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Deals

Indian conglomerate L&T set to acquire tech firm Mindtree for $2.35b

Brookfield buys hotels, property from India’s Hotel Leela Venture for $576m

US fintech FIS to buy Worldpay for $35b in biggest-ever payments deal

Satellite startup OneWeb raises $1.25b in Japan’s SoftBank-led round

Private Equity

Tougher times ahead for PE in Asia Pacific, warns Bain & Co report

Mekong-focused Belt Road Capital invests $5m in Cambodia’s Groupin

Warburg Pincus ploughs $100m into China’s B2B trading platform Yijiupi

Global private equity players actively acquiring Chinese commercial property

Venture Capital

China’s CreditEase backs $125m Series B for European insurtech startup wefox

Singapore’s auto marketplace Carro closes extended $90m Series B round

Mark Wahlberg, FOD Capital back Australian fitness franchise F45

Australian training platform GO1 raises $30m Series B led by Microsoft venture arm M12

Singapore knowledge sharing startup Tigerhall bags $1.8m seed funding

Singapore Digest: SC Ventures launches Fintech Bridge; MoolahGo raises funds

Cleric-led Indonesian fintech firm says no to VC money as it takes on big boys

LINE allocates $20m for Thai startup investments

PH insurtech startup Saphron raises $1m in seed funding

India: PoS machine-maker Mswipe raises $32m from existing investors

IPOs & Markets

Shanghai’s new Nasdaq-style tech board to accept listing applications from Monday

Lyft seeks to raise up to $2.1b at near $20b valuation in biggest US IPO

Chinese TechCrunch rival 36Kr seeks to raise $100m in US IPO

India: Embassy REIT share sale faces last-minute hurdle

Mobile & Telco

Singapore’s Singtel, GIC to buy stock worth $1.23b in Indian telco Bharti Airtel

Xiaomi ups India play, injects $507m in largest investment this year

Singtel partners with NETSTARS to expand mobile wallet in Japan

India: Bharti Airtel to raise $4.5b to pare debt, expand its network

Real Estate

Singapore developer Oxley Holdings gets $758m offer for Chevron House

CapitaLand REIT said to pursue $1.1b Duo office and retail assets

With rising vacancy rates, China’s co-work spaces eye services amid funding crunch

Self-storage provider RedBox acquires three properties in HK

Indian agritech startup DeHaat raises $4.35m led by Omnivore

Vietnam’s Vntrip secures top-up financing ahead of Series C round

Indian hospitality unicorn OYO eyes venture debt route for fresh funding

Uber in talks with SoftBank, others for $1b investment in self-driving unit

Indian vehicle sharing startup Drivezy in talks to raise $100m financing

SoftBank to plough $1.6b more into loss-making Didi Chuxing, says Son

Q & A

Cashless payment in Vietnam could grow to 50% in three years: MoMo CEO

Lack of country-specific expertise a gap in SE Asia's VC ecosystem, says Intudo's Chan

Aquaculture, palm oil ripe for disruption in Asia, says Trendlines’ Sarai Kemp

SoftBank Vision Fund has already invested $65-70b, says Masayoshi Son

Still plenty of room to play in SEA's digital economy, says Quest Ventures' Tan

Opinion

Uber is raising another $1b and it may have little to do with self-driving

It's time Meituan focused on arresting losses and not just beating revenue guidance

Analysts unfazed by Singtel's move to give up half its shares in Airtel rights issue

Why take rate metric may not be a clean evaluation of Lyft's profit potential?

Private equity's gender bias manifests itself in different forms

People

People Digest: Manulife Real Estate appoints Asia MD; DBS beefs up team

Ace entrepreneurs in India make comebacks in familiar territory

Indian PE firm ChrysCapital rejigs top deck, ropes in Mariwala as advisor

People Digest: Pomelo names new CFO; UOB augments SG digital team

Tiger Global's PE chief Lee Fixel to leave firm after 13 years

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