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By August 2025, top executives of auto lender Tricolor knew they were in trouble: The company had pledged approximately $2.2 billion of collateral to lenders and investors, but only had approximately $1.4 billion of real collateral, Manhattan federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.Founder Daniel Chu and the company’s Chief Operating Officer…
In private equity, consolidation is now the name of the game. After a burst of new fund launches — enough for one KKR executive to joke last month that the US now has more private equity funds than McDonald’s — more funding than ever is flowing into the biggest names.…
OpenAI launched a new public salvo against The New York Times on Wednesday, accusing it of trying to invade its users’ privacy by demanding 20 million ChatGPT logs.What the company didn’t mention is that it already lost that battle in court.On Wednesday, OpenAI published a statement authored by its chief…
When I was younger, I experienced nearly every type of schooling: homeschool, private, and public. By the time I reached middle school and convinced my parents to send me back to the public school system, I spent a lot of my time resenting my parents’ decisions because I felt like…
The tension between big banks and private credit giants is flaring up again. The latest tussle started as the chair of UBS warned about risks in the US insurance industry due to private financing.Colm Kelleher warned that the “lack of effective regulation” in the insurance industry is causing a “looming…
When you open a new business, you don’t just sit back and hope that people will show up.You advertise. You post on social media, tell your friends and neighbors, and do all that you can to promote your product to gain and retain customers.There’s no reason the public school system…
Anish Pathipati spent years honing his skills as a private equity investor, and now, he’s decided to “hang out a shingle,” launching his own fund, Simha Partners.The last time we spoke to Pathipati for our 2018 Wall Street Rising Stars series, he was a director at North Island, a private…
The world’s top 1% rarely fly commercial. Instead, they jet around the globe in private luxury — but even in the skies, privacy is getting harder to come by.The ultrawealthy are now navigating the era of jet tracking.The trend involves tracking the real-time locations of celebrity private jets, prompting more…
