M&A
Sanofi-Aventis targets troubled Genzyme Corp for takeover
24 Jul 2010
Sanofi-Aventis, the world's fourth-largest pharmaceutical company by prescription sales, is in talks to buy US-based Genzyme Corporation, the world's third-largest biotechnology company
MUFG eying to buy more banks in the US
23 Jul 2010
IDBI bank to merge home loan arm with itself
23 Jul 2010
GM to buy auto financing company AmeriCredit for $3.5 billion
23 Jul 2010
The acquisition will give GM a captive financing unit for its customers for the first time after it sold GMAC Financial Services to private equity firm Cerberus in 2006
PFC mulls acquisition to get bank status after new RBI norms
23 Jul 2010
State-owned Power Finance Corporation looking into the possibility of converting itself to a bank following RBI norms on banking licences for corporates
ONGC may get Vietnam backing for BP stake bid
22 Jul 2010
Fortis to move regulator SIC against Khazanah
22 Jul 2010
India looking to buy BP's assets in Vietnam JV
21 Jul 2010
India is keen on acquiring BP's stake in the Nam Con Son gas project in Vietnam, being divested to fund the cost of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, petroleum minister Murli Deora says
Templeton trims Parkway Holdings stake
19 Jul 2010
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