VENTURE CAPITAL POST

On Wednesday, Hilton Worldwide said it would start marketing a high yield bond valued USD3.25 billion on Thursday as a part of the company's refinancing ahead of its IPO.

Court papers released to the public on Friday indicated that Bank of American Corp. and Merrill Lynch & Co. would be settling on its gender bias lawsuit filed on behalf by its female brokers for USD39 million.

Nomura's co-head of financial sponsors, Saba Nazar, moved to Bank of America Merrill Lynch according to a memo issued by BAML.

Barclays announced selling its shares to raise GBP5.8 billion to satisfy Britain's financial regulators demand.

Fed's reduced bond buying threat resulted in fund withdrawals from several investors.

Alstom issued bonds while credit risk was at a reduced level.

China Cinda Asset Management Corp. planned its initial public offering with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, UBS and Credit Suisse formally set to work.

Vodafone, to entice it to sell off its share in the joint venture with Verizon Communications, would require something between US$135 billion and US$140 billion.