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L&G funds boss predicts infrastructure will dominate private assets

Eric Adler said infrastructure is a ‘huge long-term story’ as the £1.1tn UK manager continues its push into private markets

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Revolut hires SocGen board member as western Europe CEO

London-based fintech taps Béatrice Cossa-Dumurgier for newly created role

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Raymond James opens Paris office with Portais hire

The mid-market investment bank has hired a senior dealmaker to start a new operation in the French capital

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Why ‘business as usual’ is no longer an option for asset managers

Some of the world’s biggest fund groups are reinventing themselves as technology and a changing investor base has forced a shift in mindset

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LSE capital markets unit lost 52 staff amid listings drought

The UK’s IPO market has yet to meaningfully recover after a torrid few years

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BlackRock veteran James Charrington to retire

Former head of Emea is retiring after more than 30 years with the US asset management giant

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Advent agrees £3.8bn deal for FTSE 250 group Spectris as KKR mulls fresh bid

The scientific instruments maker is the latest in a flurry of deals inked by Advent in the industrial and engineering sectors

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Nomura hands wholesale boss Willcox $15m pay after profit surges

British banker’s pay up 25% to almost double CEO’s

Alantra is ready to build again after investment bank overhaul

After rapid international expansion, the mid-market focused firm restructured its business last year. Its investment bank CEO says it can now rebuild again

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

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

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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