Financial Highlights from the Recent Week You Should Know About:
- FINTECH: Elon’s X to offer payments & investing
Elon Musk’s mission to turn X (aka Twitter) into a Super App is moving towards that goal.
Current X CEO, Linda Yaccarino, shared in an interview that the app will “soon” allow users to trade & invest as well as making payments via the X app.
Sure, we trust Musk to send rockets into space, but would you trust his app with all your money? - CAREER MOVES: HSBC names new Head of Global M&A
HSBC has named Christopher Chua its new Head of Global M&A, following the departure of the previous head to JPMorgan.
Chua has been promoted from Asia Head of M&A and will be based in Hong Kong. - AI in SUPPLY CHAIN: AI is helping companies model tariff shocks
Kinaxis, a supply chain platform, recently launched an AI-powered tool that allows companies to model scenarios due to tariffs and help strategically plan in the current trade war environment. - MARKETS: Global IPO Slump in 2025
2025 hasn’t been a good year to go public.
So far, the global IPO market has been at its lowest in nine years, mainly due to a global trade war and market volatility.
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