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Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin faces $7-bn divorce claim in London

London's divorce courts have been a popular destination for high-value legal fights

Japanese fashion tycoon takes off for International Space Station

He is among the first self-paying space tourists since 2009

America's new aristocracy

Book review of THE 9.9 PERCENT: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture

Nykaa IPO: How Falguni Nayar proved it's never too late to start up

From leading IPOs as an investment banker to launching one herself at 59, Nykaa's Falguni Nayar has broken all templates. We look at how she became one of India's most successful entrepreneurs

Leaders under fire as leaked papers open 'Pandora' box of financial secrets

Hundreds of leaders, politicians, billionaires, celebrities, and drug dealers have been hiding investments in mansions, yachts and other assets for past quarter-century, according to Pandora Papers

Real estate billionaires gain from China's move to ease Evergrande crisis

Evergrande agreed to sell a 20% stake in the bank to the local Shenyang government for 10 billion yuan ($1.55 billion), with the bank demanding that all proceeds go to settle debts with the lender

D-Mart owner Radhakishan Damani enters top 100 global billionaires' club

DMart, set up in 2002, saw strong double-digit growth in sales and profits between FY09 and FY20

Cash glut at Warren Buffett's Berkshire may trap tech titans next

Unlike some of his ultra-wealthy peers, Buffett still prefers the nuts-and-bolts businesses of Planet Earth

Kakao Corp founder's $6 bn surge unseats Samsung heir as richest Korean

Brian Kim, the founder of South Korean messaging giant Kakao Corp., is now worth $13.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after Kakao shares rose 90% in 2021 alone

Dubai tycoon slaps $8 bn suit on BoB, EY in New York for ignoring 'fraud'

Founder of Dubai-based firm NMC Healthcare, B R Shetty, claims it sank because the two entities turned a blind eye to a series of allegedly fictitious transactions

Superyacht is at the heart of talks to settle London's biggest divorce case

Luna is the largest and most expensive single asset held by companies linked to oil and gas tycoon Farkhad Akhmedov.

Indian-origin billionaire brothers buy popular UK fast food chain Leon

The brothers look to grow their foodservice operations in Britain

Mukesh Ambani is again richest Asian as China's Zhong loses $22 billion

With a net worth of about $80 billion, Ambani is again richer than Zhong Shanshan, whose bottled-water company tanked a record 20 per cent this week

Creo Syndicate: Secret club for billionaires who care about climate change

Creo acts like an investment bank, vetting about 300 deals per year, connecting investors with possible partners, and conducting research on technologies

Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos gain most on day one of post-election limbo

US billionaires add $57.4 billion as stock markets climb

Billionaires have plenty to celebrate despite contested US election outcome

Across the board, the 167 US billionaires also gained $57.4 billion on Wednesday as investors bid up stocks, sending major averages to the biggest rallies in five months

Billionaires worldwide are now lining up to take their companies private

Companies have already announced $26 billion of transactions to be taken private by a related party this year, up about 2,500% from the same period in 2019

Amazon's Jeff Bezos becomes first person ever with worth of over $200 bn

The net worth of the world's richest person went up by $4.9 billion after Amazon stock edged up 2% as of Wednesday afternoon

Ant's mega IPO set to turn early investors, employees into billionaires

Ant Chairman Eric Jing's fortune will swell to $2.9 billion, and another 17 current and former Alibaba and Ant executives will join the ranks of billionaires

PR disaster to investors' darling: How the year turned around for Elon Musk

Tesla Inc., his electric car-maker, recently celebrated its fourth straight quarter of profit and may soon join the S&P 500 Index