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Craig Coben

Craig Coben is a former global head of equity capital markets at Bank of America. He is now a managing director at Seda Experts and a contributing writer for FT Alphaville.
  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Digital currencies
    Saylor’s latest strategy for Strategy: selling new shares to pay dividends

    Isn’t there a word for that?

    new
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    IPOs
    Shein’s IPO risk factors farce

    Will the FCA yield or show some backbone?

  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    Work & Careers
    The boomerang bankers for whom escape becomes exile

    It is not just pay and perks that are persuading those who walk away from the industry to return

    Illustration of a person standing in front of a U-turn sign against a backdrop of skyscrapers
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Markets InsightEuropean banks
    Italian bank share deal smacks of industrial policy

    Sale of Monte dei Paschi di Siena shares shows European governments are keen to retain control of key assets

    Three people gathered in front of Sallustio Bandini’s monument, in front of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena’s headquarters in Piazza Salimbeni in Siena, Italy
  • Monday, 23 June, 2025
    IPOs
    The King of Spacs is back

    And he has some hot IPO takes for us

  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    Special purpose acquisition companies
    Spacs are hot again, and even Goldman wants a piece of the action

    Wall Street’s Spac-quiescence to the new reality

  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    IPOs
    The City of London losing its Shein

    Please, just stop chasing trophy IPOs

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    NatWest Group
    Britain’s bank bailouts: an epic saga without a happy ending

    NatWest is no longer a ward of the state, but the UK’s GFC-era moral crusade has had enduring effects

  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Markets InsightInvestment Banking
    Even with AI, junior bankers still need the grind

    Mastery requires showing up, putting in the effort and sometimes staying late

    A Wall Street sign
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    FT Film28 min
    Michael Saylor's $40bn bitcoin bet | FT Film

    Inside the Strategy chairman's leveraged crypto gamble

    FT Film: the $40bn bitcoin bet
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    MicroStrategy Inc.
    Saylor’s bitcoin juggernaut engineers another $21bn

    The Strategy strategy will keep working until it doesn't

  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
    Citigroup Inc
    The sun sets on Citi’s Costa del Sol experiment

    No Más Málaga

  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    FT Magazine
    Is there life after banking?

    I’ve spent decades working towards the moment when I’d retire from my high-powered job in finance. Now what?

    Illustration of a person with wings flying away from a tall building shaped like a birdcage among a city skyline
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Markets InsightInvestment Banking
    The American deal machine is sputtering

    Markets are in a tailspin, making a return to the old cyclical highs much more elusive

    Anna Kendrick and George Clooney in the film Up In The Air
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    FT AlphavilleCoreWeave
    CoreWeave’s IPO tested the waters — and missed the mark

    Wishful thinking results in a faceplant

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    CoreWeave
    Public markets risk becoming a dumping ground for bad companies

    CoreWeave’s faltering IPO is a symptom of market enshittification

  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    MicroStrategy Inc.
    Saylor’s Strategy, and the trouble with Strife

    An innovative play on bitcoin maximalism, or an instrument of maximal shareholder dilution?

  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    FT AlphavilleMicroStrategy Inc.
    Saylor’s Strategy: buy higher, pump harder

    Bitcoin’s chief hype-man is testing the boundaries of public markets regulation

  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
    FT AlphavilleLeadership
    For some bankers, the Trump-Vance showdown had a familiar ring

    Stifling dissent by dominating the room isn't just Oval Office politics

  • Saturday, 22 February, 2025
    On Wall StreetJamie Dimon
    What Jamie Dimon’s viral leaked recording tells us

    Blistering critique by JPMorgan’s chief of remote work and bureaucratic bloat resonates in banking

    Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan
  • Monday, 3 February, 2025
    Currencies
    Has Michael Saylor’s ‘infinite money glitch’ run into a hitch?

    Bigmouth STRKs again

    MicroStrategy’s CEO Michael Saylor in various AI slop images
  • Monday, 27 January, 2025
    Venture Global
    Venture Global’s IPO stumble shows the limits of gassing up a valuation

    Pitch in poetry, execute in prose

  • Thursday, 23 January, 2025
    Corporate culture
    Is Wall Street going MAGA? Not when its ideology is ROI

    What counts in banking is reputation, not liberation

  • Friday, 17 January, 2025
    On Wall StreetBank bonuses
    How the bonus season unfolds

    The past dramas of ‘comp days’ have given way to more sanitised procedures

    A scene from the 1980s movie ‘Wall Street’, starring Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    MicroStrategy Inc.
    If bitcoin is the future, what explains MicroStrategy’s need for speed?

    Accelerating purchases, insider sales, and a rapidly evaporating premium

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