Norway’s largest bank DNB has agreed to buy Swedish investment bank and asset manager Carnegie from private equity firm Altor and minority owners for around 12 billion Swedish crowns ($1.14 billion), it said on...
UBS sells its 50% stake in Swisscard to American Express
UBS is offloading part of the Credit Suisse business it acquired last year with a deal to sell the fallen bank’s 50% stake in credit card provider Swisscard. UBS will sell its 50% holding in the company to its...
StanChart sells India personal loan business to Kotak Mahindra Bank
Kotak Mahindra Bank will buy Standard Chartered Bank’s personal loan business in India, the Indian lender said on Friday, leaving the U.K.-based company to focus on its wealth and investment banking business in...
Central Bank of India gets CCI’s nod to acquire stakes in two Future Generali entities
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Tuesday cleared state-owned Central Bank of India’s proposed stake acquisition of stakes in Future Generali India Insurance and Future Generali India Life Insurance...
French bank Credit Agricole to buy 50% of GAC’s leasing unit
Credit Agricole is planning to buy a 50% stake in the leasing unit of Chinese carmaker Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) as part of a broader deal that makes the French bank a partner of GAC to finance its car sales in...
Labour Scraps UK State Bank Merger in Green Investment Overhaul
The UK’s new Labour government has slashed the amount of taxpayer funds it plans to give its new National Wealth Fund by a fifth and scrapped a proposed merger between two state investment agencies as its ambitions...
NCLT approves ICICI Bank’s scheme of delisting its affiliate ICICI Securities from the bourses
The Ahmedabad bench of the National Company Law Tribunal approved the ICICI Bank’s application for the scheme of arrangement for delisting of broking firm ICICI Securities Ltd from the bourses. On Wednesday the bench...
Greece concludes post-crisis bank privatisations with 10% stake sale in National Bank
Greece concluded on Thursday the re-privatisation of its lenders with the sale of a 10% stake in National Bank (NBG) amid strong demand from investors, sources said. The sale raised 690 million euros ($760.93 million)...
NCLAT issues notice to ICICI Securities in delisting case
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Tuesday issued a notice to ICICI Securities following an appeal by the minority shareholders against the tribunal’s order approving the financial broking...
IDFC to merge with IDFC FIRST Bank, effective October 1
IDFC Ltd on Friday announced that it will merge into IDFC First Bank effective October 1. This came after the Chennai bench of the National Company Law Tribunal sanctioned the merger scheme on September 25. Post October...
Nomura, Mizuho are leading bidders for one of India’s biggest investment banks
Nomura Holdings Inc. and Mizuho Financial Group Inc. are the leading bidders for a majority stake owned by KKR & Co. in one of India’s biggest investment banks, according to people familiar with the matter. The two...
UBS Group completes acquisition of HDFC Bank shares valued at Rs 543 cr
Swiss financial services company UBS Group on Wednesday bought shares of private sector lender HDFC Bank for over Rs 543 crore through an open market transaction. According to the block deal data available on the BSE...
