Blackstone’s private credit fund hands investors record redemptions Investing The world’s largest alternative asset manager is allowing investors to pull a record amount of cash from its flagship private credit fund as anxiety continues to ripple through the trillion-dollar industry. Blackstone will permit investors to redeem 7.9 per cent of shares from the fund – the equivalent to a whopping $3.8bn. The financial giant [...]
Ex Goldman chief: I smell another financial crisis Banking Goldman Sachs’ top boss throughout the 2008 financial crisis has sounded the alarm that the global economy was drawing closer to another crash. Billionaire investment banker Lloyd Blankfein, who served at the helm of Goldman from 2006 until 2018, said: “I don’t feel the storm, but the horses are starting to whinny in the corral.” [...]
Standard Chartered shares fall as finance boss exits for Apollo Banking The finance boss of Standard Chartered has made a swift exit from the bank as he takes up a top job at asset manager Apollo. Diego De Giorgi, who joined the bank in September 2023 before becoming chief financial officer in January 2024, stepped down to lead Apollo’s European, Middle East and Africas region. The [...]
Goldman Sachs leads Wall St boom amid trading frenzy and deal-making January 16, 2026 Wall Street giants were riding high following this week’s round of earnings updates after months market volatility and deal-making helped take trading revenue to record highs. Goldman Sachs led the surge pocketing $4.3bn in equities trading revenue in the last three months of the year – a record for Wall Street banks. Meanwhile, the banks [...]
Britain is ‘too pessimistic’ to succeed December 18, 2025 Britain is in the grips of an overly pessimistic mindset that is preventing it from taking the risks and making the reforms needed to reawaken its economy, the former chair of Deutsche Bank has said. Dr Paul Achleitner said that while structural issues were largely behind the paucity of growth across Europe and the UK, [...]
Exclusive: Goldman Sachs, Oaktree and Carlyle to take part in private credit stress test December 3, 2025 Goldman Sachs, Oaktree and Carlyle will take part in the Bank of England’s inaugural stress test of the burgeoning private credit sector this week, City AM can reveal. Britain’s central bank is poised to carry out its first ever “system-wide exploratory scenario exercise” of so-called shadow banks in the coming weeks, in a bid to [...]
Wall Street banks toast to $130bn revenue in deal making boom October 15, 2025 Wall Street banks raked in bumper profits, comfortably breezing past analyst expectations in the third quarter, driven by the continued strength of trading desks and a sharp revival in deal making. JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup brushed past estimates on Tuesday, with Jamie Dimon’s banking juggernaut collecting $14.4bn (£10.8bn) in profit – a 12 [...]
Goldman Sachs chief warns Rachel Reeves against bank tax October 14, 2025 The boss of Goldman Sachs has warned Chancellor Rachel Reeves that an increase to the financial burden slapped on the banking sector would dent economic growth ambitions. In a private meeting with the Chancellor, David Solomon said hitting the industry with higher taxes would dampen wider prospects for the country’s growth. The remarks come ahead [...]
Petershill Partners blames ‘enduring valuation discount’ as it quits London Stock Exchange September 25, 2025 Investment firm Petershill Partners has become the latest business to unveil plans to quit the London Stock Exchange after it complained of suffering from an “enduring valuation discount.” The FTSE 250 business, which was founded by Goldman Sachs in 2007, said its lacklustre share price “did not appropriately reflect the quality and underlying value” of [...]
Wall Street banking giants ride tariff rebound to booming revenue July 16, 2025 Wall Street’s banking titans have rounded off second-quarter earnings seasons largely breezing past analyst expectations as revenues boomed on the back of market volatility. The lenders continued a trend from the first-quarter with strong trading and investment banking revenues driving a robust performance. JP Morgan pocketed $45.7bn in revenue, outperforming its $44bn estimate. This came [...]