PRESS DIGEST- Financial Times - Dec 21

- UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt will sign a financial services deal with Switzerland, claiming it will make it easier for financial firms and wealthy individuals in the two markets to do business with each other. - Warburg Pincus has teamed up with former Credit Suisse chair Antonio Horta-Osorio on a 6 billion-plus euros ($6.57 billion) bid by the US private equity firm for Altice's Portuguese telecoms assets, according to people familiar with the matter.

The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Headlines

- Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount CEOs hold exploratory merger talks - Orsted to press ahead with world's largest offshore wind farm in North Sea

- UK to sign post-Brexit financial services deal with Switzerland - Warburg Pincus teams up with Horta-Osorio on 6 bln euros bid for telecoms assets

Overview - Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount Global are in early talks to merge, in a media deal that would combine the owner of HBO and CNN with the studio behind the Mission Impossible films and CBS News.

- Orsted is to press ahead with developing the world's largest offshore wind farm in the North Sea after the UK increased financial support for the sector in a big boost for the Danish group after a string of setbacks. - UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt will sign a financial services deal with Switzerland, claiming it will make it easier for financial firms and wealthy individuals in the two markets to do business with each other.

- Warburg Pincus has teamed up with former Credit Suisse chair Antonio Horta-Osorio on a 6 billion-plus euros ($6.57 billion) bid by the US private equity firm for Altice's Portuguese telecoms assets, according to people familiar with the matter. ($1 = 0.9139 euros) (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)

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