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Silver Lake hires banks for Mercury Payment IPO-sources
Private equity firm Silver Lake has hired JPMorgan Chase & Co, Barclays Plc and Morgan Stanley to lead a potential initial public offering of Mercury Payment Systems LLC, according to people familiar with the matter.
SIRIUS FINANCIAL SERVICES ACQUIRES FARMICA AFRICA
Sirius Financial Services, Inc. acquired a new subsidiary, Farmica Africa, a producer of Lemon grass based products including tea, soap, an energy drink, insect repellant and essential oil.
Banco de Bogota to issue stock to fund acquisitions
Colombia's second-largest bank, Banco de Bogota, will issue up to 1.3 billion pesos ($677 million) in stock on Wednesday to raise cash to pay for BBVA Panama, which it announced it was buying in July, it said on Wednesday.
Fed officials felt taper may happen at next few meetings-minutes
Federal Reserve officials felt they could decide to start scaling back the U.S. central bank's massive asset purchase program at one of its next few meetings, provided this was warranted by economic growth, minutes of the Fed's October policy meeting showed.