Jan 21 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1030 GMT on Friday:
** Singapore Telecommunications , Southeast Asia's largest telecoms firm, and ride hailing-to-payments firm Grab Holdings Ltd , have each bought a 16.3% stake in PT Bank Fama International to pursue banking opportunities in Indonesia.
** Piraeus Bank has agreed with investment firm Varde Partners to buy its controlling stake in Trastor Real Estate Investment Company for about 98 million euros ($111.04 million), the bank said.
** Former Formula One team boss Eddie Jordan has withdrawn from making a potential offer to buy British gambling software maker Playtech , a company related to the Irish businessman said.
** Japan's biggest steelmaker Nippon Steel Corp will buy two electric arc furnace steelmakers in Thailand in a deal worth up to $763 million, it said, as it seeks to cut its reliance on blast furnaces that use coking coal and emit carbon dioxide.
(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Nathan Gomes in Bengaluru)
((nathan.gomes@thomsonreuters.com))
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