Paying for the Caesars empire
About 10 years ago, two legendary private equity firms, Apollo Global Management and TPG, teamed up to carry out a leveraged buyout of one of the biggest and most iconic gaming companies, then known a...
24 Jul 201926min
Renault, Nissan and Fiat Chrysler's quest for a deal
When Fiat Chrysler Automobiles withdrew its proposal for a €33bn merger with France’s Renault it reversed plans to create what could have been the world's third-largest carmaker. The FT's David Keohan...
25 Jun 201923min
Warren Buffett's cash dilemma
Over the past 54 years, shares in Berkshire Hathaway have outpaced the broader market. But now the conglomerate is holding onto more than $100bn in cash that it would rather be investing. The FT's Eri...
4 Jun 201927min
The unicorn IPO
What it means for a generation of tech companies with huge valuations to be making the shift to the public markets, and why some are doing it by unconventional means. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...
12 Mar 201918min
Encore: how €200bn of ‘dirty money’ flowed through a Danish bank
How did Denmark’s Danske Bank find itself at the centre of one of the largest money-laundering scandals the world has ever seen? The FT’s Richard Milne explains. This episode was originally published ...
5 Mar 201917min
Encore: Huawei and the fight for 5G
The arrest of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer, followed months of mounting scrutiny of the world's biggest telecoms equipment maker. The FT's Nic Fildes explains how Huawei grew to be s...
26 Feb 201920min
The long courtship between Sprint and T-Mobile
Sprint and T-Mobile have a long on-again, off-again history. Together the companies serve a combined total of about 30 per cent of the US mobile market. Now, after a third attempt at merging, the comp...
19 Feb 201923min
Has the US bank consolidation wave begun?
Two mid-sized American banks are joining forces in a $66bn merger - BB&T and Suntrust. It is the biggest US bank deal since the financial crisis, and analysts say the deal will up the ante on rival ba...
12 Feb 201922min
