Pulse 2.0

SoftBank Launches $11 Billion Bond Sale To Finance OpenAI Investment

OpenAI Reportedly Explores New Funding At $1.2 Trillion Valuation

WhiteHawk Minerals Raises $75 Million Private Placement To Fund Acquisitions

GCEX Names Alya Marrakchi As Managing Director Of Dubai Digital Assets Business

ASX Names Keir Barnes As CFO And Adds Mark Peterson And Elaine Vaisanen To Executive Leadership Team

Arcana Names Former Goldman Sachs Executive Rhys Williams As Head Of EMEA As Platform Serves $20 Trillion In Institutional Assets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:51 PM

Arcana has appointed former Goldman Sachs executive Rhys Williams as Head of EMEA, adding an experienced institutional markets leader as the portfolio intelligence company expands with hedge funds and asset managers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Artemis Gold To Acquire Vista Gold In $427 Million Deal, Adding 10.5 Million-Ounce Mt Todd Resource Base

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:50 PM

Artemis Gold has agreed to acquire Vista Gold in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $427 million, adding the advanced-stage Mt Todd project in Australia's Northern Territory and establishing a potential pathway toward more than one million ounces of annual gold production.

Avantor Names Former CONMED CFO Todd Garner As Chief Financial Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:49 PM

Avantor has appointed Todd Garner as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, adding a finance executive with more than 30 years of operating and public-company experience to the life sciences tools company.

Beacon Financial Names Sean Gray CEO As Paul Perrault Retires After Five-Decade Banking Career

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:49 PM

Beacon Financial Corporation has appointed Sean A. Gray Chief Executive Officer of both Beacon Financial and Beacon Bank, completing a leadership succession process following the retirement of longtime banking executive Paul A. Perrault. Gray also joins the boards of the company and bank.

Blue Gold Names Kevin Clark As Executive Chairman And Reshapes Board And Finance Leadership

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:48 PM

Blue Gold has appointed Kevin Clark as Executive Chairman as the gold mining company makes several leadership and governance changes intended to strengthen execution and develop its longer-term strategy.

Hitachi Energy To Invest $528 Million In Mississippi Transformer Factory And Create More Than 700 Jobs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:47 PM

Hitachi Energy plans to invest $528 million in a new transformer manufacturing facility in Gallman, Mississippi, marking the company's largest single U.S. investment to date and bringing its broader American manufacturing expansion program to approximately $1.5 billion.

Luca Mining To Acquire Cozamin Copper-Silver Mine For Up To $385 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:47 PM

Luca Mining has agreed to acquire the Cozamin Mine in Zacatecas, Mexico, from Capstone Copper for $290 million upfront plus as much as $95 million in deferred and contingent consideration, creating a transaction with a potential total value of $385 million.

Crane Company To Acquire Trillium U.S. Water Pump Business For $240 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:45 PM

Crane Company has agreed to acquire the U.S. pump business of First Reserve-backed Trillium Flow Technologies for approximately $240 million, expanding Crane's exposure to municipal water and wastewater infrastructure.

Perdoceo Education To Acquire South University For Up To $214 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:45 PM

Perdoceo Education Corporation has agreed to acquire South University in a transaction that could reach approximately $214 million, significantly expanding the company's graduate health sciences education platform.

Addus HomeCare To Acquire AccentCare Personal Care Business For $275 Million, Adding $280 Million In Annualized Revenue

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:43 PM

Addus HomeCare has agreed to acquire AccentCare's personal care operations outside New York for approximately $275 million, a transaction expected to add roughly $280 million in annualized revenue and materially expand Addus' nationwide home care platform.

Ocean Aviation Acquires National Jets And Plans Major Fort Lauderdale FBO Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:43 PM

Kennedy Lewis-backed Ocean Aviation has acquired National Jets at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, creating a two-airport private aviation platform in South Florida alongside its planned development at Miami Executive Airport.

Superhuman Acquires Fathom To Add AI Meeting Intelligence Across Email, Docs And Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:42 PM

Superhuman has acquired AI meeting assistant Fathom, adding meeting intelligence to a productivity suite spanning email, calendars, collaborative documents, databases and AI agents.

ThinkEquity Names Fixed Income Veteran Jamie Terranova Managing Director To Expand Institutional Trading Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:41 PM

ThinkEquity has appointed Jamie Terranova as Managing Director of Fixed Income Trading, bringing in an executive with more than 20 years of fixed income trading and supervisory experience as the investment bank expands its institutional trading platform.

QuickLogic Names James Sullivan As CFO As It Targets Growth Across eFPGA, Defense And Ruggedized Computing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:40 PM

QuickLogic Corporation has appointed semiconductor finance veteran James Sullivan Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, adding an executive with extensive public-company experience as the programmable logic company pursues growth across embedded FPGA technology, aerospace and defense, and other specialized markets. Sullivan will begin the role on October 5, 2026.

Pulsar Helium Names David Young As CFO And Director As Company Advances Topaz Project

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:39 PM

Pulsar Helium has appointed David T. Young to its Board of Directors and as Chief Financial Officer, bringing in an executive with more than 25 years of investment, energy, infrastructure and corporate finance experience.

Kirloskar Ferrous Names Ajay Shriram Patil As Joint Managing Director

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:37 PM

Kirloskar Ferrous Industries has appointed Ajay Shriram Patil as Joint Managing Director, adding an industrial executive with 36 years of global leadership experience as the company continues expanding and transforming its operations.

Paragon Capital Management Names Former Azura CEO Trevor Lau As Inaugural Chief Commercial Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:35 PM

Paragon Capital Management has appointed Trevor Lau as its first Chief Commercial Officer, creating a new senior leadership role as the multi-asset investment manager expands its client franchise, fundraising activities and strategic partnerships across Asia.

Mombak Reaches First Close Of $150 Million Amazon Reforestation Fund II And Secures $40 Million BNDES Credit Line

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:34 PM

Mombak has reached the first close of Amazon Reforestation Fund II, its second investment vehicle targeting up to $150 million for large-scale forest restoration in Brazil.

Paymob Raises $35 Million Pre-Series C To Expand Payments Across MENA

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:32 PM

Paymob has raised $35 million in pre-Series C funding to accelerate the expansion of its digital payments platform across the Middle East and North Africa, giving the company additional capital to broaden its merchant network, develop new financial technology products and prepare for the next generation of digital commerce.

PEDEVCO Names Reagan Dukes As Interim CEO As J. Douglas Schick Steps Down

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:29 PM

PEDEVCO has appointed Chief Operating Officer Reagan Tuck Dukes interim President and CEO following the departure of J. Douglas Schick from the company's chief executive role and board. The leadership change became effective September 21, 2026.

PAR Excellence Acquires Terso Solutions To Build Unified Healthcare Inventory Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:27 PM

PAR Excellence Systems has acquired Terso Solutions from Promega Corporation, combining two healthcare inventory technology platforms to provide hospitals with a more integrated system for tracking medical supplies, tissue, implants and other high-value products. Financial terms were not disclosed.

National CineMedia Completes $275 Million Captivate Acquisition, Creating 48,000-Screen Advertising Network

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 4:27 PM

National CineMedia has completed its $275 million acquisition of Captivate Holdings, combining its U.S. cinema advertising platform with Captivate's office and residential digital video network.

L&L Products Launches Toughened T-Link Thermoplastic Adhesive For Carbon-Fiber Composites

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 3:46 PM

L&L Products has launched Toughened T-Link, a fully amorphous thermoplastic adhesive designed to improve the ductility, flexural performance, energy absorption and impact resistance of layered epoxy carbon-fiber composites.

Makenita Resources Signs Option To Acquire 45,967-Acre Nova Scotia Hydrogen Project

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 3:34 PM

Makenita Resources has entered into an option agreement to acquire the 45,967-acre Cobequid-Chedabucto Hydrogen Project in Nova Scotia, significantly expanding the Canadian exploration company's portfolio with a district-scale property prospective for natural hydrogen.

Pitney Bowes Accepts $46.5 Million Of Notes Through Cash Tender Offers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 3:34 PM

Pitney Bowes has accepted approximately $46.47 million in aggregate principal amount of notes through cash tender offers covering two outstanding debt series. The tender offers expired at 5 p.m. New York City time on September 18, 2026.

Magnachip Secures $5 Million Strategic Investment From Navitas To Expand Silicon Carbide Partnership

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 3:32 PM

Magnachip Semiconductor has secured a $5 million strategic equity investment from Navitas Semiconductor, deepening a technology partnership focused on high-voltage and ultra-high-voltage silicon carbide power semiconductor products.

Mérieux NutriSciences Adds Peugeot Invest And Conti As Strategic Investors To Support Certified Group Acquisition

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 3:32 PM

Mérieux NutriSciences is adding Peugeot Invest and Continental Grain Company, or Conti, as strategic minority shareholders to help finance its planned acquisition of Certified Group and support the food testing company's next phase of international growth.

Clearwater Paper Refinances Debt With $475 Million In New Credit Facilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 3:30 PM

Clearwater Paper has completed a refinancing that replaces its senior notes due 2028 and existing revolving credit facilities with $475 million in new committed credit facilities, significantly extending the company's debt maturity profile. The new financing consists of a $200 million revolving credit facility and a $275 million term loan.

Pearson Acquires Assessment Technology Provider ITS To Expand Professional Testing And AI Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 3:28 PM

Pearson has acquired Baltimore-based assessment technology company Internet Testing Systems, expanding its professional assessment business with technology spanning remote testing, proctoring, performance-based assessments, certification maintenance and AI-powered assessment. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Telix To Acquire Radioisotope Supplier ITM For Up To $2.35 Billion To Build Radiopharmaceutical Powerhouse

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 3:23 PM

Telix Pharmaceuticals has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of ITM Isotope Technologies Munich in a transaction carrying $1.65 billion of upfront consideration and as much as $700 million of additional milestone payments, potentially bringing the total consideration to $2.35 billion.