Deals

Workers at Tata Steel’s Dutch arm oppose Thyssenkrupp merger

India Digest: ArcelorMittal to buy Bhushan Steel, GHIAL raises $350m, Amazon Pay gets $40m

Asia Dealbook: Konica Minolta, INCJ acquire Ambry; SalesCandy raises $355k

Sovereign funds’ corporate deals halve in Q3, Asians funds GIC, CIC stay active

Private Equity

Singapore’s Dymon Asia hedge fund to raise $600m in equity expansion

Australia: KKR, Ausgrid final bidders for Origin Energy’s metering unit

VinaCapital’s Vietnam Opportunity Fund invests $11m in Orient Commercial Bank

Unilever unit attracts bids from Bain, Singapore’s GIC, KKR, others

Venture Capital

Intel Capital joins $100m round in China’s Horizon Robotics, backs Japan’s DeepMind

Singapore: MAS eases rules for VC managers to boost startups’ access to capital

Fintech funding dips in Q3 but Asia on track to see new highs in 2017

S Korea’s SparkLabs launches $100m fund to back blockchain startups

Tembusu Partners-backed cricket digital platform CricHQ goes into receivership

Mountain Partners launches $100m fund for SE Asian startups, sets up Malaysia hub

Philippine startups mull IPO, equity financing – study

Indonesia: Fintech startup Bareksa to raise funds, in talks with Chinese strategic investors

India: Ivy Cap-backed Clovia to launch overseas ops in Nov; eyes SEA expansion next year

Singapore Digest: REAPRA’s new venture to focus on aviation; Marvelstone to build AI hub


IPOs & Markets

Asian companies sell most stock in U.S. since Alibaba’s IPO

Bitcoin surges to record high of over $6,000

Tencent-backed SE Asia’s digital startup Sea raises $884m in US IPO

China-based coworking space startup naked Hub plans HK IPO

Mobile & Telco

India, world’s second largest telecom market, is going through a phase of disruption

T-Mobile, Sprint plan to announce merger without asset divestitures

Idea shareholders give nod for merging mobile biz with Vodafone India

India: Consolidation wave continues in telecom, Bharti to take over Tata’s consumer mobile biz

Real Estate

CapitaLand’s hotel unit Ascott buys first Silicon Valley property for $59.9m

With more than $1b at stake, Unitech plans to sell 6 land parcels to tide over crisis

Two investors join revolt against Singapore developer’s $2.4b M&C hotels takeover

SBS Philippines’ unit acquires stake in HK-based Joune Holding

Lyft raises $1b in round led by Alphabet, valuation climbs to $11b

Paris wants to regulate Asian bike-share operators

SoftBank, Alphabet billionaires swap ride-hailing bets

Grab secures $700m debt facility to be SEA’s largest car rental platform

Rocket Internet-backed HelloFresh set to overtake rival Blue Apron in US

Amazon starts to gain foothold in India’s huge offline retail market

Q & A
Opinion
People
Rumour Mill
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PE firm Gaja Capital begins talks to exit John Distilleries
Impact Investment
Indonesia: Crowdfunding startup Danadidik raises seed round from impact fund
India: NBFC Varthana raises $3m for school financing programme
Asia Digest: ADB debt for RE projects; IIX, PTI Australia in impact investing pact
TPG secures record $2b for Rise impact investing fund co-led by Bono

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