Investment market digest for the week
Key news of the M&A market and macroeconomics from 3 to 7 April
Investments and the M&A market
- Ukraine is negotiating the creation of a Trust Fund to insure investors' risks;
- President Zelensky urges businesses to actively invest in Ukraine at a meeting with a US delegation;
- More than $300 million were raised through the UNITED24 platform in 11 months of its operation;
- NBU: Ukraine's international reserves up 10% in March, to $31.9 bln;
- Ukraine receives first tranche of $2.7bn from new IMF programme – Minister of Finance;
- German Vice Chancellor visits Ukraine with business delegation;
- Ukraine needs $1.5 bln for priority demining of agricultural land – EBA;
- Ukrtatnafta will additionally transfer to the budget more than half a billion hryvnias in taxes unpaid by its former owners;
- UkrGasVydobuvannya drilled a well at a depleted field with a record flow rate of 460 thousand cubic metres per day – Naftogaz;
- Ukrainian Energy Machines refused to establish branches in Lviv and Zakarpattia;
- Quartzsolut LLC may become the new owner of the Transcarpathian Helicopter Production Association;
- Only one in ten bank asset sales auctions in March was successful, according to the DGF;
- The DGF put up for sale the assets of 9 banks for a total of about 2.1 billion UAH;
- The Guarantee Fund has re-auctioned the rights to claim a loan from a Cherkasy chemical company to IR Bank;
World
- Investors plan to invest another $1.5 trillion in the safest money funds – Bloomberg;
- Saudi Arabia plans to invest $38 billion in the development of the gaming industry;
- UFC is going to merge with WWE into a company worth $21 billion;
- French L'Oreal plans to buy Australian Aesop for $2.53 billion;
- Rathbones plans to acquire rival asset manager Investec UK Wealth Unit for £839 million;
- France's TotalEnergies plans to invest $10 billion in Iraq's oil and gas industry;
- Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual has issued a dollar stablecoin BTG Dol;
- Saudi Arabia plans to invest $38 billion in the development of the gaming industry;
- Amazon's acquisition of iRobot for $1.7 billion attracted the attention of the UK Competition and Markets Authority;
- Venture fund Bitkraft has raised about $220.6 million for its second "token" fund;
- The market capitalisation of the Tether stablecoin has increased by 12% over the past four weeks.
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