Alantra is a financial services and advisory firm that provides globally investment banking services, alternative asset management and credit advisory services. Alantra's investment banking group provides merger & acquisition advisory services, debt advisory, financial restructuring, credit portfolio and capital markets transactions for middle market business across the technology, healthcare, financial services, industrial, consumer, aerospace, real estate and other industry sectors. Alantra alternative asset management offers a broad range of investment solutions including private and alternative asset management for institutional investors and family offices. Alantra operates offices across Europe, the US, Latin America and Asia.
Trump’s Treasury is running out of money fast. Why the ‘x date’ matters for markets.
The Trump administration has exhausted its legal authority to issue new incremental debt to pay the U.S. government’s obligations — for everything from Social Security checks to military operations. I...
Is KKR’s bad bet on cycling the start of Europe’s private equity reckoning?
As lockdowns gripped Europe in late 2020, KKR was battling to plant its flag in one of the pandemic’s winning industries. The private equity pioneer lost out that year in its bid for German road bike ...
US recession would be a big catalyst for Bitcoin: BlackRock
Bitcoin would be a big winner from a potential US recession as it’s built to thrive in a high fiscal spending, low interest rate environment, says a BlackRock executive. BlackRock’s head of digital as...
As Debt Ceiling Looms, the Fed Tweaks Its Portfolio Runoff
Process of shedding assets and draining bank reserves could collide with dynamics related to raising the federal debt limit. Federal Reserve officials made an adjustment on Wednesday to their policy o...
China’s central bank follows U.S. Fed in keeping rates steady as tariff threats pressure yuan
The People’s Bank of China kept the 1-year loan prime rate at 3.1% and the 5-year LPR at 3.6%, where they have been since a quarter-percentage-point cut in October. The rate decision follows the U.S. ...
Fintech Klarna files for IPO at a weak point for public debuts
Klarna Group Plc has filed for a U.S. initial public offering at a weak moment for company debuts, though the fintech player thinks it can offer investors more than just its buy-now-pay-later products...
Robinhood to pay $30M to settle US regulator probes
Online trading platform Robinhood has agreed to pay $29.75 million to settle several probes from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) related to the company’s supervision and compliance...
Calastone Research Reveals Tokenisation Could Save $135 billion for Asset Management Industry
Calastone, the largest global funds network, has today released groundbreaking research, revealing that tokenisation – the process of transforming asset ownership into digital tokens on a blockchain –...
Howard Marks expects a lower return from the S&P 500 over the next decade. Here’s what he likes better.
Investors looking for more solid longer-term returns should be looking at credit — and not banking on the S&P 500 to get them there, according to billionaire investor Howard Marks.
“From the S&P, you...
State Street Global Advisors' much-anticipated private credit exchange-traded fund, developed with alternative investment firm Apollo Global Management, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on...