Jun 5, 2013 | Asia, China, East Asia, News
Zjol.com.cn 31 May 2013 These are the first investments made by Ningbo Venture Capital Guilding Fund Management Co. Ltd, a not-for-profit venture capital established by Ningbo municipal government, with RMB100M (around $16.32M) funds. ThinkHome is established in 2008....
Jun 4, 2013 | Latin America, News, Western Europe
DealBook June 1 2013 Banco Santander said on Thursday that it had sold a 50 percent stake in its asset-management arm to two investment firms, Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic, as the bank continues to raise money to bolster its balance sheet. At the same time, the...
Jun 4, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Moscow Times 30 May 2013 Rail Garant and Rusagrotrans have agreed on the basic terms of a merger agreement that will create Russia’s third largest freight rail operator, Kommersant reported, citing three market sources. The deal is expected to be finalized this...
Jun 4, 2013 | Asia, China, East Asia, News
Bloomberg 22 May 2013 Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s state-owned investment company, boosted its stake in Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. for the third time in a year as Goldman Sachs Group exited its seven-year-old investment. Temasek bought 280 million...
Jun 4, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
S7 Group, controlled by Natalya Filyova and her husband Vladislav Filyov, has bought 25.5 percent in S7 Airlines from the government at an auction, Alfa Bank, the organizer of the auction, said Thursday, Interfax reported. S7 Group bid 1.13 billion rubles ($36.5...
Jun 4, 2013 | Asia, China, East Asia, News
Pedaily.cn 30 May 2013 Ctrip Vice President Jiang Hao confirmed to reporters on May 29 that the Company had been officially allied with 133.cn; the latter will split Ctrip’s affiliated Express Hotel Butler, an application product for searching and reserving economy...