Industry

Transocean Hires Ex-Seadrill CFO

Esa Ikaheimonen has been appointed as the new chief financial officer of Transocean Ltd., the largest offshore rig contractor in the world.


Blackstone's Exec Gets $213.3 million as Net Income Rose

Blackstone Group says its co-founder and chief executive officer Stephen Schwarzman obtained 2013.3 million in pay and cash dividends in 2013.

A1 to Form Consortium for CEDC Revamp

A, the venture capital unit of Russia's Alfa Group, has expressed interest in forming a group to restructure troubled Central European Distribution Corp.

News Corp., Walt Disney in Talks About Hulu's Fate

Both News Corp. and Walt Disney have been discussions how to settle issuing badly affecting its jointly controlled online video site Hulu LLC.


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Best Buy Co. has rejected an offer for minority investment from past chairman Richard Schulze's private equity sponsors.
In its filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, BofA disclosed that the state of New York has been investigating how it acquire and underwrites home loans.
UBS research predicts effects of pension underfunding and corporate bond yields. In a research note, UBS is forecasting that US companies would be contributing at least US$70 billion into their corporate pension plans in 2013.
Goldman to sell debt in Chilean local market. The fifth largest US bank by assets, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, is planning to expand into the Chilean market with the sale of fifty year bonds in the local market.
Russia's richest man, Alisher Usmanov, is selling a stake worth 7.4% in the Internet group Mail.Ru.
Mediwatch and Genesis Medical have agree to dissolve their joint venture after they did not agree on several commercial aspects during their negotiations.
There is still no timetable agreed when to dispose the 82% stake of the government in Royal Bank of Scotland.
Scams on fraudulent private equities rob individuals of hard earned money. The city of Tianjin in China was rocked with controversy as thousands of retail investors claimed they were tricked by a group that offered illegal wealth management products.
BCBG Max Azria Group Inc. has been consider to be sold as it faces financial struggle. Fashion house BCBG Max Azria Group Inc. is set to launch company sale that would draw around $1 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Telecom Italia Media is expected to sell its La7 TV channel but is still in talks to sign the deal. Telecom Italia Media said that it has plans of selling its La7 TV channel to the publishing house in Cairo, Egypt and is still in negotiation of signing the deal, according to two people familiar with the issue.