Repsol Chairman told Bloomberg in an interview that the oil producer is willing to acquire assets in US, Canada and Northern Europe. The company is willing to spend up to USD 10 billion for the acquisitions.
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IK Investment divest its Europe Snacks unit to Apax Partners
IK Investment Partners had sold its full ownership in Europe Snacks Group to a French private equity firm Apax Partners for an undisclosed amount and will be completed before the year ends.
Stock and bond investors seen flocking to frontier markets - industry observers
As emerging markets were becoming too volatile for some bond and stock investors, a report said majority of them had turned to frontier markets to generate better returns.
Founder Securities to exit from Credit Suisse joint venture - filing
The fate of the joint venture firm of Founder Securities and Credit Suisse have yet to be known after the former reveals its plans to sell its stake in the joint venture and merge with China Minzu Securities.
Big tech acquisitions seen surging in Israel
Dealogic data showed a big increase in the acquisition activity of big tech companies in Israel, pushing the Middle Eastern country to become a global player in the innovative tech arena.
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Resolution Ltd. is looking to sell its business unit Lombard located in Luxembourg. However, terms of the deal were unknown as talks on the sale of Lombard are still in a preliminary stage.
German enterprise software group SAP announced on Friday that it was debating internally whether to accelerate moving more of its business to the cloud, a quick change in its overall strategy that could have a small impact on its target to grow sales to more than EUR20 billion.
Thirty-one percent of investors said the settlements with regulators and fines issued by regulators against banks for selling shoddy mortgages were not enough to cause a change in the behavior of the lenders, the Bloomberg Global Poll revealed.
In a report, the Business Standard said private equity firms are a significant contribution to the consolidation of IT services and BPO sector in India. There were five private equity transactions closed this year that totaled USD1.13 billion in value.
Billionaire Zhang Zhirong offered USD589 million to take Glorious Property Holdings Ltd private, a move is seen as an effort to save a troubled shipbuilder that he founded.
Novartis told investors that it will be holding a USD 5 billion share buyback in the next two years. The share repurchase will start immediately, according to the Switzerland-based drugmaker.
American asset management firm Oaktree Capital Group was reportedly among the cornerstone investors in China Cinda Asset Management Corp's initial public offering. China Cinda is expected to launch the Hong Kong listing on Monday.
US-based pharmaceutical company Moderna Therapeutics announced its completion of a new funding round worth USD110 million for the development of its messenger ribonucleic (RNA) Therapeutics.
Incoming New York comptroller Scott Stringer will be faced with the challenge of bringing down the management fees paid by the city's five pension funds when he assumes office in January, a Bloomberg report said.
