Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

(Adds ANZ Group, Carrier, Ganfeng Lithium, Cisco Systems, Papara; Updates Singapore Airlines)

March 5 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1430 GMT on Tuesday:

** Australia's fourth-biggest bank ANZ Group is selling around 298 million shares or 9% stake worth up to $242 million in Malaysian lender AMMB Holdings or AmBank, according to a term sheet seen by Reuters.

** Carrier will sell its Industrial Fire division to Sentinel Capital Partners in a $1.43 billion deal, the company said, pressing ahead with the divestment of non-core assets to focus on heating and cooling equipment businesses.

** Ganfeng Lithium said it plans to buy a stake of at least 14.8% in a subsidiary of Lithium Americas Argentina Corp, as China's leading lithium producer ramps up its efforts to secure resources.

** Cisco Systems is set to secure unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $28 billion bid for cybersecurity firm Splunk, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said.

** Turkish fintech company Papara has signed an agreement to purchase T-bank (Turkland Bank), from its 50-50 shareholders Lebanese Bankmed SAL and Jordanian Arab Bank PLC, Papara said.

** Singapore's competition watchdog said it has approved the merger between Tata Group-owned Air India and sister airline Vistara, a joint venture between Tata and Singapore Airlines , subject to certain conditions.

** U.S.-based communications equipment firm Viavi Solutions Inc has agreed to buy British telecommunications testing firm Spirent Communications for about 1.01 billion pounds ($1.28 billion), the companies said.

** Portuguese industrial group Bondalti has launched a takeover bid worth 329 million euros ($357 million) for all shares of Barcelona-based chemical company Ercros, it said in a filing to Spanish stock market supervisor CNMV.

** Norsk Hydro's renewable energy unit Hydro Rein has agreed with Swedish renewables developer IOWN Energy to buy an 80% stake in a 2.4 gigawatt portfolio of planned wind power projects in Sweden and Norway, it said.

** French media group Vivendi's Canal+ has raised its offer to buy all the shares of South Africa's MultiChoice that it does not already own, the companies said.

** Vitol-backed energy storage company VTTI is close to acquiring a majority stake in Italy's biggest liquefied natural gas import terminal from Exxon Mobil and QatarEnergy, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday.

** JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines scrapped their $3.8-billion merger agreement on Monday, with the low-cost carriers saying there was no path forward after a U.S. judge blocked the deal in January on anti-competition concerns.

** The CEO of Brazilian development bank BNDES, Aloizio Mercadante, said on Monday the company can sell its stakes in other companies if an opportunity appears and is a good deal.

** EU antitrust regulators last month temporarily halted their investigation into British Airways owner IAG's 400-million-euro ($434.28 million) bid to buy out Air Europa, according to a European Commission update on its site on Monday.

** A senior Nippon Steel executive told Reuters he is set to meet the United Steelworkers (USW) union chief this month to seek support for acquiring U.S. Steel, expressing confidence the deal can be finalised by the end of September.

** Macy's shares jumped 16% on Monday after investors Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital sweetened their take-private bid over the weekend, valuing the U.S. department store operator at $6.58 billion. (Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Vallari Srivastava in Bengaluru)