UK to sell off 900-million-pound student loan portfolio-report

The British government will announce on Monday it has agreed a deal to sell off a portfolio of student loans worth 900 million pounds, Sky News reported on Sunday, quoting people close to the situation.


New roads enthuses Zambians but unnerves foreign investors

President Michael Sata's drive to upgrade the country's rough roads, which often become impassable in the rainy season, is popular with many Zambians like Moyo. But foreign investors, who must partly fund such ambitious schemes, are less keen on his costly promises and very public dust-ups with business.

Arqaam values pay TV firm OSN at $4.3 bln ahead of planned IPO

Dubai-based pay-TV network OSN, which is planning an initial public offering, is worth about $4.3 billion post its recent acquisition of Pehla Media & Entertainment, brokerage Arqaam Capital said in a research note.

CORNERSTONE INVESTORS COMMITTING ABOUT $1.1 BLN TO CHINA CINDA'S UP TO $2.5 BLN HONG KONG IPO - SOURCES

A group of 10 investors, including Norway's sovereign wealth fund and Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, have together committed to buy about $1.1 billion into China Cinda Asset Management Corp as part of its Hong Kong IPO, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.


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A group of 10 investors, including Norway's sovereign wealth fund and Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, have together committed to buy about $1.1 billion into China Cinda Asset Management Corp as part of its Hong Kong IPO, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday
With almost 150 plot bookings from MSME companies, Gujarat's plastic park at Dahej and Sanand are expected to attract around INR5000 crore worth of investment in India.
Europe's top carmaker Volkswagen (VW) has revealed its plan to invest EUR84.2 billion in the next five years for technology upgrades and modernization of its plants.
The Department of Energy will lose about USD139 million on a loan given to Fisker Automotive under a clean vehicles program after the automaker sold part of the loan to Hybrid Technology.
PSA Peugeot Citroen is preparing to replace its present Chief Executive Officer Philippe Varin for a joint venture with Chinese partner Dongfeng, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The shutdown of Russian bank Master Bank was the central bank's most high-profile move yet under the leadership of Russia's first female governor Elvira Nabiullina.
The fund formerly known as Genesis Angels supported startups like Sirim, StoreDot Ltd and other chosen, early-stage startups in Israel via a combined investment of USD34.5 million.
A Saturday announcement revealed that Pfizer Ltd, Pfizer Inc's Indian unit, would be merging with its local affiliate Wyeth Ltd after both pharmaceutical firms' boards approved the deal.
A revelation from Semantria founder Oleg Rogynskyy disclosed that the partnership of the sentiment and text analytics services provider and Web scraping API developer Diffbot was born at a hackathon in San Francisco.
TransUnion securing the approval from the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida to acquire TLO LLC would mark the end of the court-supervised acquisition.