Another week started without any big new M&A deals, as companies and their big investors stew on the just completed earnings season before making any major moves.
Bankers have already turned their minds to next week, thinking their clients should be well and truly done with results and roadshows and ready to get moving.
It was a similar story in equity capital markets, with less than $6 billion in Australian shares traded on Monday. Fund managers are also not really in the mood to trade.
In Street Talk tonight, we have picked up on some fresh activity in the technology sector.
Homegrown cloud transformation and consulting group Versent Pty Ltd has called in investment banking bigwig Goldman Sachs to help it find a deep-pocketed new backer.
iON Holdings Limited, which owns four second-tier energy retailers operating in the National Energy Market, is doing the rounds at debt investors as it tries to stitch up a capital raising.
Mid-market private equity investor Corner Capital has bought a minority stake in Geelong pre-mixed concrete business Cubic Mini Mix, in its first investment.
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