Finance & Investment

Miami and Madrid – September 07, 2026 -- Securitize Corp. (NYSE: SECZ) and Socios.com have formed a strategic partnership to develop regulated tokenized equity offerings for minority interests in professional sports teams, targeting a global franchise market estimated at $500 billion in aggregate value.

Companies to launch Socios Equity Token brand for regulated sports equity

Under the deal, the two firms plan to work with sports teams, existing owners and institutional investors to structure and tokenize minority equity stakes under the Socios Equity Token brand, subject to securities laws, league requirements, club approvals and jurisdictional restrictions. Socios.com will manage sports-industry relationships and the fan-facing engagement layer, while Securitize will handle regulated securities issuance, investor onboarding, ownership-record administration, transfer controls and ongoing servicing through its regulated affiliates.

Bled, Slovenia – September 07, 2026 -- A new data-driven selection model has identified 100 high-growth Slovenian companies that doubled their combined revenue to 2.1 billion euros, marking the first full rollout of a methodology designed to close Europe's competitiveness gap with the United States and China.

Future 100 Slovenia becomes the pilot for a pan-European scale-up strategy

The Future 100 Slovenia initiative, unveiled at the Future 500 Forum in Bled, is the first national application of the Future 500 Initiative's methodology, which its backers intend to extend across Europe. The forum ran alongside the Bled Strategic Forum under the theme 'Powering Europe's Scale-Up Engine: From Selection to Acceleration.'

Vancouver – September 7, 2026 -- Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. will host an Investor Day webcast on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, starting at 9:00am Eastern Time, giving shareholders direct access to executive strategy and asset-level technical detail.

Wheaton's CEO and executive team will lead the session alongside partner technical presentations

Haytham Hodaly, President and Chief Executive Officer, will speak alongside the Wheaton Executive team. Representatives from Wheaton's mining partners will deliver technical presentations on certain streaming assets, offering investors operational detail beyond corporate commentary.

Bled – September 07, 2026 -- A new data-driven selection model has identified 100 high-growth Slovenian companies whose combined revenue doubled to €2.1 billion, marking the first full deployment of the Future 500 initiative designed to close the competitiveness gap between Europe, the United States and China.

Future 100 Slovenia index debuts as EU readies €80 billion in growth-company funding

The index was unveiled at the Future 500 forum in Bled, timed to test whether Europe can identify its most promising scale-ups early enough to connect them with the capital and networks needed for global competitiveness. The launch coincides with the European Investment Bank's ICTE 2.0 initiative, which is mobilizing up to €80 billion in investment for young growth companies across the bloc.

New York – September 07, 2026 -- The Women's Capital Summit will convene investors, league executives and founders to examine capital flows into women's sports and women-led businesses, positioning the sector as an increasingly sophisticated investment market rather than an emerging niche.

Sophia Bush joins summit to advocate for capital deployment into women's sports

Actor and investor Sophia Bush will speak at the Summit on the case for backing women's sports and women entrepreneurs, drawing on her track record of investing in women-focused businesses and initiatives.

Taipei – September 04, 2026 -- Cherubic Ventures has closed its sixth fund at $68.88 million, pushing total assets under management across its six funds past $500 million.

Fund VI's Portfolio Companies Have Already Raised Over $500 Million in Follow-On Capital

Despite being early-stage, Fund VI's backed startups have collectively secured more than $500 million in subsequent funding rounds. The fund continues the firm's focus on AI-native companies spanning infrastructure, developer tools, enterprise software, healthcare, physical AI and robotics.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - May 15, 2026 - insureNXT is preparing for its largest edition to date, with more than 230 exhibitors and partners confirmed for the 2026 event in Cologne. The international insurance innovation conference and trade fair is positioning itself as a growing operational and strategic meeting point for insurers, InsurTechs, technology providers, and cross-sector partners focused on transformation initiatives. Organizers also confirmed the finalists for the insureNXT Innovators Award 2026, which this year is centered entirely on artificial intelligence applications for the insurance sector. The combination of expanded exhibitor participation and AI-focused programming highlights increasing industry attention on automation, operational efficiency, and new customer service models.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 15, 2025 - HoldCo Asset Management says Comerica shareholders should vote against the proposed merger with Fifth Third at a special meeting scheduled for January 6, 2026, arguing the transaction undervalues Comerica and that rejecting the deal could improve shareholder outcomes with limited downside.

Activist investor challenges deal process and governance safeguards
HoldCo Asset Management, a Florida-based investment firm managing approximately $2.6 billion in regulatory assets under management, said it holds beneficial ownership of approximately 1.6% of Comerica's outstanding common stock and released a presentation titled "Why We Recommend Voting AGAINST The Proposed Merger and Our Litigation Update." The firm's case centers on how the transaction was negotiated and whether the board's process delivered maximum value for shareholders.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 15, 2025 - Shanghai is sharpening its push to become a leading center for merger-and-acquisition activity, as the 2025 Mergers and Acquisitions Finance Conference spotlighted stronger regional deal momentum and unveiled a new market index intended to track China's evolving M&A environment.

Policy momentum behind listed-company restructuring
The conference took place as Shanghai marks one year since releasing a three-year action plan aimed at supporting M&A among listed firms. In practical terms, the message to corporate leaders and capital providers is clear: policy alignment and financial-market infrastructure are being positioned to support more transactions that improve efficiency, accelerate industrial upgrading, and strengthen competitiveness in key sectors.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 10, 2025 - Hanwha Finance is sharpening its Middle East growth agenda as Chief Global Officer Dong-Won Kim used his opening address at Abu Dhabi Finance Week's Global Markets Summit to position South Korea-UAE financial collaboration as a long-term strategic pillar for both economies and a testbed for next-generation digital capital markets.

Strengthening a Korea-UAE "100-Year Partnership" Through Finance

Speaking in Abu Dhabi, Kim framed financial services as the connective tissue that will turn high-level Korea-UAE diplomacy into investable projects and new cross-border capital flows. He noted that "since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1980, South Korea and the UAE have continuously expanded the scope of cooperation", and stressed that Hanwha Finance intends to help carry forward a "100-year partnership" between the two nations.