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Anne Dias-Griffin

Anne Dias-Griffin is a French-American investor. She is the founder and chief executive officer of Aragon, an investment firm active in global equities, with a focus on the internet, technology, and consumer sectors, as well as alternative assets.

Finance

Blank cheque

A blank cheque or blank check in the literal sense is a cheque that has no monetary value written in, but is already signed. In the figurative sense, it is used to describe a situation in which an agreement has been made that is open-ended or vague, and therefore subject to abuse, or in which a party is willing to consider any expense in the pursuance of their goals. The term carte blanc

Securities & exchanges

Carl Icahn

Carl Celian Icahn (; born February 16, 1936) is an American businessman and investor. He is the founder and controlling shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, a public company and diversified conglomerate holding company based in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. Icahn's business model is to take large stakes in companies that he believes will appreciate from changes to corporate policy; Icahn then

Finance

Committee on Capital Markets Regulation

The Committee on Capital Markets Regulation is an independent and nonpartisan 501(c)(3) research organization financed by contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations.

Trading basics

Fossil trade

The fossil trade is the purchase and sale of fossils. This is at times done illegally with stolen fossils, and important scientific specimens are lost each year. The trade is lucrative, and many celebrities collect fossils.

Securities & exchanges

Front running

Front running, also known as tailgating, is the practice of entering into an equity (stock) trade, option, futures contract, derivative, or security-based swap to capitalize on advance, nonpublic knowledge of a large ("block") pending transaction that will influence the price of the underlying security. In essence, it means the use of knowledge of an impending trade to engage in a person

Securities & exchanges

Gary Cohn

Gary David Cohn (born August 27, 1960) is an American businessman and philanthropist who served as the 11th director of the National Economic Council and chief economic advisor to President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2018. He managed the administration's economic policy agenda. Before serving in the White House, Cohn was president and COO of Goldman Sachs, where he worked for more than 25

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Gulfstream Aerospace

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation is an American aircraft company and a subsidiary of General Dynamics.

Securities & exchanges

Ken Griffin

Kenneth Cordele Griffin (born 1968) is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder, chief executive officer, co-chief investment officer, and 80% owner of Citadel LLC, a multinational hedge fund. He also owns Citadel Securities, one of the largest market makers in the United States.

Banking

List of banks in the United Kingdom

This list comprises banks operating in the United Kingdom that are authorised and prudentially regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), a part of the Bank of England. The PRA is responsible for the prudential supervision of financial firms that manage significant risks on their balance sheets, including banks, building societies, credit unions, and insurers. Its primary ob

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Malcolm Offord

Malcolm Ian Offord, Baron Offord of Garvel (born 5 September 1964) is a Scottish politician who has served as the Leader of Reform Scotland since 2026 and as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for West Scotland since May 2026. He was a member of the House of Lords from 2021 until his resignation in 2026. He was a member of the Conservative Party until December 2025 when he defecte

Securities & exchanges

Michael Steinhardt

Michael H. Steinhardt (born December 7, 1940) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist. In 1967, he founded a hedge fund, Steinhardt Partners, which he ran until he closed it in 1995. After a hiatus from work, he returned to head WisdomTree Investments in 2004. In January 2014, he was on the cover of Forbes Magazine, referred to as "Wall Street's greatest trader".

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Raymond James Morgan Keegan

Raymond James Morgan Keegan is the interim name of the former Morgan Keegan & Co. business units acquired by Raymond James Financial on April 2, 2012. The combined firms’ subsidiaries engage primarily in investment and financial planning, investment banking, fixed income products and asset management. The combined firms’ Fixed Income group is located in the former Morgan Keegan corporate

Trading basics

Robert Holmes à Court

Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court (27 July 1937 – 2 September 1990) was a South African-born Australian businessman who became Australia's first billionaire. He died suddenly of heart failure in 1990 at the age of 53.