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Eric Platt

Senior Corporate Finance Correspondent

Eric Platt is a senior corporate finance correspondent for the Financial Times and contributes to Due Diligence, the paper's premium deals briefing. He helps lead the paper's coverage of private credit, including the so-called shadow banking industry, which has grown in size and influence following the 2008 financial crisis.

He also covers Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway and will expand the FT's coverage into endowments and family offices in the US, including those managing money for Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. He was previously the FT's US markets editor, mergers and acquisitions correspondent, capital markets correspondent and a founding reporter on fastFT.

He joined the FT in 2013 from Reuters. He graduated from New York University.

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  • Monday, 15 May, 2023
    Berkshire Hathaway Inc
    Buffett’s Berkshire bet almost $1bn on credit card issuer Capital One

    Investment conglomerate exited stakes in US Bancorp and Bank of New York Mellon in first quarter

  • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
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    Oaktree’s Howard Marks warns of crunch time for private credit

    Billionaire investor says higher interest rates and slower growth are about to put $1.5tn market to the test

  • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
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    US lenders warned that commercial property is ‘next shoe to drop’

    Executives and investors fret about impact of rising rates and empty buildings on $5.6tn market

  • Monday, 8 May, 2023
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    Warren Buffett’s chosen successor learns to relish Berkshire spotlight

    Greg Abel is becoming better known to the conglomerate’s followers and hands-on with its operations

  • Saturday, 6 May, 2023
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    Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway dumps billions of dollars of US stocks

    Cash pile rises by $2bn to $130.6bn as sprawling conglomerate finds little to spend on

  • Saturday, 6 May, 2023
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    Berkshire chief holds forth at annual gathering against backdrop of US banking turmoil

  • Sunday, 30 April, 2023
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  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
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    Bernard Arnault’s group seeks to transform storied American jeweller from mid-market to high luxury

  • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
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  • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
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    Qualtrics eventually sold for $12.5bn to Silver Lake and CPP in largest leveraged buyout of year

  • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
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    Decision takes Wall Street by surprise after private equity firm lined up billions in financing to buy a 50% stake

  • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
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  • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
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  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
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  • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
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  • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
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  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
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    California Democrats say authorities should analyse whether Wall St bank operated ‘at arm’s length’ in advising lender

  • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
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  • Friday, 10 March, 2023
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    Tech-focused lender failed in eleventh-hour attempt to raise new capital after facing $42bn in deposit outflows

  • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
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  • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
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  • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
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  • Monday, 27 February, 2023
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    Feared to be facing bankruptcy three years ago, oil producer Occidental is set to report its biggest-ever earnings

  • Monday, 27 February, 2023
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    Wall Street banks seek to offload billions from one of biggest ‘hung deals’ of 2022

  • Monday, 27 February, 2023
    Union Pacific Corp
    Union Pacific to replace chief after hedge fund urges change

    Soroban says freight rail operator lagged behind rivals under Lance Fritz’s leadership

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