Caproasia https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest Latest India $14 Billion Wealth & Asset Management Firm Neo Group Raised $36 Million in New Funding, Founded in 2021 by Nitin Jain, Varun Bajpai, Hemant Daga, Puneet Jain, Shajikumar Devakar & AV Srikanth, Investors Include Peak XV Partners (Previously Sequoia India & SEA), MUFG, Euclidean Capital & TVS Capital Latest Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Launches Investigation on $40 Million (MYR 163.4 Million) Losses Incurred by Malaysia $48 Billion Public Service Retirement Fund KWAP for Investment in Indonesia $1.4 Billion Startup eFishery, Founder & ex-CEO Gibran Huzaifah Sentenced to 9-Year Jail Term in Indonesia for Fraud, Embezzlement & Money Laundering, Inflated Revenue by $595 Million for 2024 (January to September) to $752 Million & Generated Loss of $35.4 Million But Reported $16 Million Profit, eFishery Founded in 2013 by Gibran Huzaifah, Investors Include 42XFund, Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan), SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Temasek, Northstar Group, Peak XV (Previously Sequoia India), Responsability & 500 Global Dutch $293 Billion Pension Fund PGGM Investment Management Forms $755 Million Japan Logistics & Office Assets Modernisation Partnership (Lendlease Japan Modernisation Partnership) with Australia $1.4 Billion Real Estate Group Lendlease to Focus on Upgrading or Repositioning Assets with Initial Focus on Greater Tokyo & Greater Osaka, PGGM Investment Management WIll Invest 95% & Lendlease 5% United States $1 Trillion Private Equity Firm Apollo Capital Management to Invest $3.4 Billion (€3 Billion) for Minority Stake in Germany $55 Billion Pharmaceutical Giant Bayer Birth Control Business (Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives), Bayer Founded in 1863 by Friedrich Bayer & Johann Friedrich Weskott United States Pain Medicine Biotech Company Latigo Biotherapeutics Files for United States IPO with Earliest IPO Listing in 2026 Q3, Founded in 2018 & Raised Total $321.5 Million Funding, Investors Include Westlake Village BioPartners, Foresite Capital, 5AM Ventures & Blue Owl Capital Hong Kong Billionaire Li Ka-shing $35 Billion CK Hutchison Holdings Delays Hong Kong & London Dual Listing IPO for Health & Beauty Retail Giant AS Watson Group to 2027 Due to Potential Regulatory Issues, IPO to Raise $2 Billion at $30 Billion Valuation, Founded in 1841 as a Dispensary & Company Later Registered under Name of First Store Manager British Pharmacist Alexander Skirving Watson (AS Watson & Company Limited), Singapore Temasek Owns 24.9% of AS Watson Group Acquired for $5.7 Billion in 2014 UK $49 Billion Mining Giant Anglo American Reviewing to Sell All 85% Stake in UK Diamond Giant De Beers to Investor Group Led by ex-De Beers CEO Gareth Penny, Anglo American Reported $3.7 Billion Loss for 2025 with $2.3 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to Raise New Funding & Plans IPO by 2030 at $67 Billion (£50 Billion) Valuation, Share Sale at $13 Billion (£10 Billion) Valuation in 2024, Founded in 1994 by David Howden China $112 Billion High-Speed Optical Transceiver Manufacturer Eoptolink Technology Hong Kong Secondary Listing IPO to Raise $5 Billion, Founded in 2008 by Gao Guangrong, Current Market Value at $112 Billion, Share Price +58.5% YTD, +270.8% Last 12 Months & +3,655% Last 5 Years United States $159 Billion Payments Company Stripe & United States $94 Billion Private Equity Firm Advent International Make Offer to Buy United States Payments Company PayPal for $53 Billion in All-Cash Deal, PayPal Founded in 1998 as Confinity, PayPal Current Market Value at $49.3 Billion, Share Price -3.4% YTD, -24% Last 12 Months & -80.9% Last 5 Years Indonesia $6 Billion Renewable Energy Company Barito Renewables Makes Offer to Buy Philippines Geothermal Company Energy Development Corporation at $5 Billion Valuation, Energy Development 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