Sept 20 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were
reported by 0930 GMT on Friday:
** Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International will exit the Belarusian market with
the sale of Priorbank JSC, it said, announcing an agreement with Soven 1 Holding Limited, which
will buy the bank's 88% stake in the business.
** Taiwan's CTBC has dropped its bid to acquire rival Shin Kong, the
financial conglomerate said, citing objections from regulators.
** U.S. IT communications specialist Viavi Solutions is considering whether it could make
another bid for telecoms testing group Spirent Communications if a takeover by its rival
Keysight Technologies fails, sources familiar with the matter said.
** Lottomatica shareholder Gamma Intermediate completed the sale of a 6% stake in
the group at a price of 11.10 euros per share ($12.39) through an accelerated bookbuilding
launched late on Thursday, the Italian betting firm said.
** French bank Societe Generale said it had reached a deal with Atlantic
Financial Group for the sale of a 57.93% stake in its Guinean unit.
(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Ananta Agarwal in Bengaluru)