Vivriti Capital Pvt. Ltd., one of India’s biggest marketplaces for debt-financing products, intends to raise about $200 million this year to support its growth plans, a senior company executive said Tuesday. The financial-technology company, backed by Chicago-based Creation Investments Capital Management LLC, aims to raise nearly a third of that amount through the issuance of new equity shares in the second half of the fiscal year that ends in March 2020. The remainder will be raised from...

Deutsche Bank DB -0.09% said Saturday that it is acting on its own to buy bonds of Noble Group Ltd. CGP -1.71% , days before a crucial shareholder vote on a $3.5 billion restructuring of the Singapore-listed commodity trader. The confirmation comes a day after The Wall Street Journal reported the bank’s unexpected offer to buy the bonds. It wasn’t clear on Friday if Deutsche Bank was acting on behalf of another company or for itself, as banks typically handle bond tenders like this for...

U.S. stocks edged higher in early trading Wednesday, recouping some of the market's losses from a day earlier. Technology and health care companies accounted for much of the gains. Financials stocks declined the most after some big banks reported hefty quarterly losses. KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 7 points, or 0.3 percent, to 2,784 as of 10:42 a.m. Eastern Time. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 95 points, or 0.4 percent, to 25,889. The Nasdaq added 17 points, or...

The “need is there” to use blockchain technology to track the movement of cattle, cattle payment and ownership, Don Close, animal protein analyst with Rabobank, says in interview at co. event in N.Y. Overall, there’s “incredible potential” in agricultural commodity sales, both in U.S. and globally “They are using blockchain in wheat merchandising in Australia and a lot of the attention has been given to that development because if it’s successful in wheat trade there, there will be interest...