The latest funding round saw Love Home Swap receives GBP1.025 million funding. Home swap holiday service Love Home Swap had announced it had raised another GBP1.

Twitch's Series C investment round garnered USD20 million. The world's foremost video platform and community for online gamers, Twitch, recently announced a Series C USD20 million investment.

Buyout firm Northstar Group, with its TPG backing, had opened a fund to surpass its previous high of USD820 million.

A USD15 million investment was recently announced by Clairvest to be received by Cieslok Media. The Clairvest Group had announced that it represented the group in its USD15 million investment in Cieslok Media, which was formerly known as Titan Outdoor Canada Company.

Chinese shoemaker Daphne International's sales performance lead to a sluggish stock performance on the bourse.

Mick Davis and Trevor Reid, former executives of Xstrata form X2 Partners to establish X2 Resources with the Noble Group and TPG.

According to HDFC Asset Management Co CEO Prashant Jain, the nation had already seen the worst of capital outflows.

US and Japanese law firms provide legal assistance to the acquisition of Panasonic Healthcare by KKR & Co.

By providing capital during the 2008 crisis, Berkshire Hathaway now reaps the profits in terms of Goldman Sachs stock.

According to a statement from NZ Finance Minister Bill English, nearly half of the IPO shares in Meridian Energy was already spoken for by New Zealand brokers.

Telecom Italia, a company considered strategic in the Italian political spectrum, is undergoing a change in leadership.

The large volume IPO companies have helped the European IPO boom. The cheap valuations and the strengthening economies were the main factors that put investments to full work in Europe, resulting in a sixfold volume increase in the third quarter for initial public offers in the region.

In a move to provide a tax gain as well as capital gain, AXA spins off AXA PE, ceding majority control to an employee ownership group.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Mark Cuban of insider trading. Billionaire Mark Cuban is being hauled to court for insider trading.

Al-Futtain formalizes its agreement with the Oman Tourism Development Company and the Omani National Investment Funds Company for the new mall in Muscat.

Axis MF, the fund management firm backed by Axis bank, is projecting to be in the black for the year because of its diversified offers.

The new programs of RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan have resulted in higher investment rate in the Indian equity markets.

The new deadline is now at October 31 for the acquisition of Vivendi's shareholdings in Maroc Telecom by Etisalat.

In a bid to ease the pressure on its public finances, Oman is set to issue an international bond as well as a sovereign bond next year.

CEO resignation would not deter the merger of the two Omani banks. In an announcement, Bank Dhofar's CEO Anthony Mahoney had resigned from the bank.

The escalator at Harrods would undergo a major facelift and renovation. Qatar's newly acquired luxury London department store, Harrod's, had laid out plans to undertake a multi-million renovation as part of the investment from the Gulf state in the world renowned brand.

Ooredoo, the Qatari telecommunications company, had entered into a partnership with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women to provide assistance to businesswomen.

The Shanghai free trade zone is a testing ground for finance and economic policy in China. Shanghai's free trade zone would have Citigroup Inc and Bank of China Ltd as participants in the eleven square mile experiment.

Nufarm is asking for openness from Aussie farmers as foreign investors would increase competition with the industry.

After more than dismal last quarter financial reports, BlackBerry is contemplating its exit from the smartphone market.

Critics say the UK Prime Minister's Home to Buy scheme would only push home prices higher than expected.

Due to the loss of support from the largest shareholders of Telecom Italia, CEO Franco Bernabe is planning to submit his resignation on October 3.

Videocon Group Chairman Venugopal Dhoot confirmed that its West Bengali project would commence by the end of 2013.

JPMorgan's CEO met with the US Attorney General to finalize a settlement on the mortgage backed securities fraud investigations.

Kaufhof CEO Olaf Koch, in an interview, said the company is doing well and not considering mergers. Kaufhof, the German department store chain, is doing well but its owner Metro is planning to sell it.