Read on to find out the winners of FA's Dealmaker Poll 2025.

The Asia-based travel experience platform revealed adjusted EBITDA profits for the first time in its public filing to the SEC.

India’s largest digital brokerage Groww has opened subscriptions for its $754m IPO, marking one of the biggest listings of 2025. The Bengaluru-based firm secured strong anchor demand from top sovereign and institutional investors including GIC, ADIA and Norway’s wealth fund.

Debt issuance was capped at $15bn the previous year.

CEO Darren Wang described the process to FA as “difficult” and said that reaching out to more US-based private investors, while expanding globally, is the next step.

The $1.3bn raise from the electronics giant and $1.75bn IPO from Tata Group's financial services arm attracted strong demand from institutional investors. Citi is seeing its largest Indian IPO pipeline on record.

Adam Zhang, managing director of Collabrium Partners, shares his views with FA on how Chinese companies are changing their approach to cross-border M&A, including finding opportunities in Southeast Asia and in technology.

The HK$155 a share offer is a 33% premium over Hang Seng's 30-day average closing price; HSBC already owns 63% of the HKEX-listed bank. Hang Seng's after tax profits declined 30% in H1 2025. HSBC has paused buybacks.

The division of the Swiss company has a workforce of approximately 7,000 and had revenues of $2.3bn in 2024; SoftBank is looking to fuse artificial super intelligence and robotics.

The Australian regulator has cited four proceedings at the bank spanning misconduct across ANZ's institutional and retail divisions, including over the management of a A$14bn government bond issue; ANZ, which is cutting 3,500 jobs, has admitted to "unconscionable conduct" and apologised.