The Churchill Capital deal for electric vehicle maker Lucid was long rumoured. The share price fall when it was confirmed raises questions for regulators.

Just when you thought the Spac market couldn’t get any hotter, news emerges that it is now backed by its very own rap artist.

The Australian financial services company has announced a profit guidance upgrade prompted by a win from its commodities business thanks to the crisis in Texas. It’s a bad look, but it illustrates both a complex and flawed market, and a bank with a great eye for a niche.

Investors modelling prices from data across fragmented and illiquid bond markets find that cloud computing brings speed, while AI offers precision.

Mid-market specialist DC Advisory has come a long way since its days as a unit of Close Brothers. UK chief executive Richard Madden reckons its acquisition by Daiwa and subsequent build-out of a more coherent international franchise has stood it in good stead.

Defining the boundaries of accuracy is crucial to useable financial forecasts. Experts are, nevertheless, reluctant to advocate omitting data that has previously proved of no value.

Crypto enthusiasts have hailed the electric car company’s announcement it will accept payment in bitcoin as a ringing endorsement – but not everyone is convinced.

Mobilization of angry hordes is easy: those wishing to keep order are already being left behind.

Anchor investors usually come into a Spac through a pre-merger Pipe deal. But the latest Europe-focused vehicle has brought them in from the very start.

When Robinhood stopped retail investors from buying more GameStop shares in their battle with the hedge fund short-sellers, it put itself squarely in their sights.

The wild markets of March 2020 revealed the capacity for severe dysfunction in what should be the soundest market of all – US treasury bonds. Can any market be expected to cope with such conditions without extraordinary help?

When the panic of March 2020 hit, did corporate debt fare better than Treasuries?

The bubbles in crypto and small-caps look obvious, but most markets are over-inflated and it is a fantasy that banks are immune to the risks.

Goldman’s chief executive David Solomon isn’t impressed by Spac deals from Credit Suisse and Citigroup.

The US president’s prompt action in rejoining the Paris Agreement has given encouragement to environmentalists at home and abroad. What should be next on his green hit list?

An abundance of low-cost finance and soaring stock market valuations are driving M&A towards record levels. But as M&A fever spreads, so riskier deals based on more dubious logic are appearing.

SoFi had plenty of options, so its choice of a Spac validates that structure for listing and raising capital. Can it now challenge the biggest US banks?

Gary Gensler could start his tenure running the Securities and Exchange Commission with a dramatic flourish by taking steps to burst the bubble in special purpose acquisition companies.

More Asian entrepreneurs are going to New York to raise money for Spac listings. Should Singapore’s SGX seek to intercept these listings?

The latest move by an asset class that just can’t keep out of the news is less surprising than it might appear.

In creating a single wealth management platform, called Citi Global Wealth, the US bank is recognizing its shortcomings and planning for the future.

It’s a new year, but Spacs are still facing the same old debates – with a few new twists.

A ban by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on banks denying services to whole sectors could hit their corporate responsibility efforts

In publicly breaking with Trump, banks and corporates are set to make scrutiny of their choices more intense, not less. This is a good thing.

The broker-dealer posted stellar investment banking and markets numbers for 2020 – and reckons this is just the start.

Agreement on the long-awaited US coronavirus relief bill has created further downward pressure on the dollar at the start of a year in which analysts expect economic headwinds to devalue the greenback.

A strong year means chief executive Bruce Van Saun is in the enviable position of having options.

As government debt burdens keep rising to fight the virus, so do the chances of sudden sell-offs that could suck all markets into a vicious downward cycle.

The investment bank profited in markets and capital raising, as acquisitions set it up for the future

A drastic management overhaul will please some, but chief executive Charles Scharf still has much to do – especially after Covid-19.