A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

Mergers & acquisition activity recovered and then some in 2025, as the number of deals valued at $10B or more hit a new high. For the year, so far, there were a record 68 deals each valued at over ...

Megadeals returned in full force in 2025. Wall Street is already bracing for another wave in 2026. There were a record 68 transactions valued at $10 billion or more announced globally this year, ...

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Randy Hultgren, chief executive officer of the Illinois Bankers Association, is stepping down as head of the lobbying group at the end of the 2026 spring legislative session. “The IBA is in strong ...

Leveraged finance bankers have long anticipated the return of M&A. Now they’re betting that next year they might finally be right. Banks have underwritten around $65 billion of debt tied to leveraged ...

The bankers to Warren Buffett and some of the nation's richest families spoke to our Robert Frank in an exclusive interview. CNBC's Robert Frank joins 'Squawk Box' with the highlights. ‘I’m Going to ...

Comcast has hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, Deadline has confirmed, to explore a bid for Warner Bros studios and streaming as the sale process around WBD heats up. Separately, the Philadelphia ...

Comcast is in the process of splitting off most of NBCUniversal’s cable networks into a new company, Versant, a transaction expected to be completed by the end of 2025. The thinking is that Comcast ...

The U.S. Treasury has imposed fresh sanctions on a group of North Korean bankers and institutions accused of laundering millions in cryptocurrency tied to cyberattacks and illicit IT work schemes that ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Goldman Sachs has lost more than a dozen senior investment bankers this year, a higher number than normal, after internal shake-ups and a sluggish start to 2025 drove them to seek ...

What do Jerome Powell and Henry Ford have in common? A recognition that labor has always been a transient force — shaped by machines, markets and management. Wall Street, for all its illusions of ...