The remaining assets of Wirecard’s core European business have been sold off to Spanish lender Banco Santander, following an “intense investor process” during the insolvency proceedings of the collapsed fintech firm. Santander will acquire the assets of Wirecard’s...
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp will this week vie with German media group Bertelsmann to buy Simon & Schuster in an auction that has become a battle for scale between two of the world’s biggest book publishers. ViacomCBS is expecting final bids for its Simon &...
The Co-operative Bank said it had received a takeover approach from an unidentified private equity bidder, the latest in a flurry of potential deals in the struggling European financial sector. The UK lender announced on Tuesday that it had received a non-binding...
Epidemic Sound AB is considering a sale or initial public offering that could value the Swedish music licensing business at more than 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion), according to people familiar with the matter. The company is working with an adviser to explore...
Russian ecommerce group Ozon will file paperwork on Tuesday to go public in the US at a valuation of $4.6bn to $5.6bn, according to two people familiar with the plans. Ozon is seeking to raise between $750m and $1bn from the initial public offering on the Nasdaq...
