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Hut 8 Corp., one of the largest publicly traded bitcoin mining companies, named Asher Genoot to succeed Jaime Leverton as chief executive, three weeks after a short-seller released a report critical of its recent merger.

Elkington became an Alvarium director in 2009 and was a founding director of Alvarium Home REIT Advisors, Home REIT's former investment adviser.

SoftBank has fully exited PB Fintech, the parent of insurance marketplace PolicyBazaar, according to people aware of the matter. SoftBank had invested close to $200 million in PB Fintech and sold its remaining stake in a mid-December transaction for about Rs 914 crore (or $109 million). In total, SoftBank has made around $650 million in returns on its total investment in the Gurgaon-based insurance aggregator. In December, SoftBank also made an exit from Zomato. It picked up a stake in the company when the food delivery platform acquired Blinkit (formerly Grofers) in 2022 in an all-stock deal.

The exits were announced in a memo to staff from Larry Fink, chair and chief executive at BlackRock, and Rob Kapito, president on Friday (12 January).

Carta Inc., a fintech firm that works with startups, is getting out of the stock sale business following a controversy over its use of customer data. In a blog post Monday night, Carta chief executive officer Henry Ward said the company will stop its work in secondary share trading, a business it was pushing into alongside its service managing startups’ investor information, or cap tables.

American carrier Alaska Airlines, Indian aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), on Saturday, asked airlines in the country to inspect the emergency exits on the Boeing 737-8 Maxs in their fleet. Earlier on Friday, the window, emergency exit door, and the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines-operated Boeing 737-8 Max blew out during a flight, prompting the carrier to ground its fleet of Boeings.

Japan Airlines Flight JL516 skidded to a fiery halt after colliding with another plane on the runway at Tokyo Haneda airport on Jan. 2, cabin crew faced a daunting scenario. The intercom system to communicate between flight deck and cabin had broken down, one of the giant engines was still spinning and couldn’t be shut off, and only three of the eight escape doors were available to evacuate the stricken aircraft as flames licked up the kerosene-covered fuselage.

Jakub Stancl scored his second goal of the game with 11.7 seconds left in third period as Czechia survived a blown 2-0 lead to defeat Canada 3-2 and advance to the semifinals at the world junior hockey championship on Tuesday.

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Coforge in August. SoftBank and Tiger Global sold blocks in Zomato, Paytm, Delhivery, and PolicyBazaar, as the focus turned on venture capital firms returning capital to their fund investors or limited partners. Open market exits by PE/VC firms have been the highest since 2017, according to Vivek Soni, partner and national leader, private equity services, EY.

Vivek Ramaswamy has pledged to exit the GOP primary ballot in Colorado following the state Supreme Court's ruling that ousted former President Donald Trump from the ballot. The recent ruling by a court comprising justices appointed by Democratic governors signifies a historic moment, as it marks the first instance in history where Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has been applied to disqualify a presidential candidate, as reported by AP.

Lodha, listed as Macrotech Developers, has concluded the sale of its projects in London and with this has exited its investments in the United Kingdom completely. The company, based on the sales trajectory, had earlier guided the projects will be fully sold out ahead of the business plan target of the fourth quarter of the financial year 2023-24. “…the company has completed realisation of entire balance as per earlier guidance from UK Investments. The last tranche of this realisation happened on December 13, 2023, and post that the company has exited from foreign market by disposing off its entire equity and other securities investments held in entities in relation to UK Investments,” Macrotech Developers said in a regulatory filing. Lodha had also announced earlier that it is planning to repatriate all its investments made into luxury residential projects in London and revenue generated from both these super-premium projects, after repaying these projects' debt. The developer had invested 306 million pounds or Rs 3,120 crore to acquire MacDonald House, Central London in 2013 and had acquired second property New Court next to the London School of Economics and the Royal Courts of Justice on Carey Street for 90 million pounds or Rs 930 crore in 2014. The company has redeveloped both MacDonald House and New Court into luxury residential properties namely 1 Grosvenor Square and Lincoln Square, respectively.

The firm has confirmed Bromfield’s exit and ‘thanks him for his contribution’.

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty stormed into the men's doubles semifinal at the China Masters Super 750 badminton tournament here on Friday. Top seeds Satwik and Chirag dished out an attacking game to outwit world no. 13 Leo Rolly Carnando and Daniel Marthin of Indonesia 21-16 21-14 in 46 minutes.

₹507 crore from its initial investment five years ago. Affiliate BH International Holdings sold its entire 2.46% stake in the fintech firm for ₹1,371 crore to Ghisallo Master Fund and Copthall Mauritius Investment. Ghisallo picked up 42,75,000 shares, while Copthall bought the rest.

Paytm, in a large block deal on Friday, November 24. Berkshire Hathaway sold 1.56 crore shares or 2.5 per cent of equity worth nearly ₹1,370 crore at an average share price of ₹877.29, according to NSE data. Buffett had picked up a 2.6 per cen stake in Paytm in 2018, investing nearly ₹2,200 crore, valuing the leading fintech giant at $10–12 billion, according to reports.

Macquarie Group’s wealth management division is without a head of investment strategy. Street Talk understands Jason Todd is no longer at his post after almost six years in the job.

OpenAI’s interim Chief Executive Officer Mira Murati plans to re-hire her ousted predecessor Sam Altman and former President Greg Brockman in a capacity that has yet to be finalized, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. Murati, who was installed on Friday after the board fired Altman, is negotiating with Adam D’Angelo, the CEO of Quora Inc., who is acting as a representative of the OpenAI board, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the negotiations are private and remain fluid. Brockman, who was also a board member, quit in protest hours after Altman’s departure.

Investing.com — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRKb) exited its stake in a number of big-name publicly-listed U.S. businesses, including healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) and carmaker General Motors (NYSE:GM), according to a closely-watched filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday.

Brennan joined Foresight in 2017 as an investment manager, before becoming senior investment manager, director and then partner in 2021.

In his social media post Towli said: “My nine years at Smart IM and my time at Morningstar have been amazing.”