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TOP STORY: UK digital bank Monzo is stepping up discussions with private equity firms over a potential sale of a significant minority stake after Brazilian fintech Nubank abandoned talks over a potential acquisition that could have valued the company at as much as £10bn, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION: As demand grows for a reliable base load of zero carbon electricity, nuclear has come back into the picture. After years of stagnation, investors and governments are now looking to expand existing capacity, and reopen old plants.
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Sycamore Partners is in advanced discussions to sell UK health and beauty retailer Boots to the Canadian branch of the billionaire Weston family in a transaction that could value the business at about $9bn, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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With companies staying private for longer, retail investors have even more to gain from early exposure. Tokenisation could help broaden private markets access, offering greater flexibility than what is currently on offer.
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September 2026 | As we progress to late in the cycle, private credit has developed into a substantial force in the global economy, highly stratified, increasingly sophisticated and vastly dispersed. A maturing market brings with it conversations around opportunism, innovation, risk management, operational agility and standardisation – all themes that will be explored in this research.
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Bain Capital is among the private equity firms bidding for Edged, the US data centre developer and operator owned by Koch, in a transaction that could value the business at more than $15bn, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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Bridgepoint and Astorg are considering a potential sale of Irish financial software provider Fenergo at a valuation of more than £2bn, according to a report by Reuters citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
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In Alternative Views, Private Equity Wire® goes behind closed doors with those in the know to get the latest on private markets. In this episode we discuss GP Verticals™ with Alex Barr and James Witter, co-founders of Sarasin Bread Street, the private markets arm of Sarasin & Partners.
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Apax is in advanced discussions to acquire Warburg Pincus’ interest in Dutch telecoms operator Odido, potentially taking sole private equity ownership of the business at a valuation of about €6.5bn, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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Blackstone has launched its first multi-asset private markets fund aimed at individual investors outside the US, expanding the alternative asset manager’s efforts to bring private-market strategies to the global wealth market, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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