EIB Ireland business loan scheme expanded to €1bn
The European Investment Bank Group, Irish Government and the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) announced the expansion of the Growth and Sustainability Loan Scheme…
Read MoreThe European Investment Bank Group, Irish Government and the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) announced the expansion of the Growth and Sustainability Loan Scheme…
Read MoreHamburg-based growth investor DTCP announced the first closing of DTCP Defence Fund I, securing €455 million in commitments. DTCP Defence is a Europe-led, NATO-aligned investment…
Verda, the Helsinki-based AI infrastructure company formerly known as DataCrunch, has become Europe’s latest unicorn with $189 million in new funding. The financing includes an…
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Crédit Agricole CIB have signed an agreement to support European energy grids. The EIB said it will provide up…
M&G announced the issuance of a €500 million first green bond by its €5.4 billion M&G European Property Fund, providing additional capacity for investment, acquisitions…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday she wanted to open the door to Canada becoming the first “associate” member of the…
Rome-based Exein, the Physical AI cybersecurity company, has announced $270 million in new funding at a $1.7 billion valuation, making it the “most valuable cybersecurity…
By Mark McSherry Global company dividends reached $757.8 billion in the second quarter while share buybacks surged 26.8% year-on-year to $572 billion, driven by increased…
The European Investment Bank (EIB) said it has signed a €630 million financing agreement with Romania for the upgrade of the Brașov–Sighișoara railway, alongside EU…
Milan-based technology conglomerate Bending Spoons — which recently acquired Eventbrite, AOL and Vimeo — said it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AI innovation…
Google said it plans to invest at least €13 billion in digital infrastructure in Finland over the next two years (2027 – 2028) “deepening its…
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted Elia Transmission Belgium a credit facility of €1 billion on favourable terms for the second phase of the…
Portugal is to upgrade or build 50,000 social housing units with the support of a €1.5 billion loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). Both…
Claret Capital Partners has announced the final close of its Claret European Growth Capital Fund IV, raising €575 million “to back Europe’s boldest innovators.” Following…
Volkswagen’s supervisory board has approved a “transformation” plan that will include cutting another 50,000 jobs — on top of 50,000 job cuts already agreed. That…
By Mark McSherry The central bank of the Netherlands — De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) — said it “has improved the tradability of its gold reserves”…
The European Investment Bank (EIB) said it is lending up to €100 million to Swedish medical-technology company Elekta AB to advance treatments for a range…
Berlin-based Cloover, the AI-native energy platform for residential solar, heat pumps and home electrification, said it has secured a new $100 million facility, taking its…
Elche, Spain-based PLD Space, the international space transportation company, has extended its Series C funding round, originally launched in March 2026, with an additional €108 million investment, bringing the total…
Swedish private equity group EQT has completed its $3.2 billion acquisition of London-based Coller Capital. Coller – now operating as Coller EQT – is one…
A group of the Nordic region’s largest investors and companies are in discussions to create a “single, unified” stock exchange, Bloomberg News reported, citing sources….
The European Commission approved €6.1 billion in new defence procurement for Ukraine on Monday — Ukraine Independence Day. The Commission said the new funding covers…
Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena has launched separate all-share takeover bids totalling about €34 billion for Banco BPM and Italian insurer Banca Generali…
The European Commission said it has “positively assessed” Poland’s fifth payment request for €7.9 billion under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU. “This…
Oceanloop, a German aquaculture technology company developing software-driven recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), has secured up to €38.5 million to scale its technology and expand production…
Stockholm-based vibe coding startup Lovable said it has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and…
Nasdaq said it has appointed Nikolaj Kosakewitsch as Head of European Market Services, effective immediately. Kosakewitsch assumes full leadership of Nasdaq’s trading, listings, clearing and…
Revolut announced that Revolut Bank S.A. (RBSA) has received a full banking licence, following a joint assessment by the ACPR, the French prudential regulator, and…
Munich-based NavVis — a “spatial twin platform for the built world” — said it secured a $85 million investment round, led by US private equity…
Swedish private equity giant EQT announced that the European Union’s €5 billion Scaleup Europe Fund has completed its first investment by co-leading ICEYE’s Series F…
Milan-based technology conglomerate Bending Spoons — which recently acquired Eventbrite, AOL and Vimeo — said on Tuesday it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire…
Capital markets firm Euronext published its results for the second quarter of 2026, showing Q2 “underlying revenue and income” up 16.9% at €544.4 million. Euronext’s…