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Arm raises $4.87bn in year’s biggest IPO

After the IPO, Japanese conglomerate SoftBank will still control about 90 per cent of the company’s shares

British chipmaker Arm edges closer to mega $70bn IPO

The Cambridge-based tech company’s public debut is expected to be the largest IPO this year and could rival other big public offerings by Alibaba and Facebook

The Big Picture

Vincent Boland: SoftBank’s troubles may be an ominous sign of things to come

Now that the era of cheap money that drove the success of the private equity sector is coming to an end, the billionaire Masayoshi Son may not be the only one whose fortunes are turning

Vincent Boland: Reality bites for Big Tech as $40bn deal fails to get past M&A watchdogs

That regulators pounced on the intended sale of strategic British tech firm Arm by SoftBank to Nvidia shouldn’t have come as such a surprise

Vincent Boland: Japanese finance’s favourite Son loses knack of picking winners

Masayoshi Son’s attempt to reinvigorate his beloved SoftBank by mounting a share buyback is a lame attempt to rouse it out of its own inertia

Vincent Boland: Exxon loses its way as oil giant goes from leader to laggard

Climate change is now about business rather than emotion and Exxon-Mobil must reinvent itself if it is to catch up with its rivals in the transition to clean energy