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Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

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May 10 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1950 GMT on Friday:

** Home Credit, the international consumer finance group of Czech investment firm PPF, will sell its business in India to a group of investors led by TVS Holdings for 80 million euros ($86.14 million), the companies said.

** Canada's Canacol Energy has not had any discussion with Colombia's majority state-owned oil company, Ecopetrol, regarding a transaction over its gas assets in the Andean country, Chief Executive Charle Gamba said.

** British Airways owner IAG said it is in talks with other airlines about ceding routes in order to address EU regulators' concerns that its bid for Air Europa may reduce competition and lead to price increases.

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** United Bankshares has agreed to buy smaller rival Piedmont Bancorp in a deal valued at about $267 million, the lenders said, amid growing consolidation in the U.S. regional banking industry.

** Abu Dhabi sovereign investor Mubadala Capital's $3 billion bid for New York-based Fortress Investment Group has cleared a significant U.S. regulatory hurdle after the parties agreed to important concessions, the Financial Times reported.

** Sabadell CEO César González-Bueno was in London on Thursday meeting with analysts to champion his bank's success when news landed that rival BBVA was going hostile with its 12.23 billion-euro ($13.2 billion) takeover offer.

** Mining giant Rio Tinto had considered an offer for British miner Anglo American, which is now BHP Group's $39 billion takeover target, the Australian Financial Review reported .

** Singapore's second-largest bank Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) posted a better-than-expected 5% rise in first-quarter profit and made a S$1.4 billion ($1.04 billion) offer to take its insurer arm Great Eastern private.

** A federal judge on Thursday indicated a willingness to compel Elon Musk to testify again in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter. (Compiled by Rajarshi Roy, Priyanka.G and Arasu Kannagi Basil in Bengaluru)