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Latest SPAC News: Xos partners with Yancey Bros, FaZe Clan announces MoonPay as official crypto and NFT partner, and Arnault-backed group launches second SPAC listing
Xos Announces Strategic Partnership with Yancey Bros. Co.
Xos, Inc. (NASDAQ: XOS), a leading manufacturer of fully electric Class 5 to Class 8 commercial vehicles, today announced it has entered a strategic partnership with Austell, Ga.-based Yancey Bros. Co., the nation’s oldest Caterpillar dealer, to distribute Xos vehicles across the state of Georgia.
Yancey will leverage its existing infrastructure and facilities, including dedicated truck service centers across the state of Georgia, to help drive the adoption of Xos electric trucks. Yancey currently operates 29 facilities across the state.
NextGen Acquisition Corp. approved its combination with Xos at a shareholder meeting on August 18.
READFaZe Clan Announces MoonPay As Official Crypto and NFT Partner
FaZe Clan, the lifestyle and media platform rooted in gaming and youth culture, today announced a multi-year partnership with MoonPay, a leading global crypto payments infrastructure provider giving millions of users quick access to the crypto economy by offering an easy and secure way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies and NFTs.
The agreement represents MoonPay’s biggest partnership to date and establishes MoonPay as the official crypto and NFT partner of FaZe Clan.
B.Riley Principal 150 (NASDAQ:BRPM) initially announced its combination with FaZe Clan on October 25.
READArnault-backed Group Launches Second SPAC Listing
France’s richest man Bernard Arnault and former UniCredit head Jean Pierre Mustier will publicly list a second blank check vehicle in Amsterdam, raising 200 million euros ($226 million).
Earlier this year, the duo raised half a billion euros from their SPAC, Pegasus Acquisition Company Europe B.V., which is searching for takeover targets in the financial sector.
On Tuesday, the same group of backers announced they would list a second vehicle with an entrepreneurial focus, Pegasus Entrepreneurial Acquisition Company Europe, in Amsterdam.
At the SPAC of Dawn October is quickly catching up to last month’s SPAC IPO figures and is now pacing to break them with two more SPACs pricing last night. This comes amid continued signals that the IPOs of all kinds are not keeping up with rising market sentiment and a high demand for private...
Rising Dragon Acquisition Corp. announced the pricing of its $50 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “RDACU”, Friday, October 11, 2024. The new SPAC does not plan to target a particular industry or geography in its combination search but plans to leverage the experience of...
Cohen Circle Acquisition Corp. I announced the pricing of its $200 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “CCIRU”, Friday, October 11, 2024. The Company’s primary focus will be to identify companies in the financial services technology (fintech) sector and fintech adjacent sectors that power transformation...
At the SPAC of Dawn Thirteen years ago, comedian Louis CK built a career resurgence around his observation as a late night show guest that “Everything is amazing right now and no one is happy”. The public markets appear to be in a similar state in some ways, in that overall prices have rebounded with...
At the SPAC of Dawn The market will get more Fed minutes to chew on today ahead of new CPI and PPI readings to finish the week. Meanwhile, the raft of SPACs from the previous cycle that are getting long in the tooth are still reading the tea leaves in terms of how many flexible...