CFOs at startups looking to combine with a SPAC have to do three things at once: Negotiate the merger, prepare to become a public company and raise new funds from investors.

ByteDance Ltd., owner of the popular TikTok video-sharing platform, has poached an executive from smartphone giant Xiaomi Corp. to become its new finance chief.

Drugmaker Merck & Co. promoted a 30-year company veteran to the role of finance chief after elevating the incumbent to chief executive officer.

Software maker Adobe Inc. is searching for a new finance chief as incumbent Chief Financial Officer John Murphy plans to retire.

Chat service Discord Inc. has hired its first finance chief, a move that comes after a year of pandemic-fueled growth in users and revenue.

The U.K. government is seeking feedback on a range of proposals to overhaul the country’s audit sector following a series of corporate scandals as well as similar regulatory efforts in Germany.

General Electric Co. ’s former finance chief is taking over the purse strings at Cargill Inc., a private agricultural conglomerate with more than $100 billion in annual revenue.

Hormel Foods Corp.’s finance chief is preparing a bond sale in part to finance the company’s recent purchase of Kraft Heinz Co.’s nuts business.

Verizon is raising $25 billion in new debt to help it settle a bill for spectrum licenses coming due this month.

Counting the assets that The Brink’s Co. acquired as part of an $860 million deal took the company’s finance chief nearly a year because of pandemic-related restrictions.