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Tesla | February 13, 2020

Tesla Inc on Thursday announced plans to raise $2 billion in a stock offering, tapping into an astronomical jump in its share price over the past few months and reversing the electric-car maker’s often-stated policy of avoiding sales of new stock. Tesla said it would offer 2.65 million shares, of which Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk will buy up to $10 million in shares, while board member and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison will purchase up to $1 million worth of Tesla shares. Tesla&rsq...

ING | March 13, 2020

ING has contributed EUR4.5 million to a $42 million funding round in natural language processing vendor Eigen Technologies. The investment, made through the bank’s venture capital arm ING Ventures, is part of Eigen’s Series B round announced in November 2019, which also included financing from Goldman Sachs. Eigen’s NLP technology is already used by ING in areas such as Libor transition and loan operations. The Dutch bank says it intends to further the use of the technology to ...

Goldman | February 28, 2020

Goldman Sachs expects the coronavirus to drive the Federal Reserve to cut U.S. interest rates by 75 basis points by June it said on Friday, implying as many as three cuts starting at its next meeting in March. Traders are pricing in a 72% chance of a quarter-point rate cut at the Fed’s March meeting, according to CME Group’s FedWatch. The central bank’s next policy-setting meeting is March 17-18. It then has one April 28-29 followed by another June 9-10. “Although moderat...

Visa | April 08, 2020

Neat, a Hong Kong-based fintech offering multicurrency accounts to SMEs and startups, has raised $11 million in a funding round supported by Pacific Century Group, MassMutual Ventures Southeast Asia, and new commercial partner Visa. With a global count of 500M+ startups and other SMEs, funds from this round will be used to further Neat’s international expansion. After opening an office in Shenzhen in 2019 targeting Chinese exporters, Neat has just opened a new office in London and is set t...