Is India’s first IPO of a credit card issuer an opportunity with boundless prospects or a victim of arrested development?

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Chris Lane of Sanford C. Bernstein says WeWork can have a bright future if SoftBank overhauls the business plan.

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Since 2010, Thai firms have led or taken part in $83 billion of overseas M&A, including 18 deals of $1 billion or more.

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Startups will be judged by what they are doing rather than what they might accomplish in a starry future.

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The market might take one or two years to see the next batch of SMEs emerge.  

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Fundraising conversations will increasingly be centred around business models and sustainability.

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The warning came as HK-based companies are expected to show the scars of the protests that forced businesses to shut over the next few weeks.

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Startups and investors are pushing for a shift to a “sustainable growth” model.

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The tougher scrutiny could dampen investment flows into the region.

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The comments came in the midst of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s India visit.

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A solid foothold in Indonesia is one of the important prerequisites for overseas expansion.

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Generation Z, or people born in the mid-to-late 90s or later, make up 30% of the population in the archipelago.

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An 80 per cent writedown on The We Co. has delivered some cold hard truths about Son's vulnerability.

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At 24 per cent of Indonesia’s GDP, the country’s logistics costs are among the highest in Southeast Asia.

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Instead of cashing in on the home-confined population, some food delivery apps have suspended operations.

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The opportunely timed sale gives Luckin a war chest to survive the hit to consumption from the epidemic.

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Alibaba can’t be included in the stock connect programme linking Hong Kong with the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges at present.

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CFO Maggie Wu told investors that China's retail and local consumer businesses would be hit hardest.

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Vision Fund head Rajeev Misra is reportedly looking to raise a multi-billion dollar fund to buy listed stocks.

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The Japanese megabank and the Singapore-headquartered superapp get to plug gaps in their businesses.

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Once the price war is over, we can all collaborate, says Blue Bird president director Noni Purnomo.

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NIO counts the likes of Baillie Gifford (a big Tesla investor), Tencent and Temasek among its backers.

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SGInnovate's head of venture investing Hsien-Hui Tong on top deep-tech investment trends in 2020.

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Modi has launched India’s biggest-ever asset sale, a $29 billion privatization drive that would help prop up the economy.

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The Japanese conglomerate plans to spend up to $4.8 billion to purchase as much as 7% of its own shares.

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Probes by the U.S. Justice Department and the SEC have given SoftBank an excuse to go back and renegotiate a deal with The We Company's existing shareholders.

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Eddie Thai, a Partner at 500 Startups, lists out specific tips for surviving in these tough times.

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The cost of protecting against the virus will fall disproportionately on the poor.

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The M&A wave is seen as startups begin to struggle with the virus' impact on their cashflows.

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SoftBank behaves more like a private equity firm than an angel investor: Its capital is really debt, and it likes to invest in rivals and force them to merge.

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What may be happening to the value of a private-equity portfolio in the COVID-19 crisis?

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Overall, if we can learn from history, there is a decent chance startups are in for a rough time ahead.

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SoftBank Group Corp. needs to cut and run on its entire WeWork investment, not just the shares.

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Fire sales of VC fund stakes are most likely to be initiated first by high net worth individuals and some family offices.

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Shares in Keppel DC REIT have recouped most of their March losses.

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The deal is likely to help Jio in its goal of bringing 30 million neighbourhood grocery stores online.

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As the Jiomart platform takes off and increases in scale, there could be interesting possibilities that may emerge.

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"Covid-19 is redefining what uncertainty means," said Sequoia Capital India in its newsletter.

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Investors are betting slower economic growth will spur opportunities for the distressed-assets firm.

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General Motors Co is retreating from more markets outside of the United States and China.

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For Thailand’s oldest banking family, it’s a legacy-defining deal 25 years in the making.

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What we need is actually abundant exit opportunities for startups, not unicorns, writes Beacon VC investment manager Nat Wittayatanaseth.

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Rippledot Capital is said to be the sell-side advisor for the proposed transaction.

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At least six countries have launched money laundering, financial mismanagement and criminal probes into 1MDB dealings.

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The bidding is shaping up as a battle between Dhanin Chearavanont's Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group, Central Group, and beer-and-property magnate Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi's TCC Group.

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BDMS already owns a 25% stake in Bumrungrad Hospital.

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WeWork's SE Asia peers claim to have emerged largely unscathed with big expansion plans for this year.

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If TCC Group wins the bid and the loan is drawn, it would be among the largest corporate financings on record for Thailand.

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Bangkok Bank plans to acquire another Indonesian lender after buying a controlling stake in Indonesian Bank Permata.

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CP Group said it would fund the deal with cash flow from group companies and loans.

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