Softbank

As of Monday, firm trading at more than a 50% discount to its October 1st net asset value

Federal Trade Commission case is latest hurdle in multibillion-dollar chip mega-deal

Micromobility operator valued at $2bn after recently closing $200m funding round

Swedish firm allows consumers to split cost of online purchases into three payments

Sendoso announces Irish companies whose products will be available via its platform

Tesco up 4% after raising outlook; launching £500m share buyback programme

People close to Japanese group say size does not exceed 5%

Co-founder and chief executive Will Ahmed says scope to create many more roles locally

Pandemic has fuelled use of credit services such as Klarna

Company backed by SoftBank and Goldman Sachs established Galway office in 2018

Start-up already has 15m personal customers and 500,000 businesses using its products

Company has developed platform that offers up to 30,000 gifts that can be sent out to staff

Deal will also see Japanese group take stake in German telecoms operator

Game over for China’s young video players, as the Premiership’s transfer window closes

European tech stocks approaching dotcom bubble-era highs

Japanese conglomerate believes Roche’s Genentech division is highly undervalued, sources say

Optimism comes despite concerns about glbal spread of Delta variant

Japan’s Nikkei ends at six-month low amid rising Covid-19 cases

Revolut has more than 1.5m Irish customers and 16m globally

Settlement with ousted co-founder Adam Neumann also counted for about $500m

Wall Street’s main indexes slide for the second straight day with Iseq also in decline

Key measure of US inflation expectations reaches highest level since 2006 as economy rebounds