Thai Digest: PTT unit to take over Glow Energy; TMB, Thanachart Bank in merger talks

Thai Digest: PTT unit to take over Glow Energy; TMB, Thanachart Bank in merger talks

PTT Group’s Global Power Synergy has secured the approval to acquire a 69.11 per cent interest in Glow Energy, the Thai unit of French energy major Engie while Thanachart Bank and TMB Bank are in talks for a merger.

PTT’s $4b acquisition of Glow Energy approved

The Thai energy watchdog has approved the $4-billion takeover of Glow Energy Plc by state-owned PTT Group’s Global Power Synergy (GPSC), on the new condition that the deal would not result in an electricity monopoly in the country.

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