Just over four in five Swiss want to see UBS Group AG spin off Credit Suisse Group AG’s domestic bank to ensure healthy competition in Swiss retail banking, according to a recent local newspaper poll.

UBS Group AG’s emergency buyout of Credit Suisse Group AG threatens to drastically shrink the financing options for small and mid-sized companies, after the demise of a 166-year-old champion of Swiss entrepreneurship.

Valley National Bancorp and First Citizens BancShares Inc. are both vying for Silicon Valley Bank after its collapse earlier this month, according to people familiar with the matter.

BridgeBio Pharma Inc., which develops treatments for genetic diseases, is attracting takeover interest from bigger drug companies, according to people familiar with the matter.

The gap between Activision Blizzard’s stock price and Microsoft Corp.’s takeover offer is at its narrowest level since the $69 billion merger was announced in January 2022, as an update from UK regulators lifts expectations that the deal could go through.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn upped his criticism of Illumina Inc.’s acquisition of Grail Inc., saying in his latest attackthat its board set a “new low” in governance by pursuing the deal over antitrust regulators’ objections.

The SEC has received a green light to proceed on claims that Mikhail Kokorich, the CEO of Momentus Inc., committed securities fraud in advance of the satellite company’s merger with a blank-check company.