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Insurance in focus: From Decline to Demand – The Evolving UK Annuities Market transcript Financial Regulation Weekly Bulletin - 3 July 2025 M&A deals under the microscope In recent years, dealmakers have grappled with an increasingly interventionist and unpredictable regulatory environment for M&A. However, there are signs that the momentum of interventionism is beginning to change with calls from politicians to make m... Private capital's year of building momentum: Is the stage set for 2025? 2024 remained a challenging year for private equity fundraisings, investments and exits. Assets purchased in the era of cheap leverage and high multiples remained locked, with many auction processes failing to take off or being interrupted, while macro-ec... M&A health-check: will favourable conditions and regulatory easing drive M&A growth in 2025? 2024 was a mixed year for dealmaking, with deal values, if not volumes, increasing compared to 2023. Whilst private capital saw a moderate increase in activity, 2024 has been notable for the significant uptick in larger corporate-to-corporate activity in ... Private equity: the evolution of an industry Since the advent of the modern private equity industry in the early 1980s, private equity houses have traditionally adopted the classic model of a buyout fund, raising capital from a club of large institutional investors to fund acquisitions and drive gro... London calling Reports of the death of UK equity capital markets have been greatly exaggerated. While the London market certainly faces serious competition from overseas, the tide is turning on the City declinism of recent years amid a series of co-ordinated efforts fro... To run on or buy-out Whilst the total value of defined benefit (DB) scheme liabilities being transferred to an insurer in the first half of 2024 has been lower than expected, the number of transactions (134) has eclipsed another record in the UK, the highest number of deals e... Time to rethink business tax (again)? Over the last year, many businesses will have incurred significant costs in adapting to the new global corporate minimum tax, but following the US election in November 2024, there are concerns about the effectiveness of this measure without US support.&nb... Navigating the Asia M&A landscape 2024 has been a relatively subdued year for dealmaking in Asia, overall. The activity levels broadly reflect pressures on M&A seen in most parts of the globe – higher inflation, higher interest rates and increased geopolitical tensions – and there hav...