Poland said on Friday it had received three offers for its stake in the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

Citigroup Inc said on Thursday it plans to raise up to $100 million through selling shares of its Primerica Inc life insurance unit, as the financial colossus looks to shed assets outside its main banking business.

In Asia lately, it pays to be a seller -- even if you're a company under pressure to offload an asset or two.

Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co Ltd and Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc said they plan to merge, creating Japan's largest trust bank with scale to better compete in a crowded asset management industry.

An ache has hit the belly of investors who feasted on initial public offerings in Asia, in a sign the primary equity window that saw a big revival two quarters ago is beginning to quickly shut.

Monex Group Inc, Japan's No. 3 online broker, will buy the securities unit of Orix Corp for about $246 million in stock, in a deal that will create the country's second-largest online broker.

Private equity firm Blackstone Group is talking to lenders about cutting up to $5 billion of debt held by its Hilton Hotels chain, a source familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.

Bank of New York Mellon Corp sees more acquisition opportunities in Europe than in Asia, the head of the world's largest custodian of financial assets said on Tuesday.

Private equity firms often fret that it is hard to source deals in Japan because companies there loathe making big restructuring moves.

A bid for J Sainsbury Plc may not be imminent, but its property assets, growth plans and uncertainty over the intentions of its top investor could keep it a focus of speculation, and its stock in demand.

China Real Estate Information Corp about $216 million on Thursday with an initial public offering of American Depositary Receipts that priced within expectations.

Chinese developer Excellence Real Estate Group Ltd plans to raise up to $1 billion from a Hong Kong initial public offering, according to a term sheet obtained by Reuters on Friday, as it joins the ranks of real estate firms queuing to cash in on the country's property boom.

Travel reservations giant Amadeus has hired a trio of banks as global bookrunners for a planned initial public offering (IPO) next year, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

Dry shipper Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd has filed plans to take a recently formed subsidiary public in an offering of up to $230 million.

Exchange operator Nasdaq OMX said on Wednesday it will launch a third trading venue that caters to listings that fall below the standards of its main Nasdaq Stock Market and other markets.

Private equity houses, including U.S. firms Blackstone and KKR, are showing greater flexibility in approaching target assets as they face more pressure to deploy their capital, an M&A banker said.

Las Vegas Sands, which is seeking to raise up to $2.5 billion by listing its Macau assets on the Hong Kong stock exchange, could launch its initial public offering by late November, the South China Morning Post reported on Wednesday.

Giant buyout funds are likely a thing of the past, and new cash raised will be for medium-sized, specialist funds, a top executive of British private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd said on Wednesday.

Jean-Francois Theodore, deputy chief executive of NYSE Euronext, said on Monday he wanted to double the number of companies quoted on Alternext, the exchange for small- and mid-sized companies, in the next 18 months.