Investment & Financing
EQT agrees to acquire Cleanaway, a leading Australian integrated waste management and resource recovery platform
* EQT enters into definitive agreements to acquire 100% of the shares in Cleanaway through a scheme of arrangement for A$3.095 cash per share less the cash amount of any dividends (including any special dividend) or other distributions declared or paid1 * The Cleanaway Board unanimously recom...
SALMON SECURES $140 MILLION (PHP 8.8 BILLION) TO DOUBLE DOWN ON THE GROWTH OPPORTUNITY IN THE PHILIPPINES
$90 million financing committed by Spice Expeditions, WashU and Moore and $50 million of bond proceeds to fund the scaling of profitable lending and launches of new products MANILA, Philippines, Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Salmon Group, a technology-driven banking and lending platform in the P...
FinDev Canada provides a USD 60 million loan to Muangthai Capital to advance gender equality and private sector investment in Thailand
BANGKOK, Oct. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Honourable Randeep Sarai, Secretary of State (International Development) on behalf of Canada's bilateral development finance institution, FinDev Canada, announces the signing of a USD 60 million loan to Muangthai Capital (MTC), a leading non-bank financi...
Vale Base Metals completes transaction to establish new ownership of Thompson Mine Complex
Transaction marks new chapter for Thompson, backed by US$200 million (approximately CAD$280 million) in new investment VBM retains 18.9% minority interest and multi-year offtake agreement, with Exiro Nickel taking over as operator of Thompson TORONTO, Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Vale Base Meta...
CSL Group Acquires SIMPL Wireless to Bring Critical Connectivity® to North America
Adding multi-carrier eSIM, a unified connectivity management platform and Tier-1 US carrier partnerships to CSL's global IoT connectivity platform LONDON and DULUTH, Ga., Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CSL Group, the leading global provider of Critical Connectivity®, has acquired SIMPL Wireless, t...
NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS Acquires All Shares of Metro Supply Chain Group
TOKYO, Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS, INC. ("NX Group") acquired all shares of Metro Supply Chain Group Inc. ("Metro Supply Chain Group"), a Canada-based logistics company, on October 1, 2026, holding a town hall meeting for employees and a closing ceremony in Montreal, Ca...
FF EAI Robotics (FFR) and FF Jointly Launch FF Nova, First Embodied AI Humanoid Robot Priced Below $2,500 in U.S., FF Nova Mini, Physical AI Spark Program Curriculum, Nova Reinforcement Learning Developer Program and Developer Community Recruitment
* FF Nova, America's first humanoid robot priced below $2,500. It is an entry-level EAI humanoid robot and a Physical AI lab in a backpack. Designed for developers and the education ecosystem, Nova enables development anytime, anywhere. It brings together reinforcement learning, autonomous inte...
OrbiMed Raises $3 Billion Across Global and Asia Private Equity Funds
NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- OrbiMed
LRQA and K-Frontiers strengthen local inspection capabilities in Malaysia through strategic partnership
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- LRQA, a leading global assurance partner, has strengthened its presence in Malaysia through a strategic partnership with K-Frontiers Sdn Bhd, an established Malaysian service provider to the oil and gas industry. Following completion of the t...
Qatar Airways Group Signs Inaugural Japanese Financing Agreement with Partners HSBC and JP Lease
The airline's debut financing in Japan, structured as a Japanese Operating Lease with Call Option, covers three Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft DOHA, Qatar, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Qatar Airways Group has marked a major milestone in aircraft financing with the signing of its inaugural Jap...
Sonilo Raises $11M to Build the AI-Native Audio Stack for Video
Founded by veterans of TikTok's AI and music teams, Sonilo is developing
proprietaryAI-native music and sound models that adapt to the pacing, emotion
and story of each video
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonilo
Uzbekistan Hospitality Group TEG Completes U.S. Business Combination
Historic milestone positions TEG to capitalize on Uzbekistan's rapidly expanding tourism market and execute its growth pipeline NEW YORK, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- TEG SPV LLC ("TEG"), a leading Uzbekistan-based, integrated hospitality, tourism and events business, today announced the succes...
Oracle NetSuite Announces Launch of AI-first QuickStart: NYSE Content Update
NYSE issues a pre-market daily advisory direct from the trading floor. NEW YORK, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides a daily pre-market update directly from the NYSE Trading Floor. Access today's NYSE Pre-market update for market insights before trading begin...
Continuity Biosciences Awarded $9.6 Million Grant to Advance Ultra-Long-Acting Implant for HIV Prevention
Funding supports development of a subcutaneous implant designed to deliver HIV prevention medicine for multiple years from a single placement, advancing toward an IND submission and initiation of a first-in-human Phase 1 study BRADENTON, Fla. and SEATTLE, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuity ...
FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Signs Definitive Agreements to Combine FFAI's Full Robotics Business at About $200 Million and $2.246 Per Share, an Approximate 50 Percent Premium; Becoming the First U.S.-Listed Humanoid and Bionic EAI Robotics Pure Play
* FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Inc. (NASDAQ: FFR) (formerly AIxCrypto Holdings, Inc. and AIXC) and Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (NASDAQ: FFAI) ("FFAI") signed definitive agreements on October 12, 2026, for FFR to acquire FFAI's robotics assets and business in an all-stock transaction. ...
3C Merges with Datalec to Create US$400M+ Revenue Liquid Cooling and Data Centre Services Platform
The combination brings together deep expertise in liquid cooling, mechanical and electrical (M&E) engineering, ODM manufacturing, connectivity and facilities management (FM), giving data centre operators worldwide a single partner from design through to operation. LONDON, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswi...
DayOne Upsizes Malaysia Financing to US$7.2 Billion; Total Billings Surpass 1GW and Bookings Reach 2.3GW
* Malaysia senior secured syndicated term financing upsized to approximately US$7.2 billion in total for Johor platform * 1GW of IT Power Capacity now generating income under long-term customer contracts; 2.3GW of Bookings[1,2] committed by customers and Reservations[3] of 1.1GW * Showcasin...
Taisei Corporation, TIER IV, and Taisei Rotec Partner to Advance Autoflow Road Deployment through a Japanese Government Project
Testing Multi-Vehicle Autonomous Operations and System Optimization in Purpose-Built Logistics Lanes TOKYO, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Taisei Corporation, TIER IV, Inc. (TIER IV), and Taisei Rotec Corporation have been selected by Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Touris...
Toptal Launches ExpertCrowd to Train AI with Vetted Domain Experts, Releases Frontier SWE Benchmark
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Toptal
Orbius Unveils New Edge Cloud Solution Through Its StarEDGE Platform to Unlock AI Anywhere
* For the first time, Orbius customers can deploy a single, fully integrated stack through the StarEDGE platform: Multi-LEO satellite connectivity paired with Armada's modular data centers, bringing edge computing and artificial intelligence to remote operations worldwide FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.,...
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