A luggage maker’s filing just pinned DeepSeek at $52bn
A luggage maker’s filing just pinned DeepSeek at $52bn

The most precise figure yet attached to DeepSeek’s worth did not come from the lab, its bankers or its founder. It surfaced in a stock-exchange filing by Anhui Korrun, a Chinese luggage maker, which discloses a stake small enough to imply the Hangzhou …

Wall Street just had its best investment banking quarter in years, and it is calling AI a super cycle
Wall Street just had its best investment banking quarter in years, and it is calling AI a super cycle

Goldman Sachs booked $3.4bn in investment banking fees in the second quarter, a record, up 55% on a year earlier. Its chief executive has a name for what is driving it. “We are in the middle of an AI CapEx super cycle where there are demands on financi…

ECB names 36 payment firms for the digital euro pilot
ECB names 36 payment firms for the digital euro pilot

Deutsche Bank, UniCredit, Revolut, Stripe and Adyen made the list. The 12-month trial starts in the second half of 2027, and the money it moves will not be legal tender. The European Central Bank published the list on Tuesday: 36 payment service provid…

Ericsson revenue falls 6% as component costs bite and licensing income dries up
Ericsson revenue falls 6% as component costs bite and licensing income dries up

Ericsson booked SEK 52.7bn of revenue in the second quarter, down 6% from SEK 56.1bn a year earlier, as weaker patent licensing income and currency movements outweighed growth in a handful of regional markets. The Swedish equipment maker published the …

New ‘Ex-Elon’ ETFs let investors track the market while skipping Musk’s companies
New ‘Ex-Elon’ ETFs let investors track the market while skipping Musk’s companies

An investment firm is offering a way to invest in the broad market without owning Elon Musk’s companies. New York-based Subversive ETFs has filed with the SEC for two “Ex-Elon” funds, Bloomberg reports. One fund tracks the Nasdaq-100 and the other the …

Revolut hires ex-Chase UK boss Kuba Fast to lead its European bank
Revolut hires ex-Chase UK boss Kuba Fast to lead its European bank

Revolut has appointed Kuba Fast, the former chief executive of Chase UK, to run Revolut Bank UAB, the Lithuania-based entity that holds the fintech’s European banking licence. The move hands one of the industry’s most closely watched digital lenders a …

OpenAI is hiring an investment banker to teach its AI the job
OpenAI is hiring an investment banker to teach its AI the job

OpenAI is recruiting an investment-banking expert to help train its AI on the trade. The job listing seeks a “subject matter expert” with at least two years of investment experience for its Applied AI team in San Francisco. Base pay runs from $185,000 …

Samsung’s Q2 profit jumps 19-fold to 89 trillion won on AI memory demand
Samsung’s Q2 profit jumps 19-fold to 89 trillion won on AI memory demand

Samsung Electronics guided to second-quarter operating profit of about 89.4 trillion won ($58.4bn) on Tuesday, roughly 19 times what it made in the same period a year earlier and, by most counts, the largest quarterly operating profit any technology co…

Klarna applies for a US banking licence, its boldest American move yet
Klarna applies for a US banking licence, its boldest American move yet

Klarna wants to be a real American bank. The Swedish BNPL giant has applied for a US banking licence, betting a friendlier Washington will let it crack a market that has bruised European rivals. Klarna has applied to US regulators to set up its own ban…

Samsung heads for an 18-fold profit jump as AI memory demand runs hot
Samsung heads for an 18-fold profit jump as AI memory demand runs hot

Analysts expect around 86 trillion won in second-quarter operating profit, a third straight record, as DRAM and NAND prices climb. Samsung Electronics is on course for one of the strangest earnings comparisons in its history. Analysts expect the compan…