Reliance and Aramco call off the proposed investment deal

Reliance and Saudi Armco have mutually decided to call off the proposed investment by the latter of $15 bn into Reliance’s Oil to Chemicals (O2C) business. “Due to the evolving nature of Reliance’s business portfolio, Reliance and Saudi Aramco have mutually determined that it would be beneficial for both parties to re-evaluate the proposed investment … Read more

GMR Wins an airport project in Indonesia

GMR is announced as the winning bidder for development and operation of Kualanamu International Airport in Medan, Indonesia. Key points to note – Contract has been won by GMR Airports Limited (GAL), a subsidiary of GMR Infrastructure Limited. GMR will enter into 49:51 partnership with Angkasa Pura 2 (AP2) for this project. AP2 is a … Read more

Young Wall Streeters are pumping their bonus checks into crypto. Here’s an inside look at how they’re making trades — and what their firms’ compliance departments have to say about it.

Personal-trading policies at banks largely allow crypto investments without any sort of compliance check-ins first. Young bankers are piling into crypto investments. Banks have strict rules around personal investments, but crypto trades go largely untracked. But that could change as firms get more involved in digital assets. Seth, a 22-year-old investment-banking analyst in Chicago making … Read more

China fines tech giants for failing to report 43 old deals

China’s market regulator on Saturday said it was fining companies including Alibaba, Baidu and JD.com for failing to declare 43 deals that date as far back as 2012 to authorities, saying that they violated anti-monopoly legislation. Enterprises involved in the cases would be fined 500,000 yuan ($78,000) each, it said, the maximum under China’s 2008 … Read more

alibaba: Alibaba says profit falls 81% as China tech crackdown bites

Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba Group said on Thursday that its profit for the most recent quarter tumbled 81 percent as a government crackdown on the country’s big tech champions bit into its bottom line. Alibaba said its profit came in at 5.37 billion yuan ($833 million) for the July-September period, falling from 28.77 billion yuan … Read more

Kubota decides to buy fresh into Escorts. Promoters stay back.

There was a rumour few months back that Kubota will buyout Nanda family. What has instead happened is that Kubota has decided to invest fresh and become a joint promoter with Nandas. Key points to note – Kubota is investing Rs 1,873 crore into Escorts at a price of Rs 2,000/ share. As per regulations, … Read more