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Latest SPAC News: VinaCapital weighs Singapore SPAC IPO and Grab slumps more than 20%
Vietnam’s VinaCapital Weighing Singapore SPAC IPO Next Year
VinaCapital, a Vietnamese asset manager, is exploring setting up a blank-check company to list in Singapore next year.
The investment firm is working with an adviser on a potential IPO that could raise as much as S$250 million ($183 million). The company has held discussions with the regulator on the prospective offering.
READSoutheast Asia’s Grab Slumps in U.S. Debut After Record SPAC Deal
Shares in Grab (NASDAQ:GRAB), Southeast Asia’s biggest ride-hailing and delivery firm, slid more than 20% in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday following the company’s record $40 billion merger with a blank-check company.
Grab’s shares rose as much as 21% minutes after the listing before retreating to trade 23% lower at $8.51. The stock closed at $8.75 yesterday.
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At the SPAC of Dawn Happy Friday! SPACInsider has unveiled new presets on SPAC Performance accessible via the Data drop-down to easily sort for the highest and lowest performing active SPACs and de-SPACs. On the de-SPAC side, Vertiv (NYSE:VRT) continues to be well ahead of the pack, logging a 710% return by share price adjusted...
AGBA (NASDAQ:AGBA) stock is up over +90% this morning following a +211% premarket spike on news it has signed a definitive agreement to combine with social streaming video platform Triller. AGBA, the company itself, was formed by the $555 million combination between a SPAC of the same name and TAG Companies, a financial services firm...
At the SPAC of Dawn Since closing its combination with DHC last month, AI customer engagement firm BEN (NASDAQ:BNAI) has rolled out new partnerships with call center and healthcare clients. And, while it faces a fair bit of competition in the chatbot realm, several high-profile institutions have demonstrated that creating one that provides useful services...
Blue Ocean (NASDAQ:BOCN) provided significantly more texture today in the presentation for its $275 million combination with Asian digital media group TNL Mediagene, which it expects to hit profitability in the second half of the year despite a slight shakeup in financing for the transaction. The first big update in the first investor deck is...
At the SPAC of Dawn A brand new market may have just opened up for space de-SPACs as NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced a shift in the agency’s $11 billion program for a mission to return samples from Mars. Rather than rely on the agency’s internal technologies that would be predicted to get a sample...