New York City, Feb. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BCKD Capital (“BCKD” / “The Firm”), a newly relaunched global hybrid financial firm based in New York City and Tokyo, is announcing its listing plans for both the financial firm and its newly formed multinational holding firm “SVCV”. The announcement comes ahead of its first fund, “The Next Gen Leaders,” which will raise capital to acquire emerging ...
New York City, Feb. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BCKD Capital (“BCKD” / “The Firm”), a newly relaunched global hybrid financial firm based in New York City and Tokyo, is announcing its listing plans for both the financial firm and its newly formed multinational holding firm “SVCV”. The announcement comes ahead of its first fund, “The Next Gen Leaders,” which will raise capital to acquire emerging brands for its portfolios. The firm has expressed its intent to execute a partial listing of the financial firm on the Tokyo Pro Market and a partial listing of “SVCV” on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange by the end of 2027. “The core value of both firms is the people behind and around it; thus, we find it important to include investors from all around the world on this journey with us on building this new world for the founders and leaders of tomorrow,” said a partner at BCKD. This dual-structure relaunch marks a significant expansion beyond the Firm's original private equity focus, positioning it for accelerated growth, sector diversification, and a long-term mission to shape global consumer and technology landscapes. A New Architecture: BCKD Capital and SVCV BCKD Capital will operate as the investment manager and financial engine. It will oversee all investment activities, manage funds, and provide strategic capital to the group's holdings. SVCV will function as the operational holding company—"The Next-Generation’s Group." It will directly house and manage acquired companies and internally developed flagship brands, fostering collaboration across a vertically integrated ecosystem. The Firm also expects to announce shortly its first hires for its office branch, along with the launch of its debut fund. BCKD’s management team and board of executives will be composed of business and financial professionals with more than twenty years of experience at some of the world’s largest institutions, including JPMorgan, BlackRock, UBS, and others. A total of approximately fifty hires is ...
India is considering allowing foreigners to own as much as 49% stake in its state-run banks as policymakers look to bolster capital at these lenders to fund growth, without entirely giving up control. The government is discussing raising the foreign direct investment cap to 49% from 20%, federal banking secretary M Nagaraju told reporters on Monday. Foreign ownership in State Bank of India - the c...
India is considering allowing foreigners to own as much as 49% stake in its state-run banks as policymakers look to bolster capital at these lenders to fund growth, without entirely giving up control. The government is discussing raising the foreign direct investment cap to 49% from 20%, federal banking secretary M Nagaraju told reporters on Monday. Foreign ownership in State Bank of India - the country’s largest lender - and 11 other state-owned banks is capped at 20%, a legacy restriction rooted in the government’s desire to retain strategic control of the financial system. The limit is far lower than the 74% foreign investment allowed in private-sector banks and 100% foreign direct investment in local insurance companies. The ceiling applies to all overseas holdings combined, including foreign institutional investors, pension funds and other non-resident shareholders. While portfolio investors can buy SBI shares freely within the cap, any breach would require regulatory intervention, effectively constraining demand from global funds even as India’s equities gain weight in international benchmarks.
Markets were also worried about the independence of the US Federal Reserve but precious metals plummeted on Friday after President Donald Trump named finance industry figure Kevin Warsh as his choice to be its next boss.
Markets were also worried about the independence of the US Federal Reserve but precious metals plummeted on Friday after President Donald Trump named finance industry figure Kevin Warsh as his choice to be its next boss.
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Transfer deadline day has become an event for fans and something of a media circus in recent years, but it has always been an important day for managers, even before the current system of having transfer windows was introduced in 2002. Get it right - and get the player or players you want in at the 11th hour - and you can turn your season around. On the other hand, if you don't get important deals...
Transfer deadline day has become an event for fans and something of a media circus in recent years, but it has always been an important day for managers, even before the current system of having transfer windows was introduced in 2002. Get it right - and get the player or players you want in at the 11th hour - and you can turn your season around. On the other hand, if you don't get important deals done or lose someone without replacing them, it can take the wind out of your sails and deflate a team involved in a promotion bid or survival battle. I never saw making late signings as a risk, because I always thought the players I was bringing in would make the team better. Looking back at the transfer deadline day deals I was involved in was really interesting. Yes, I had a few stinkers, but also some really good ones. A theme emerged which showed that if you can do good business, it can really change the fortunes of the team. At Crystal Palace on the final day of the January window in 2014, for example, the permanent additions of Scott Dann, Wayne Hennessey, Joe Ledley and also Tom Ince on loan, sparked an amazing turnaround. We were in a relegation battle and in serious trouble near the bottom of the Premier League when they arrived but we ended up 11th, 12 points clear of the bottom three, after securing our survival with three games to go. All four new players were great positives who played a huge part in our improvement. I am not saying they upgraded the quality of our players but they gave us a better balance as a team, which I felt we lacked before they came in. Gaining that balance enabled us to stay in the Premier League.
TikTok, which is under new ownership in the U.S., said Sunday that it has restored service after outages last week that marred user experiences. The social network has over 220 million users in the U.S. The company blamed last week’s snowstorm, which caused an outage at an Oracle-operated data center responsible for TikTok operations. “We have successfully restored TikTok back to normal after a si...
TikTok, which is under new ownership in the U.S., said Sunday that it has restored service after outages last week that marred user experiences. The social network has over 220 million users in the U.S. The company blamed last week’s snowstorm, which caused an outage at an Oracle-operated data center responsible for TikTok operations. “We have successfully restored TikTok back to normal after a significant outage caused by winter weather took down a primary U.S. data center site operated by Oracle. The winter storm led to a power outage which caused network and storage issues at the site and impacted tens of thousands of servers that help keep TikTok running in the U.S. This affected many of TikTok’s core features—from content posting and discovery to the real-time display of video likes and view counts,” the company said in a post on X. TikTok service restored. pic.twitter.com/Pn3ZSTmKU3 — TikTok USDS Joint Venture (@tiktokusdsjv) February 1, 2026 In January, the U.S. finalized the deal to create a separate entity for TikTok. A U.S.-based investor consortium called TikTok USDS took a controlling 80% stake, with the remaining 20% ownership held by ByteDance. Following the deal finalization — which coincided with the snowstorm — users experienced glitches in features like posting, searching within the app, slower load times, and time-outs. TikTok noted that creators might see zero views on their posts until the problem was resolved. Later, the company said that it was working on solving the issue, but outages persisted, and users faced problems with posting content. TikTok’s transition to a new ownership structure, paired with app snafus and user experience glitches, was beneficial for some other social networks. The Mark Cuban-backed short video app Skylight, which is built on the AT protocol, saw its user base soar to more than 380,000 users in the week the deal was finalized. Upscrolled, a social network by Palestinian-Jordanian-Australian technologist Issam Hijaz...