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Capital One Is Accused of Cheating Customers Out of $2 Billion
The advertisement from Capital One had many of the same promises that other banks offer for high-yield savings accounts: There were no…
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Apollo, StanChart sign US$3 billion energy transition partnership
APOLLO Global Management and Standard Chartered have formed a partnership to finance infrastructure deals, renewable energy and the…
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Macquarie to invest up to US$5 billion in Applied Digital data centres
Investment bank Macquarie will invest up to US$5 billion in Applied Digital’s AI data centres and will take a 15 per cent stake in the…
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Malaysia’s Yinson secures deal with investors including Abu Dhabi for US$1 billion funding
MALAYSIAN energy infrastructure firm Yinson Holdings said it has signed an agreement with a consortium of investors for a funding round in…
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DBS to redeem US$1 billion of 3.3% perpetuals on Feb 27
DBS on Friday (Jan 10) announced that it will redeem all US$1 billion of its 3.3 per cent perpetual capital securities on Feb 27, the…
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GSK to buy US cancer biotech IDRx for up to US$1.15 billion
GSK agreed to buy US biotech IDRx for as much as US$1.15 billion to gain new cancer medicines. The UK drugmaker will pay US$1 billion…
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Johnson & Johnson is in talks to buy US$10 billion biotech Intra-Cellular
JOHNSON & Johnson (J&J) is in talks to acquire Intra-Cellular Therapies, a biopharmaceutical company focused on treatments for central…
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Bain matches CC Capital’s A$2.9 billion offer for Insignia
BAIN Capital sweetened its bid for Insignia Financial as takeover activity heats up for the Australian wealth manager. The Boston-based…
Politics
US firms pay over $1 billion in taxes to Russia Amid Ongoing Ukraine war
U.S. companies that have continued to do business in Russia have contributed more than $1 billion in tax revenue to Kremlin, Newsweek has…
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Japan’s NTT appoints banks for US$1 billion data centre Reit IPO in Singapore: sources
JAPAN’S Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp (NTT) has appointed Bank of America and UBS to work on a US$1 billion data centre real estate…
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Japan’s NTT plans US$1 billion data centre Reit listing in Singapore; appoints BofA, UBS
JAPAN’S Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp (NTT) has appointed Bank of America and UBS to work on a US$1 billion data centre real estate…
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Fox Must Face Smartmatic’s $2.7 Billion Defamation Lawsuit, Court Rules
A New York State appeals court on Thursday rejected a request by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation to dismiss part of a $2.7 billion…
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Blackstone’s infrastructure fund for individuals raises more than US$1 billion
BLACKSTONE is betting individuals will turn the firm into a bigger force in roads, ports and data centres. The alternative asset manager…
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Who Is Hussain Sajwani, the Developer Behind Trump’s $20 Billion Data Center Pledge?
When President-elect Donald J. Trump called Hussain Sajwani to the lectern at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday to promise a $20 billion investment in…
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Tesla poised for US$1 billion windfall from EU’s emissions curbs
TESLA could collect more than 1 billion euros (S$1.4 billion) in compensation from rival automakers that need help meeting tougher…
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Tesla poised for 1 billion euros windfall from EU’s emissions curbs
TESLA could collect more than 1 billion euros (S$1.4 billion) in compensation from rival automakers that need help meeting tougher…
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iShares MSCI Asia ex-Japan Climate Action ETF crosses US$1.22 billion in AUM
IN over a year since its launch, the iShares MSCI Asia ex-Japan Climate Action ETF has surpassed US$1.22 billion in assets under…
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Hong Kong Airport Authority sells record HK$18.5 billion of bonds
THE Airport Authority of Hong Kong sold HK$18.5 billion (S$3.3 billion) of bonds in the largest-ever issuance in the financial hub’s local…
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Micron invests US$7 billion in Woodlands advanced packaging site; 1,400 jobs to be created
MICRON Technology broke ground on its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) advanced packaging facility on Wednesday (Jan 8) in Singapore, adjacent…
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Amazon’s AWS to invest US$11 billion in Georgia to boost AI infrastructure development
AMAZON.COM said on Tuesday (Jan 7) that its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), plans to invest about US$11 billion to…
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Trump’s Dubai billionaire ally vows US$20 billion for data centres
SINCE Donald Trump was first elected in 2016, Hussain Sajwani, the head of Damac Group, wanted the world to know he was the US president’s…
Politics
Trump, Dubai billionaire unveil US$20 billion for data centres
PRESIDENT-elect Donald Trump announced an investment of at least US$20 billion from Hussain Sajwani, the head of Damac Group, to build new…
Politics
Trump Blurs Lines in $20 Billion Data Center Announcement and Other Deals
President-elect Donald J. Trump was at the lectern talking through the approaching inauguration of his second term. But across the…
Business
Microsoft to invest US$3 billion in India, to expand AI and cloud capacity
Microsoft will spend US$3 billion to expand its Azure cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) capacity in India, CEO Satya Nadella said on…