TA Portfolio Company Gong cha to Be Acquired by Bain Capital August 5, 2026 TA Associates (“TA”), a leading global private equity firm, today announced that Bain Capital Private Equity, LP. (“Bain Capital”) has entered into an agreement to acquire Gong cha, one of the world’s fastest-growing global tea brands. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260805769603/en/ Since TA’s investment in 2019, Gong cha has [...]
TikTok loses court battle over £12.7m child privacy fine August 5, 2026 TikTok has lost an appeal against a £12.7m fine from the UK’s data protection regulator for illegally processing the data of over 1.4m children under the age of 13. The watchdog hit TikTok with the penalty in April 2023 for breaching the UK’s data protection law, the GDPR, for unlawfully processing the data of children [...]
Interactive Brokers Adds Brazilian Futures through Brazil’s B3 Exchange August 5, 2026 Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global broker, today announced that eligible clients outside of Brazil can now trade Brazilian futures in addition to equities through the B3 exchange. Interactive Brokers was the first broker to provide international investors with streamlined, low-cost access to B3. Offering Brazilian futures and equities alongside products across more than [...]
Exclusive: Sydney Opera House and Gherkin designer Arup loses finance chief August 5, 2026 The design company behind the Sydney Opera House and Gherkin has been left without a finance chief after the former executive in the role quietly left the business, City AM has learned. Robert Boardman, who spent nearly seven years as chief financial officer at the blue-chip engineering, design, and professional services consultancy, resigned as a [...]
Leeds NHS Innovation to Accelerate Global Adoption of AI-enabled Pathology for Cancer Diagnostics Through Epredia Partnership August 5, 2026 A pioneering pathology technology developed by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is set for international deployment after securing a commercial agreement with Epredia, a global leader in precision cancer diagnostics solutions. NHS is the UK’s National Health Service. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260805546533/en/ The technology, known as TANGO, is [...]
Top AmLaw Firm Hogan Lovells Cadwalader Unifies Global Financial Operations with Elite’s 3E in Six Months August 5, 2026 Six-month go-live highlights Elite’s ability to deliver complex law firm operations and integrations at speed
Want to be as rich as retirees? Buy shares in them August 5, 2026 Firms selling to British retirees have rocketed in value this year – Simon Hunt asks why. The Nasdaq 100 is up around 14 per cent since the start of the year, at the time of writing, while the FTSE 350 is up 9 per cent. But one stock portfolio is doing better than both. I [...]
Luis Figo: ‘Deceitful and cravenly self-interested’ Infantino must quit Fifa now August 5, 2026 Fifa president Gianni Infantino has come under fire from another high-profile figure after Portugal great Luis Figo joined calls for him to quit without further delay. Infantino is clinging to his job despite senior Fifa figures condemning his plan to sell stakes in a new commercial vehicle that would manage the World Cup to private [...]
Compass Pathways Announces Second Quarter and First Half 2026 Financial Results and Business Highlights August 5, 2026 Data from two positive Phase 3 trials demonstrated rapid onset of effect and durable benefit through at least 6 months, further validating COMP360’s potential to establish a new standard of care in TRD COMP360 has a highly differentiated clinical profile and is expected to be a blockbuster opportunity, if approved Rolling NDA submission and initial review underway and final submission expected to be completed in Q4 Commercial launch expected in first half of 2027 COMP360 expected to fit seamlessly into current treatment infrastructure Late-stage PTSD trial underway Strong cash position of $433 million at the end of second quarter, providing cash well beyond launch and into 2028 Compass management will host a conference call on August 5 at 8:00 am ET
Britain needs a new Richard Branson August 5, 2026 Richard Branson continues to be the best champion the UK has as a place to do business despite founding his first business decades ago. Branson is a global success, but he should have a successor by now, says Philip Salter A few months after England lifted the 1966 World Cup, Sir Richard Branson started working [...]