Singapore's CapitaMalls Asia Ltd. said it would buy a shopping mall located in Guangzhou, China for USD361 million. CapitaMalls Asia would purchase the said property from Chinese Greenland Real Estate.
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Nedbank Group plans to exercise option to purchase Ecobank Transnational Inc stake
Nedbank Group, headed by Chief Executive Officer Mike Brown, said it plans to use its option to acquire a stake in Togo-based Ecobank Transnational Inc valued at more than USD 500 million.
FinanceIt bags USD13 million in Series A funding
Canada-based finance company FinanceIt raised USD13 million in a Series A funding round to be used for the expansion of its services to the United States.
Deutsche Telekom to sell Scout24 to Hellman & Friedman for EUR2 billion
Deutsche Telekom is nearing an agreement to sell 70% of its stake in German online-classifieds business Scout24 holding. It will be sold to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman in a deal that would value the business at EUR2 billion.
Clypd picks up USD7.2 million in Series A-1 for short TV commercials
Massachussetts-based TV advertising platform Clypd raised USD7.2 million in Series A-1 funding from Atlas Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Boston Seed Capital, and angel investors John Battelle and Brightcove.
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The skyrocketing prices of properties in Singapore led to a corresponding property boom in Malaysia where overseas buyers are targeting to buy homes, according to a Bloomberg report.
Desert Hot Springs on Tuesday announced that it would run out of money in March due to higher-than-expected salary and pension costs. It said that it could join other California cities that filed for bankruptcy last year.
JPMorgan Chase & Co finalized a USD13-billion settlement with the US Justice Department to end a long legal fight over the bank's risky mortgage practices that helped pull down the country's economy.
Cloud-based recurring revenue management solutions provider Aria Systems was able to get USD 40 million from Bain Capital Ventures and other investors for its fourth funding round.
Three financial sources said Russia-based oil firm Bashneft selected Morgan Stanley, Sberbank, and Barclays as global coordinators for the company's planned secondary listing in London.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch or BofAML has topped Citibank and Morgan Stanley in executing deals in India for the past 11 months, completing transactions worth USD 7.96 billion.
An annual Citibank survey found that Hongkongers' interest in purchasing property dropped more than 10% year-on-year and that the average quarterly property transactions fell by 40%.
Petroleum company Devon Energy Corp. was nearing a deal to takeover Texas-based GeoSouthern Energy Corp. for USD6 billion. This would be Devon's second large transaction in less than a month.
After years of continued growth since the first modern accelerator began in 2005, the startup accelerator trend has slowed for the first time in 2013, according to a report from TechCrunch.
