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    Eric Platt

    Senior Corporate Finance Correspondent

    Eric Platt is a senior corporate finance correspondent for the Financial Times and contributes to Due Diligence, the paper's premium deals briefing. He helps lead the paper's coverage of private credit, including the so-called shadow banking industry, which has grown in size and influence following the 2008 financial crisis.

    He also covers Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway and will expand the FT's coverage into endowments and family offices in the US, including those managing money for Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. He was previously the FT's US markets editor, mergers and acquisitions correspondent, capital markets correspondent and a founding reporter on fastFT.

    He joined the FT in 2013 from Reuters. He graduated from New York University.

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    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      Dealmakers tackle rising rates with new pitch: take the debt with you

      ‘Portable capital structures’ avoid need to refinance in tough environment for corporate takeovers

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      Investment Banking
      Goldman to fund meagre payouts to banks hammered by Archegos collapse

      Lenders that lost billions will get back as little as 5 cents on the dollar from restructuring

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
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      Social media company makes instalment to group of seven lenders as concerns over financial health have mounted

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
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      Private equity group has shown recent appetite for investing in communications sector

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
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      Billionaire faces tough choices to meet financial obligations of takeover financed by $13bn debt

    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
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      Sixth Street leads $2.3bn debt package for Maxar Technologies buyout

      Deal to help fund satellite operator’s takeover edged out a competing loan offer from Wall Street banks

    • Saturday, 17 December, 2022
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      Musk seeks to sell Twitter shares in search of new funds

      Investors approached to purchase stock at $54.20 buyout price as social media company bleeds cash

    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
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      Investment by group comes weeks after it spent $1bn buying junk bonds tied to its takeover of Citrix

    • Monday, 5 December, 2022
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      Investors are keeping a close eye on areas ranging from US Treasury market illiquidity to Japanese government debt

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
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      Middle Eastern investors flush with cash push into sector in search for yield

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
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      Big traders flock to US equity options with fleeting lifespans

      Concerns grow over market swings as ‘zero-day’ S&P 500 contract volumes surge

    • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
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      Investors nibble on debt of companies less exposed to economic slowdown but avoid riskier groups

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      Banks
      Wall Street banks fail to find buyers for $2.4bn in Tenneco debt

      Investors balk at loan and bond to fund Apollo buyout of car parts maker as hung deals pile up

    • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
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      Investment adds another technology group to industrial conglomerate’s sprawling portfolio

    • Monday, 7 November, 2022
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      US stock hedging strategies backfire during market rout

      Traders say the performance of put options this year calls into question their value

    • Saturday, 5 November, 2022
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      US Fed’s monetary policy hits Berkshire’s stock portfolio but nearly triples returns on its cash pile

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
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      Fed warns sharply higher interest rates could spark financial distress

      Financial stability report says banks are well capitalised against shocks from a downturn

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      US employment
      US adds 261,000 jobs in continued sign of robust labour market

      October additions show resilience despite the effects of Fed tightening

    • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
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      Stocks sink after Fed chair points to higher rates to come

      S&P 500 falls 2.5% and Nasdaq Composite drops 3.4% in volatile afternoon trading

    • Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
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      Banks prepare to hold $12.7bn Twitter debt on books until early 2023

      Lenders concede they will struggle to drum up demand until Elon Musk unveils detailed strategy

    • Monday, 31 October, 2022
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      Lula makes a comeback, Russia ends Ukraine grain deal

      Banks discover that holding cash can be lucrative again thanks to higher interest rates

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
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      Alibaba’s decline has dented the publisher’s unusual investment portfolio

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
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      Musk becomes media baron with Twitter deal amid Big Tech sell-off

      Wall St bankers under pressure to offer heavy discounts on debt to fund acquisition of social media platform

    • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
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      China bulls hammered by stock rout as Xi consolidates power

      Tiger Global and Baillie Gifford among investors of companies hit by Monday’s market tumble

    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      News in-depthMarkets
      Retail investors take shelter in cash after stock market rout

      Almost $140bn has poured into money market funds as traders sit on the sidelines

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