
Blackstone Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Investor Call
Blackstone (NYSE:BX) announced today that it will host its fourth quarter and full year 2023 investor conference call via public webcast on January 25, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. ET. To register, please use the following link: https://event.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1649868&tp_key=e37365a1ec. For those unable to…

Chubb Limited to Hold its Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call on Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Chubb Limited (NYSE: CB) will hold its fourth quarter earnings conference call on Wednesday, January 31, 2024, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern. The company expects to issue its fourth quarter earnings release and financial supplement after the market closes on Tuesday, January 30, 2024. These…

Elevance Health to Acquire Paragon Healthcare
Elevance Health (NYSE: ELV) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Paragon Healthcare, Inc., a company specializing in life-saving and life-giving infusible and injectable therapies. For more than 20 years, Paragon Healthcare has provided infusion services to…

Wells Fargo to Announce Fourth Quarter 2023 Earnings on Jan. 12, 2024
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), as previously announced, will report its fourth quarter 2023 earnings results on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, at approximately 7:00 a.m. Eastern time. The results will be available online at In addition to being available…

Bank of America to Report Fourth-Quarter 2023 Financial Results on January 12
As previously announced, Bank of America will report its fourth-quarter 2023 financial results on Friday, January 12. The results will be released at approximately 6:45 a.m. ET, followed by an investor presentation at 11 a.m. ET. The news release, supplemental…

SoftBank Corp.-led Proposal toExpand Spectrum Use for HAPS Base Stations Agreedat World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 (WRC-23)
SoftBank Corp. (President & CEO: Junichi Miyakawa, “SoftBank”) is conducting international standardization activities related to High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) spectrum for stratospheric-based wireless communication systems at the International Telecommunication Union Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) and Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT). SoftBank announced…

Mastercard SpendingPulse: U.S. retail sales grew +3.1%* this holiday season
According to preliminary insights from Mastercard SpendingPulseTM, U.S. retail sales excluding automotive increased +3.1% year over year this holiday season, running from November 1 through December 24. Mastercard SpendingPulse measures in-store and online retail sales across all forms of payment and is…

Future-ready: Trust, prevention, and digitalization key to meeting customers’ evolving needs
ven Marvel’s Avengers inhabited a VUCA world (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous)—a world where the traditional approach of simply responding to threats as they arise was not sufficient to address the magnitude of the risks that were emerging. To truly safeguard their…

BBIX and EHIME CATV Sign Business Partnership with Open Connectivity eXchange
BBIX, Inc. (“BBIX”), a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp. that operates an Internet Exchange (“IX”) business, has entered into a business partnership agreement with EHIME CATV, Inc. (“EHIME CATV”) on Open Connectivity eXchange (“OCX”), a cloud-based network service. With this partnership…

Blackstone Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Sony Payment Services, Broadening its Japan Private Equity Portfolio
Blackstone (NYSE: BX) today announced that Private Equity funds managed by Blackstone have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Sony Payment Services Inc. (SPSV), one of Japan’s leading payment service providers, from Sony Bank, a…

SoftBank Corp. Successfully Tests Coverage Area Optimization Technology that Realizes Communication Capacity Maximization for HAPS
SoftBank Corp. (President & CEO: Junichi Miyakawa, “SoftBank”) today announced that in September 2023 it successfully conducted a field trial using its cylindrical antenna*1 for High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) stratospheric-based wireless communication systems at Hokkaido Spaceport, Taiki Town, Hokkaido, Japan.…

Morgan Stanley at Work Unveils Technology Enhancements for End of Year 2023
Morgan Stanley at Work announced a series of technology enhancements that drive increased automation and efficiency across a widening ecosystem of workplace benefits solutions for equity compensation, retirement, deferred compensation, executive services, saving and giving, and financial wellness. Morgan Stanley at…

