VENTURE CAPITAL POST

Credit Suisse is promoting veteran Swiss investment banker Thomas Gottstein to head up its ultra-rich clients business in Switzerland, highlighting the expertise increasingly sought by private banks to cater to their wealthiest customers.

Singapore's DBS Group Holdings, Credit Suisse, and ABN AMRO are among the shortlisted suitors that have placed their final round bids for Societe Generale's Asian private bank.

British discount chain Poundland is preparing for a London listing that could give it a valuation of up to GBP800 million. US-based private equity firm Warburg Pincus, which controls Poundland, is looking to raise GBP200 million to GBP300 million in the initial public offering.

Kareem Serageldin, a former banker of Credit Suisse, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in the scheme that inflated the prices of subprime mortgage bonds artificially at a time when housing and credit conditions were taking a turn for the worse.

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.

Cloud storage provider Box, a rival of Dropbox, is raising USD100 million in new funding through a share sale that would value the company at around USD2 billion.

US-based global private equity firm Advent International signed an agreement to purchase a USD1.1 billion minority stake in Ocensa, Colombia's biggest oil pipeline in terms of capacity.

In preparation for its 2014 IPO, Box had appointed banks to manage the share sale and market debut.

In a statement, Credit Suisse said it found no evidence of foreign market manipulation.

According to sources, NewStar Financial Inc. had been looking on a possible sale and hired Credit Suisse Group to solicit offers.

Investor sentiment improved in Switzerland for September, a new survey revealed.

Koor Industries had sold another 5.5 million shares in Credit Suisse. The sale was valued USD169 million said the Israeli holding company on Sunday.

James Leigh-Pemberton would take a new position as the new head of UK Financial Investments on Monday according to an internal memo released by Credit Suisse and was seen by Reuters.

World Point Terminals announced today that the underwriters for its recently closed IPO had exercised their underwriting options to purchase additional 1,312,500 common stock.

Zoopla engaged the services of Credit Suisse for its IPO.