ANZ scraps sale of NZ asset finance business
(12 January 2018 – New Zealand) ANZ Banking Group has ceased plans to sell its Kiwi car loans, asset finance and investments business UDC Finance to China's HNA […]
(12 January 2018 – New Zealand) ANZ Banking Group has ceased plans to sell its Kiwi car loans, asset finance and investments business UDC Finance to China's HNA […]
(5 December 2017 – Europe) Australia’s fifth largest banking group, Macquarie is seeking to expand its asset management arm in Europe through acquistions, a senior executive has said. […]
(1 December 2017 – Singapore) In its latest Financial Stability Review, Singapore’s central bank has said that regional banks that don’t react to the rising competition from fintech, […]
(27 November 2017 – Switzerland) Global banking giant Credit Suisse has revealed that it is backing a Swiss fintech firm in Zurich which offers an innovative receivables financing […]
(19 October 2017 – USA) JPMorgan Chase & Co has announced that it plans to acquire online payment provider WePay as the US-based bank looks to integrate payments […]
(21 September 2017 – Europe) Italy's UniCredit has recently demonstrated interest in an eventual merger with German state-backed Commerzbank, reports state. A combined entity of the two would […]
(31 August 2017 – Europe) Scandinavia’s largest payments processor, Nets is in the talks to finalise a private equity buy-out, valuing the company at around US$5 billion, the Financial […]
(28 August 2017 – Thailand) Thailand’s fourth largest commercial bank, KBank, has acquired a 9.99 percent stake in Bank Maspion Indonesia for US$20 million (A$25 million) to help […]
(21 August 2017 – United Kingdom) Macquarie Group has completed its £2.3 billion (A$3.73 billion) Green Investment Bank (GIB) deal. Australia’s 5th largest bank said the takeover of […]
(11 August 2017 – United States) Payment company, PayPal has agreed to acquire online lending firm Swift Financial to help bolster its merchant lending business, Working Capital. The […]