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  • India's plan to float stakes in some of its biggest companies is an impressive and ambitious project. But last week's NMDC sale showed the government remains too focused on price.
  • If at first you don’t succeed… India’s efforts to put a bigger stake in its leading state-owned companies into public hands were always going to be steeped in politics. Pressure on the fiscal budget, coupled with resistance to anything that resembles an increase in taxes mean that the government is under intense pressure to maximise returns from its holdings. This is no easy process.
  • I can think of more than a few Asian equities bankers who are hoping that Prudential’s $35bn move for AIA comes to nothing.
  • It must be tempting for Indian officials to link the success of this week’s Rural Electrification Corp follow-on offering to the structure they designed for the deal. It certainly worked better than a similar deal a couple of weeks earlier for NTPC.
  • Bharti Airtel’s $10.7bn takeover of the African assets of Zain is hardly the surprise of the century. The financing that goes with it, however, will be a welcome boost for a deal-starved Asian loan market.
  • Bharti Airtel’s $10.7bn takeover of the African assets of Zain is hardly the surprise of the century. The Indian telecoms company has been forthright about its ambitions to gain a foothold in the continent, and likewise Zain has made no secret of its desire to sell.