Curated newsletters and essential subscriptions
The essential daily and weekly newsletters finance professionals read for M&A rumors, deal engineering, and balance sheet analysis.
Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: the definitive daily Wall Street column1
Published daily by Bloomberg Opinion, Matt Levine's column is universally read across investment banking, private equity, and corporate law. It explores financial engineering, merger arbitrage, securities litigation, private debt structuring, and market microstructures with mathematical rigor and sharp legal lucidity. An absolute must-subscribe for anyone seeking to understand how high finance truly functions.
FT Due Diligence: the inside track on global M&A and corporate power2
A specialized daily briefing authored by the Financial Times' top deal reporters across London, New York, and Hong Kong. It delivers scoops on mega-mergers, activist hedge fund campaigns (Elliott, Third Point, Cevian), private credit disintermediation, and regulatory review battles before the European Commission and the FTC.
Exec Sum: morning market wrap and transaction highlights3
Created by Litquidity, Exec Sum is a concise daily morning newsletter designed for finance professionals. It summarizes global macro data, overnight Asian and European trading, corporate earnings surprises, active M&A transactions, and institutional capital market pricings in a clear, fast-reading bulleted format.
The Banker: balance sheet analysis and tier-1 capital rankings4
An authoritative monthly publication by the Financial Times Group focused on the structural mechanics of commercial and investment banking. Known for its annual Top 1000 World Banks ranking based on Tier 1 capital, it is essential reading for financial institutions group (FIG) specialists examining bank capital adequacy, Basel IV implementation, and bank consolidation.
PitchBook News: private equity multiples and European sponsor reports5
Providing daily reporting and quarterly macro benchmarks on European and US private equity, venture capital, and private debt. Its quarterly European PE Breakdown reports offer empirical data on buyout EV/EBITDA multiples, debt leverage ratios, add-on acquisition velocity, and sponsor-to-sponsor exit trends.