Adviser, but Didn’t Tell Me He’s Paid to Push Financial Products....
A CFP at a major firm, referred to as ACME, offered advisory services to a friend without disclosing his revenue‑sharing arrangements, raising conflict‑of‑interest concerns. The client discovered that about 21% of advisers receive similar incentives, which the SEC requires to...
Does Life360's Slower User Growth vs Stronger FY26 Guidance Reframe Its Ad-Driven Strategy (ASX:360)?
Life360’s first‑quarter guidance signals monthly active user growth below 20%, raising concerns about near‑term expansion. Despite this, the company issued FY26 revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance that modestly exceeds consensus, buoyed by stronger advertising contributions from its Nativo acquisition. Management...
Crypto Indexing Can't Beat Bitcoin Without New Model
🔺 The "Vanguard Moment" for Crypto? Not quite. Most investors treat crypto like equities, but the data tells a different story. If you’re trying to build a crypto index that actually beats Bitcoin, you’re fighting a structural uphill battle. Delve into...
Valuation Hits Multi-Year Low After Three-Year Rise
“Cheapest valuation in years” … in 3 years Notice the chart “history” as well. https://t.co/2WLNIb2E8B
Blending Public and Private ILS Essential to Moderate Structural Trade-Offs: Schroders Capital
Schroders Capital’s latest report argues that combining public catastrophe bonds with private insurance‑linked securities (ILS) can temper the inherent trade‑offs of each structure. Public cat bonds deliver market liquidity and transparent pricing, while private ILS provide higher illiquidity premiums and...
ECB Launches New Scrutiny of Banks' Private Credit Exposure
You can run, but you can't hide: ECB to Start Fresh Checks on Banks’ Exposure to Private Credit https://t.co/nEqJE6yYDf
FEVR Posts Solid Results Despite UK and Tax Hurdles
#FEVR solid results although UK still a struggle and Tax issue around glass 'packaging' (more useless government nonsense). Cash £91.1m (down a bit after Dividends and Buybacks). In line for coming year.
Didero Raises $30 Million Series A to Bring AI Agents to Global Supply Chains
Didero, a New York‑based software firm, closed a $30 million Series A round led by Chemistry and Headline, with participation from Microsoft’s M12 venture fund. The financing will accelerate development of its AI‑agent platform that embeds directly into ERP, email and spreadsheet...
Why Growing Companies Need Financial Leadership Before They Think They Do
Founders rarely realize they need a CFO until financial complexity outpaces simple bookkeeping. At that inflection point, a fractional CFO delivers senior‑level expertise, turning raw data into strategic decisions that safeguard cash flow and guide growth. By contextualising metrics against...
RecVue Launches Revenue Recognition on Salesforce AppExchange
RecVue announced the launch of RecVue Revenue Recognition for Salesforce, now listed on the Salesforce AppExchange. The solution automates ASC 606 and IFRS 15 revenue recognition, embedding GAAP‑aligned logic directly within the Salesforce ecosystem. It integrates with RecVue’s Agentforce Revenue Management platform...
Policy Paper: Chancellor Meeting with Gilt-Edged Market Makers: Minutes - March 2026
On 23 March 2026 the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Minister for Pensions convened a meeting with economists from the primary dealer firms that act as wholesale gilt‑edged market makers (GEMMs) at HM Treasury. The session focused on the participants’ views...
Platinum Group Metals and Chrome Mining Company Enhances Trade Finance Facilities
Tharisa, a dual‑listed mining and metals group, has secured new trade‑finance facilities totaling $60 million from HSBC and Absa. The revolving facilities, including a $15 million accordion, replace more restrictive financing and cover both pre‑ and post‑shipment needs. The funding enhances working‑capital...
#276 Why Information Security Is Now a CFO Responsibility, Howard Francioni, Lead Auditor, Akton Boundrie Group
In this episode, host Kevin Appleby talks with Howard Francioni, a lead auditor at Akton Boundrie Group, about why information security is now a core responsibility for CFOs. They discuss the real‑world impact of cyber incidents—such as the Jaguar Land...
Nitin Gadkari Launches NHAI-Backed Raajmarg Infra Investment Trust
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari launched the NHAI‑backed Raajmarg Infra Investment Trust (RIIT) on the Bombay Stock Exchange, where the inaugural public issue was oversubscribed about 14 times. The trust aims to monetize roughly 1,500 kilometres of national highways over the...
From Free LPG Cylinders to Dust-Free Roads: Key Takeaways From ₹1.03 Lakh Crore Delhi Budget 2026
Delhi's 2026‑27 budget tops ₹1.03 lakh crore (~$12.5 billion), a record allocation that prioritises health, education and green infrastructure. The health portfolio receives ₹12,645 crore (~$1.5 billion) and education ₹19,148 crore (~$2.3 billion), together accounting for over 30% of total spending. Infrastructure funding includes ₹5,921 crore for...
STOREBRAND ASA: Quarterly Newsletter Q1 2026
Storebrand ASA published its Q1 2026 quarterly newsletter, reminding investors of the financial guidance previously issued and outlining the key themes shaping its performance. The Norwegian‑based group highlighted its scale, serving roughly 61,000 corporate and 2.6 million individual customers while managing about...
Grameenphone Q1 2026 Performance Trend Update
Grameenphone, Telenor’s 55.8%-owned Bangladeshi subsidiary, warned that Q1 2026 momentum is softer than expected due to a confluence of energy‑price shocks and seasonal storms. The company projects revenue roughly 2% lower and EBITDA about 3% down versus the same quarter...
Digital India: The Next Phase>
The MVIS Digital India Index, the benchmark for VanEck’s DGIN ETF, is overhauling its methodology to mirror India’s shift from export‑focused IT services to a domestically driven digital economy. A new rule requiring over 50% of revenue from Indian customers...