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Declan Byrne

Corporate Affairs Reporter

1534 Articles

About Declan

Declan covers the corporate beat: earnings seasons, mergers and acquisitions, boardroom changes and restructurings. He reads the filings so readers don't have to, and prefers the footnotes to the press release. His test for a company story is simple: what changed, for whom, and does the money agree.

Areas of Expertise

Earnings M&A corporate strategy governance

Latest Articles

Bank of Russia Proposes Doubling Cash Payout Limits for Microfinance Lenders and Quadrupling for Pawnshops
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Bank of Russia Proposes Doubling Cash Payout Limits for Microfinance Lenders and Quadrupling for Pawnshops

A draft central bank rule would raise cash-desk issuance limits for MFOs, pawnshops and credit cooperatives, while leavi...

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Forbes India Brand Connect Profiles Ten Founders in Paid Entrepreneur Feature
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Forbes India Brand Connect Profiles Ten Founders in Paid Entrepreneur Feature

A paid Forbes India Brand Connect feature highlights ten founders across tech, wellness, hospitality and audio. The perf...

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India's GCCs Enter FY27 With Stronger Hiring Plans, but Talent Quality and Pay Pressures Bite
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India's GCCs Enter FY27 With Stronger Hiring Plans, but Talent Quality and Pay Pressures Bite

52% of global capability centres plan to add staff in FY27, yet 24% name quality mismatch as their biggest constraint wh...

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Nvidia Jumps 6% After Data Center Sales Drive $96.2 Billion Quarter
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Nvidia Jumps 6% After Data Center Sales Drive $96.2 Billion Quarter

Revenue rose 106% to $96.2 billion and net income nearly doubled, but Nvidia's margin guidance signals a step down. Afte...

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Morgan Stanley's Dallas Hub Highlights Wall Street's Growing Texas Bet
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Morgan Stanley's Dallas Hub Highlights Wall Street's Growing Texas Bet

Lower taxes, lighter regulation and cheaper living are drawing Morgan Stanley, Vanguard, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs deep...

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How a Mother's School-Run Problem Became Zum, a $1.7 Billion School Transport Startup
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How a Mother's School-Run Problem Became Zum, a $1.7 Billion School Transport Startup

Ritu Narayan left eBay to build Zum, a tech-driven school bus platform now valued at $1.7 billion with $333 million in 2...

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Samsung Plans Record $65–80 Billion Shareholder Payout After AI Memory Boom
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Samsung Plans Record $65–80 Billion Shareholder Payout After AI Memory Boom

The Korean chipmaker's largest-ever return programme, including buybacks and dividends, is about five times its previous...

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Why Emotional Intelligence Ranked Among Top Courses at Bank of America During an AI Expansion
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Why Emotional Intelligence Ranked Among Top Courses at Bank of America During an AI Expansion

BofA's 211,000-person workforce is choosing relationship and judgment skills even as the bank pushes AI tools. HR chief ...

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Hugging Face explores $13 billion sale as AI tooling valuations climb
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Hugging Face explores $13 billion sale as AI tooling valuations climb

The AI developer platform is reportedly working with a bank to gauge buyer interest at $13 billion or more, nearly tripl...

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Telli Ondiris Founder Hunts Designers as Cosmetics Maker Shifts to Pharmacy Format
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Telli Ondiris Founder Hunts Designers as Cosmetics Maker Shifts to Pharmacy Format

Kazakh entrepreneur Asel Tasmagambetova is recruiting packaging and brand designers as Telli Ondiris pivots back to a ph...

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How a Former eBay Executive Built a $1.7 Billion School Transport Company
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How a Former eBay Executive Built a $1.7 Billion School Transport Company

Zum says its route optimization cut one district's bus fleet from 236 to 193 and saved $3.5 million a year, fueling a pu...

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Moody's Sees Qatari Bank Profits Slipping in 2026 Before 2027-28 Rebound
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Moody's Sees Qatari Bank Profits Slipping in 2026 Before 2027-28 Rebound

Higher risk costs tied to the Middle East conflict are set to push Qatari banks' returns to 1.0%-1.1% of tangible assets...

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Why M&A Culture Is Set by the CEO's Earliest Trade-Offs
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Why M&A Culture Is Set by the CEO's Earliest Trade-Offs

Mergers force rapid decisions on brands, portfolios and people. Leaders often treat culture as a later fix, but those ea...

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Anthropic's Public Debut Arrives as AI Backlash Becomes a Formal Risk
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Anthropic's Public Debut Arrives as AI Backlash Becomes a Formal Risk

The Claude maker is heading for a record listing while investors, voters and politicians push back on AI data centres. I...

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From Compliance Gatekeeper to C-Suite Strategist: The CSO's Rapid Reinvention
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From Compliance Gatekeeper to C-Suite Strategist: The CSO's Rapid Reinvention

New Accenture and UN Global Compact data show sustainability is becoming a CFO-level priority, pushing CSOs into capital...

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DL Invest Presses abrdn Logistics Over Delayed Final Asset Sale and Exit Costs
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DL Invest Presses abrdn Logistics Over Delayed Final Asset Sale and Exit Costs

DL Invest has asked for a revised timetable and cost evidence, warning of capital erosion as the final sale slips; abrdn...

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Inside the Minnesota Gas-Station Speakeasy That Grossed Almost $5 Million in Its First Year
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Inside the Minnesota Gas-Station Speakeasy That Grossed Almost $5 Million in Its First Year

Tony Donatell turned an empty Lakeville storefront into The Farmer’s Cellar, a Prohibition-style cocktail bar hidden beh...

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J&T Banka Profit Falls 11.4% as IT Costs Outweigh Asset Growth
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J&T Banka Profit Falls 11.4% as IT Costs Outweigh Asset Growth

The private bank reported €150 million in first-half net profit as technology spending and a tough year-ago comparison o...

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Alliant to Acquire AI-Native Benefits Brokerage Nava, Betting on a New Operating Model
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Alliant to Acquire AI-Native Benefits Brokerage Nava, Betting on a New Operating Model

The deal pairs Alliant's national scale and advisory expertise with Nava's HQ platform, which reports resolving 81% of m...

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Stripe Strikes Reported $7 Billion Deal for AI Startup OpenRouter
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Stripe Strikes Reported $7 Billion Deal for AI Startup OpenRouter

Stripe is said to have agreed to buy AI model-routing startup OpenRouter for about $7 billion, a sharp premium to its la...

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Amit Metaliks Targets 800-Day Completion for ₹4,000-Crore Bengal Steel Plant
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Amit Metaliks Targets 800-Day Completion for ₹4,000-Crore Bengal Steel Plant

The company is weighing a faster 800-day timeline for its greenfield integrated steel project in Purulia, and says local...

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Adweek's 12 Campaigns of the Week: Gap, Heinz, Amazon and a Star-Studded Push for Gen Z
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Adweek's 12 Campaigns of the Week: Gap, Heinz, Amazon and a Star-Studded Push for Gen Z

A roundup of 12 campaigns shows brands leaning on creators, celebrities, product stunts and humor to reach younger consu...

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Why France's 500,000 Business Handovers Stall Before Successors Sign On
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Why France's 500,000 Business Handovers Stall Before Successors Sign On

France's succession debate focuses on finding buyers, but a quieter obstacle is emerging: identified heirs walk away bec...

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Mohamed Bouhafsi: TV heavyweight and surprise name for Olympique de Marseille presidency
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Mohamed Bouhafsi: TV heavyweight and surprise name for Olympique de Marseille presidency

The C à vous host and head of 3e Œil Productions has built a rare mix of on-air and production power. A spring rumour no...

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Reinhold Würth: Germany's Richest Man Built a Fastener Empire and a Free Art Museum Network
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Reinhold Würth: Germany's Richest Man Built a Fastener Empire and a Free Art Museum Network

Reinhold Würth, 91, tops Forbes' German rich list with an estimated €42bn, built on screws and bolts. His less-visible l...

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Trump Media Sells $100,000 Early Access to Truth Social Posts Amid Deepening Losses
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Trump Media Sells $100,000 Early Access to Truth Social Posts Amid Deepening Losses

More than 10 firms have signed up for Truth API, a paid feed giving traders early access to Donald Trump's market-moving...

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Peter Thiel's Hedge Fund Takes 1% Stake in Argentina's Vista for $76 Million
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Peter Thiel's Hedge Fund Takes 1% Stake in Argentina's Vista for $76 Million

An SEC filing shows Thiel Macro LLC bought 1.2 million Vista Energy ADSs for about $76 million, linking the tech billion...

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Fair Work Commission Awards €25,000 to Engineer Fired Over 17-Minute Airbus Delay
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Fair Work Commission Awards €25,000 to Engineer Fired Over 17-Minute Airbus Delay

Australia's Fair Work Commission ruled Heston MRO unfairly dismissed a maintenance engineer after a 17-minute Singapore ...

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India's Flex Workspace Operators Shift From Footprint Growth to Revenue per Square Foot
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India's Flex Workspace Operators Shift From Footprint Growth to Revenue per Square Foot

IndiQube, Awfis and WeWork India are layering premium offices, value-added services and digital products onto existing n...

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Sammaan Capital maps path to ₹50,000–92,000 crore annual disbursements by FY29-FY30
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Sammaan Capital maps path to ₹50,000–92,000 crore annual disbursements by FY29-FY30

Backed by IHC capital and recent rating upgrades, Sammaan Capital plans a sharp expansion in branches, staff and retail ...

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