CNBC’s Martin Soong hosts a roundtable in Singapore with stock exchange leaders from around the world to discuss how U.S. exceptionalism is reshaping global capital flows.
The future of exchanges: Global capital flows in the age of Trump, tariffs and trade wars
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Fintech Checkout.com’s valuation falls to $12 billion
Guillaume Pousaz, CEO and founder of payment platform Checkout.com, speaking at the annual Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2022. Horacio Villalobos | Getty Images LONDON — Fintech unicorn Checkout.com is giving staff a way of cashing in their shares: buying them out. The London-headquartered payments platform said Friday that it plans to […]
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Barclays CEO double downs on U.K. despite bank tax risk
Barclays chief C.S. Venkatakrishnan doubled down on doing business in the United Kingdom even as the British bank faces the growing threat of higher taxes in the country. The executive’s optimism comes as analysts and investors widely expect the U.K. government to target the U.K. banking sector for tax increases in the upcoming Autumn Budget […]
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Fever to fatigue? Pop Mart is actually happy that Labubu resale prices are dropping
This summer, the monster toy Labubu charmed the world with its cute and chaotic energy, commanding resale markups that would make day traders or Rolex flippers blush. One secret blind box edition was selling for over 2,000% above retail prices, according to Nomura. Last month, robbers in California staged a $30,000 heist. Now, there are […]
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