Investment

Blackstone-managed private equity funds have entered into a definitive agreement with Serco Group Plc to buy the majority of its private sector Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) operations, the main element of which is the former Intelenet business in India. The...

Singapore’s Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) is working on a business model for Indian states to enable them to compete with South East Asian investment destinations. The ACI, a think tank of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, will...

India’s leading technology venture capital firm IDG Ventures India said Mr. Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, has joined their advisory board as a Senior Advisor. Speaking on this occasion, Sudhir Sethi, Founder & Chairman of IDG Ventures India...

Singapore's Government Investment Corporation (GIC) and the sovereign wealth fund, Temasek Holdings, have long had faith in India's economy but the city state’s Chinese-family-based businesses have yet to make an impact in the mega Indian market. Temasek is rated among...

Inaugural CEO Roundtable on Manufacturing in ‘New” India: Can Singapore companies benefit from the ‘Make in India’ thrust.  Investors must see India as a part of their global strategy, given the ever increasing domestic demand and expanding exports, a senior...

Singapore’s DBS banking group, which recently soft launched its online and mobile banking in India, now plans to develop digital space in the country and is already in talks with some of the companies on this ambitious project. It has...

India’s "seven horses of energy" electricity sector transformation is gathering pace, with far-reaching ramifications for renewable energy development and the structural decline of seaborne thermal coal, according to a report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)...

Singapore-listed Thakral Corporation Ltd has set up a joint venture via its subsidiary Thakral TCAP with PVAP Pty Ltd of Queensland to develop resort style retirement villages for over 50s living under the brand “Living Gems - A Thakral Joint...

Singapore-listed Thakral Corporation Ltd (TCL) has signed documents establishing a bespoke investment programme called the TCAP Australian Mezzanine Programme with Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Limited, on behalf of its property multi-manager products. Thakral’s subsidiaries, TCAP Investments Limited and Thakral Capital...

A number of new initiatives announced by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi now, with the phased goal of transforming the overall quality of life in the country’s urban centres, have been conceptualised better than his earlier ‘Make in India’ campaign....