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At the country’s biggest fintech conference, the U.S. election is the elephant in the room

CFPB’s Chopra gets rockstar welcome at Money20/20 just days after finalizing open banking rule

Fortune

Blackstone In Advanced Discussions To Buy Shopping Center Owner Retail Opportunity: Report

This year has seen a slowdown in real estate deal-making, with U.S. mergers and acquisitions declining by 39% to $27.1 billion, according to data from Dealogic. Elevated interest rates have raised borrowing costs, impacting the market.

International Business Times

Biden Administration Launches Investigation Into Airline Competition

Biden administration investigates airline competition, mergers, and fees in the U.S. air travel industry.

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What happens when black holes merge?

Black hole mergers are beautiful — and some of the most violent events in the cosmos. Here's how the process unfolds.

Space

Fintech market stirs as Celero seeks a buyer while Finexio looks for minority investor

Mergers remain slow ahead of U.S. presidential election

Fortune

New merger laws to shelve 'damaging' supermarket deals

The competition watchdog will have to be notified of every supermarket merger to prevent major players from gaining an unfair advantage.

AAP

Private equity’s role in US healthcare remains unchecked after California veto

Bill rejected by Newsom would have let attorney general deny mergers after recent scandal involving Stewart Health

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ECB Chief Backs Bank Mergers Amid UniCredit, Commerzbank Talk

ECB chief Christine Lagarde said Monday that cross-border banking mergers in Europe were "desirable" to boost their competitiveness, despite mounting German opposition to a potential tie-up between Commerzbank and Italy's UniCredit.

International Business Times

Luminate Capital scores first acquisition for Fund IV, buying AbsenceSoft

Haynes’s Luminate Capital is more than halfway to $1.5 bln Fund IV target

Fortune

Employers expect health care benefit costs to keep rising—and they're going to have to make some tough choices

Rising prescription prices, hospital mergers, and nurse shortages are contributing to the climb.

Fortune

The Benefits of Outsourcing Data Room Services from a Professional Provider

Conviction, divorces, multimillion-dollar damages, hiding children in bathtubs because of an upcoming ballistic missile. These are not episodes from Hollywood movies but real stories highlighting the importance of choosing reliable software for business leaders and governors.When dealing with sensitive transactions like mergers and acquisitions, it's crucial to consider a virtual…

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Dealmakers Ponder What's Next After Tough Biden Antitrust Years

President Joe Biden's skeptical approach to corporate mergers has been a hallmark of his administration's business policy -- a stance generally expected to ease if Donald Trump returns to the White House.

International Business Times

Supermassive black holes have masses of more than a million suns – but their growth has slowed as the universe aged

Space

The oil industry is booming. This West Texas small business worries it’s been left behind.

Before the pandemic, Ben Bilbrey worked with some of the largest oil companies. Now he’s waiting for the phone to ring.

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The Conversation

South Africa’s competition law has special conditions for company mergers: do they benefit society or hinder business?

Competition is a good thing. This is the common thread through global competition law, which aims to prevent monopolies – when one firm dominates a sector.

The Guardian - UK

Proper funding, not mergers, will solve universities crisis

Letter: Prof Roger Brown responds to suggestions that partnerships and mergers could benefit cash-strapped universities

AAP

Scalpel taken to hospital 'back office bureaucracy'

A hospital overhaul will not force mergers but "back office bureaucracy" will be targeted by a new agency after a review found the system unfit for purpose.

The Guardian - UK

Food giants are strangling Britain’s farmers and consumers. What’s the solution? Break them up

The UK has a huge problem with monopolies – yet taking conglomerates apart is not as hard as you might think, says Nicholas Shaxson, co-founder of the Balanced Economy Project

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Salon

How to improve our global food system

Here's why "it's damaging our health, our communities and the planet"

The Conversation

The global food system is owned by an ever smaller number of companies – it’s damaging our health, our communities and the planet

Across the world, over 800 million people spend their days hungry. More than 2 billion have limited access to food. Yet today’s global food system produces enough to feed every person on the planet.

Salon

Supermassive black holes slowing growth

Black holes grew much faster billions of years ago, when the universe was younger

Fortune

Venture firms need to emulate private equity, says Upfront Ventures partner Mark Suster

With IPOs and mergers still on hold, VCs may look to secondaries as their exit, Suster predicted at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference.

The Conversation

Supermassive black holes have masses of more than a million suns – but their growth has slowed as the universe has aged

Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The most gigantic ones, known as “supermassive” black holes, can weigh millions to billions times the mass of the Sun.

Space

Quasars are 'cosmic signposts' pointing to rare supermassive black hole pairs

New research suggests that galaxies with quasars at their active hearts are seven times more likely to harbor elusive supermassive black hole binary paintings than other galaxies.

Tom’s Hardware

China's new laws encourage chipmakers to merge instead of going public — policy shift comes after tens of thousands of Chinese semiconductor firms went out of business

Chinese semiconductor companies shift focus from IPOs to mergers and acquisitions as Chinese authorities are looking forward to building strong companies rather than a huge number of weak companies.

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