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According to the IPO filing, Callidus is looking at expanding the number and size of loans it offers in its current business.

The private equity arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System joined with Alberta Investment Management Corp. to buy cinema chain Vue Entertainment Ltd. from Doughty Hanson & Co., in a deal giving Vue an enterprise value of about $1.5-billion.

Instinet estimates its trading system will be ``five to 10 times faster'' than the TSX's. Instinet's system will be able to handle as many as 10,000 order messages a second, [Tal Cohen] said. The TSX doesn't release its numbers, citing competitive reasons. Instinet isn't the first trading system to challenge the TSX's hold on the equity market. Pure Trading, a venture of Canadian Trading and Quotation System Inc., intends to launch its main alternative market in January. Like Instinet, Pure Trading is banking on winning business with a faster computer system and lower prices. ``We actually think that new entrants like us won't create a zero-sum game,'' Cohen said. ``We think there's a ton of interest in Canada right now.''

Russell is part of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, which confirmed in a statement in January that it was exploring a possible sale of the company.

If more than a third of Inco shareholders ignore the recommendation and turn down the Phelps deal in a vote scheduled for Sept. 7, Inco will instead pay only $125 million US and will then be free to make an all-out three-week push for a higher bid before CVRD's offer expires on Sept. 28. Only if another bid for Inco succeeds within the next 12 months would Inco have to pay a further $350 million USto Phelps Dodge. Inco was bound by its agreement with Phelps Dodge to recommend the Phelps Dodge offer unless CVRD made a \"superior\" bid. While many shareholder prefer the all-cash option, Inco's board pointed to the similar per-share values of the two bids and demanded that CVRD raise its offer. Starting friendly negotiations with Inco would require signing confidentiality agreement that comes with a stringent 12-month \"standstill\" clause, said people familiar with the negotiations. That would prevent CVRD from pursuing any bid that didn't have the backing of Inco's board, enabling Inco to hold CVRD ransom for a higher price with the knowledge CVRD could no longer try a hostile bid.

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A lawyer for [William Ackman], who contends that Bank of Nova Scotia was in a conflict of interest, homed in on communications between the bank's merger team advising Sears Holdings and its capital markets team that was responsible for deciding whether to tender Sears Canada shares to the parent's bid. The three days of hearings are scheduled to wrap up today. On Tuesday, the hearings opened with Ackman facing accusations from Sears Holdings' lawyers that he and other dissident shareholders had illegally colluded to block the bid. Ackman refuted the allegations. Pershing Square, Hawkeye Capital and Knott Partners, which collectively own 14.1 per cent of Sears Canada's outstanding shares, threatened legal action to block the transaction, saying Scotiabank's engagement as financial adviser to Sears Holdings, as banker to Sears Canada and as shareholder in the subsidiary created a conflict of interest.

The company is looking at newspaper purchases and a real-estate transaction in New York City, [Gerald Schwartz] said, as well as seeking more acquisitions modelled on its successful investments in airline catering company SkyChefs and electronics manufacturer Celestica Inc. In both of those cases, Onex bought corporate divisions that supplied only their parent companies, and turned them into standalone suppliers with much bigger customer bases. In the newspaper industry, Onex dropped out of a joint bid with Media News Group Inc. for Knight-Ridder Inc. after Media News decided to purchase a smaller group of papers and didn't need Onex's backing. Since, Onex has been reportedly eyeing Philadelphia's two major daily papers. After long avoiding real estate, Onex is now looking to add to its holdings through its recently established Onex Real Estate Partners arm.

The lawsuit, which is seeking class-action status, is a virtual copy of Biovail's own $4.6-billion US suit against hedge fund SAC Capital Management, Banc of America Securities analyst David Maris, research firm Gradient Analytics and others. Biovail alleged that SAC fed information to analysts who then prepared overly negative reports on Biovail, allowing SAC to profit on bets that the stock would fall. Biovail's stock slid through the second half of 2003 as investors fled amid analyst reports recommending the stock be sold, questions about accounting procedures, earnings shortfalls and probes from regulators. From a closing high of $67.75, the stock lost about two-thirds of its value by the end of the year. Biovail shares have never rebounded. Tuesday, they closed down 61 cents at $27.97.

\"It's still an environment conducive for us to do well but perhaps not as conducive as 2005,\" said Yvan Bourdeau, chief executive of BMO Nesbitt Burns, the securities arm of Bank of Montreal. That said, \"it's a business that can change quickly\" and the backlog of mergers and acquisitions and stock sales is healthy, he said. That's led to a crop of bankers exhausted from the hectic pace of 2005's deal-making and looking for healthy bonuses in return. After a similarly hot year, Wall Street investment bankers earned about $21.5 billion US in 2005 bonuses, up 30 per cent from $16.5 billion in 2004, according to an estimate from New York's state comptroller.