On the financial sector radar this week: Axial CEO Peter Lehrman predicts that financial firms will show more activity in 2016. Meanwhile, Airbus partners with Uber to provide on-demand helicopter service.Insights

• Investors should watch these potential trends in 2016.
• Health care data providers are becoming attractive targets due to the Affordable Health Care Act.
• Banks are curbing lending for leveraged buyouts after junk debt markets tank.
• Sponsor-backed IPOs suffer in �bruising� stock market sell-off.
• Investors look elsewhere amid declining dividend recaps.
• Political candidates say they support cutting favorable tax treatment of carried interest.

Transactions

• Univision invests in satire by buying a stake in The Onion.
• Uber receives $2 billion in investments from China.
• Computer and printer manufacturer Lexmark is among the 6 top companies looking for a buyer.
• Ardrian European Infrastructure Fund eyes infrastructure investments in the U.S.
• Tennenbaum Capital Partners earmarks $730 million for a special situations fund.
• Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions commits $55 million across three private equity funds.

This Day In History (Jan. 21):1948: The collapse of the anti-Communist government in China paves the way for Communist forces to take over, sending shockwaves through worldwide markets. The Chinese demand for American goods is diminished for several years.