Podcast: M&A moves in financial services; flurry of VC deals

There were some big-ticket transactions this week as mortgage lender HDFC agreed to acquire a 51.2% stake in Apollo Munich Health Insurance and Piramal Enterprises sold its 10% stake in Shriram Transport Finance.

Separately, Sundaram Finance agreed to buy BNP Paribas’s 49.9% stake in their housing finance joint venture while Canara Bank revived plans to exit mortgage lender Can Fin Homes.

Venture capital firms were also in the spotlight, with Sequoia Capital and Nexus Venture Partners-backed startups raising large sums of money.

Tune in to the Investor Bulletin to find out what else made headlines this week.