Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC.SI), Singapore’s second-largest bank by assets, has initiated a full buyout of Great Eastern Holdings (GELA.SI), a leading regional insurer. The move includes plans to delist Great Eastern from the Singapore Exchange (SGX), signaling a significant restructuring of financial operations within the OCBC Group and a broader shift in the Southeast Asian insurance landscape.

American private equity firm KKR has announced a definitive agreement to acquire German IT services provider Datagroup, further cementing its interest in Europe’s digital infrastructure sector. The deal represents another addition to KKR’s growing portfolio of technology and infrastructure assets and underscores continued investor appetite for digital transformation enablers in key European markets.