Capital Market

Dollar General to go hostile with $9.1 billion Family Dollar bid: sources

U.S. retailer Dollar General Corp (DG.N) is preparing to go hostile as soon as this week in its bid to buy rival Family Dollar Stores (FDO.N), taking its $9.1 billion offer directly to shareholders after being spurned twice by its smaller rival, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.  Dollar General […]

AMCON shortlists seven potential buyers for Mainstreet Bank

The advisers of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria have reduced the 23 investors lining up to buy Mainstreet Bank to just seven, with the bad assets manager hoping to name the successful buyer on October 31. The successful buyer of Enterprise Bank, one of the three nationalised banks created […]

IOSCO updates survey on commodity derivatives markets supervisory principles

Press Release/IOSCO Sept 09, 2014 The International Organisation of Securities Commissions today issued the Update to Survey on the Principles for the Regulation and Supervision of Commodity Derivatives Markets, which updates its 2012 review of the implementation of IOSCO’s principles for commodity derivatives markets. Consistent with the 2012 review of […]