Beloved toy company founder who helped millions of kids learn to read dies by assisted suicide, leaving legacy of literacy; who is he and why did he take this step?Mike Wood, the visionary founder of LeapFrog Enterprises, known for revolutionizing children's literacy, passed away at 72 via physician-as...
23 Apr, 2025, 09.46 PM IST
Wall St ends down after Mnuchin dims stimulus hopesU.S. stocks had rallied in recent sessions on optimism that the government would provide a fresh stimulus to reduce damage caused by the co...
15 Oct, 2020, 08.47 AM IST
Wall St ends down after Mnuchin dims stimulus hopesDownbeat comments from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that a deal would not likely be made before the vote added to fragile sentiment fo...
15 Oct, 2020, 06.40 AM IST
IDFC's 'marriage made in heaven' brings Daimler's Schrempp to memoryAfter three years, IDFC Bank's low-cost deposits is at 4.06 per cent, branches is at 74.
14 Jul, 2017, 09.35 AM IST
View: It's time Indian banks borrow from Milken and show the power of lenderA surge in recent defaults was contributed by companies which had loans restructured by the Corporate Debt Restructuring cell.
03 Mar, 2017, 01.07 PM IST
Are markets developed by regulators, or crooked geniuses like Mike Milken & Harshad Mehta“The evidence over the past 30 years both in India and abroad clearly favours an independent Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA),” says Az...
25 Mar, 2015, 08.54 AM IST
What India needs is a couple of genuine blue-blooded bond houses: Sidharth Rath, Axis BankFor a natural choice doctor to end up in finance, and be persistently successful at it, Sidharth Rath at Axis Bank has achieved what few ha...
14 Jan, 2015, 11.07 AM IST
Will Corporate India figure more & more in Bollywood stories?It’s natural to think that with prosperity and Bollywood becoming more corporatised over the years, there will be a more nuanced take on bu...
02 Oct, 2012, 08.07 AM IST
Ken Moelis sets sight on India, to assist billionaire entrepreneurs seeking overseas assetsKen Moelis has set his sights on India with billionaire entrepreneurs seeking overseas assets amid policy-induced slowdown in the home mark...
10 Aug, 2012, 05.11 AM IST
Air India rents out floors at Nariman Point headquarterIn The Predators' Ball, the 1980s best-seller, author Connie Bruck describes a scene involving junk bond raider Mike Milken and a CEO of a ...
19 Jun, 2012, 10.28 AM IST
- Apollo Global Management, ICICI Venture plan NBFC to fund asset purchases
Private equity funds Apollo Global Management and ICICI Venture are planning a joint venture non-banking finance company to lend for asset ...
19 Jul, 2011, 01.05 AM IST
- Buyout firm Apollo eyes deals here
Apollo Global Management, the buyout firm run by Drexel Burnham Lambert alumnus Leon Black and Joshua Harris, may be late among peers in In...
09 Feb, 2011, 03.38 AM IST
Green is the new ‘good’Gordon Gekko, the gelslicked corporate raider of Wall Street is back. The original version was meant to be a morality tale. But the villain...
19 May, 2010, 04.01 AM IST
- Junk bond king Milken is back, plans to raise $1bn
Michael Milken, the former junk bond chief from Drexel Burnham Lambert, who served prison time for securities fraud, is back raising money.
21 Mar, 2007, 12.25 AM IST
- LBO, the smart way to acquire a co double your size
B-School students who graduated in the mid ‘80s got a taste of the country’s first leveraged buyout (or LBO) from clippings of business new...
19 Oct, 2006, 02.56 AM IST