YouGov has abandoned plans to form its own hedge fund in partnership with Numis Securities and Four Capital Partners after Numis failed to raise the funds.
Chicago-based GE Antares Capital, a GE unit that specialises in leveraged loans, has significantly reduced its lending activities to middle- market private equity firms over the past few weeks.
Just hours after Geir Haarde, Iceland's prime minister, said on Wednesday night that it was unlikely that the financial regulator would seize Kaupthing, the bank was taken over by the regulator.
Russia on Tuesday commited to pump $37bn in long-term loans into its biggest state banks amid signs that the turmoil was spreading to the real economy.