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Alantra is ready to build again after investment bank overhaul
After rapid international expansion, the mid-market focused firm restructured its business in December. Its investment bank CEO says it can now rebuild again
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Meet three of Europe’s top lawyers
FN’s Fifty Most Influential Lawyers list returns next week. Here are three of this year’s debutants
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BlackRock’s Cohen: We are as strong as our rivals on private markets
Chief product officer Stephen Cohen says the world’s largest asset manager is ready to go toe-to-toe with alternatives giants
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BlackRock weighs bigger push into crypto ETFs
Stephen Cohen, BlackRock’s chief product officer, says it will ‘continue to look at areas within the crypto world where exposures within an ETF make sense’
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HSBC eyes AI bots to replace back office jobs
The UK lender is interested in using AI agents created by a tech startup
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Kraken’s Arjun Sethi: Remote work will help us find the best talent
The co-CEO of Kraken discusses expansion plans, the hunt for acquisitions and why institutional adoption of digital assets is on the rise
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‘I’m riddled with anxiety about it’: Working dads face tough choices about paternity leave
City firms are improving benefits for fathers, but some say change isn’t coming fast enough
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The former H&F partner who swapped private equity for poker
Analysing data, reading body language and using logic: a newly-crowned poker player is bringing his years of private equity know-how to the Las Vegas tables
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Accenture backs AI boom with new management structure
Consultancy is trying to position itself for further tech growth
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Fiera Capital managing partner Catherine O’Reilly exits
The former Goldman Sachs and TCI Fund Management employee has also stepped down from her board role at UK trade body the Investment Association
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CVC pivots from growth to mid-market in strategy reset
The European buyout giant has quietly launched a new product dubbed ‘Catalyst’ as part of a broader plan to grow its assets under management
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Trading Places: JPMorgan’s private banking shake-up, Citi overhauls DCM team
Find out who is on the move in the City and beyond this week
The government fired the CMA’s chair. Then it deleted the messages
WhatsApp records were set to disappear, the Department for Business and Trade confirms
Meet the female banker taking over JPMorgan’s UK private bank
Catch up on the top news in wealth management this week
Schroders CEO’s report card, and where L&G’s funds business goes next
Catch up on all this week’s asset management news
Who is JPMorgan’s new UK private banking boss?
Maricé Brown is ‘JPMorgan through and through’ but is an unfamiliar name in the City
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Ex-Bank of America trader joins Sumo as head of systematic fixed income trading
Jugakalpa Das’ six-member pod will start trading for Sumo in July
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City minister vows ‘targeted support’ for AIM tax breaks
The London Stock Exchange has called for clarity around the future of tax incentives
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Ares launches first ever ELTIF as wealth push ramps up
A semi-liquid version of the private credit giant’s $3bn European Strategic Income fund will be aimed at wider pool of affluent investors
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Morgan Stanley taps former BlackRock executive for UK board role
Anna Khazen joins the Wall Street bank’s international arm
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