RBS sweetens offer for ABN Amro
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An RBS-led group sweetens its bid for Dutch lender ABN Amro, boosting the amount of cash it has offered.
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Barclays Bank  is confident  of winning the bid battle for Dutch bank ABN AMRO NV  , a senior Barclays executive said on Tuesday.
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A consortium led by Royal Bank  of Scotland  has launched a 71.1 billion euro ($95.9  billion) bid for Dutch group ABN AMRO, trumping Britain&#39;s  Barclays in a battle for the world&#39;s biggest bank takeover.
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Barclays  has drawn up contingency plans for a big cash sweetener to strengthen its all-share offer for Dutch bank ABN AMRO , the Financial Times said on Wednesday.
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Barclays  has drawn up  contingency plans for a big cash sweetener to strengthen its  all-share offer for Dutch bank ABN AMRO , the Financial  Times reported on Wednesday.
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Business & money: Shares jump more than 12% after embattled bank reveals takeover offers.
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European shares opened firmer on  Thursday led by ABN AMRO as investors applauded the savings the  Dutch broker will make from cutting jobs.
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A trio of banks led by Royal Bank of Scotland  will probably on Tuesday make a formal takeover offer for Dutch bank ABN AMRO , said sources familiar with the matter on Friday.
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NYSE Euronext has joined Dutch and British financial authorities in examining trading patterns of ABN Amroâs shares and American depositary receipts just before the multibillion-dollar bidding war over ABN became public, the bank said. âWe have received a request from the NYSE regarding transactions ahead of the announcement of our merger talks with Barclays,â a spokesman, Neil Moorhouse, said, reading a statement. He said ABN was cooperating with the investigation, but could not comment on whether there was any reason to suspect insider trading. The Supreme Court in the Netherlands is expected to make a ruling Friday in the fight between Barclays and a consortium of banks led by the Royal Bank of Scotland to buy ABN Amro for about 71 billion euros ($97.6 billion).
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A trio of banks led by Royal Bank of  Scotland Group  plans to present a new, nearly all cash  bid for Dutch bank ABN AMRO Holding NV  as early as  Monday, according to two media reports on Sunday.
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ABN AMRO , which received two revised offers from rival bidders Barclays  and a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland , said on Monday that it will evaluate both offers in "a fair and transparent manner."
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Barclays said on Thursday that it was considering the introduction of a cash element to its all-shares offer for Dutch bank ABN Amro.
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A European banking consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland launched Friday a formal takeover bid for Dutch lender ABN Amro worth 71.1 billion euros (98.2 billion dollars).
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Dutch bank ABN AMRO  posted a 7.6 percent rise in its annual net profit on Thursday, helped by the purchase of Italian bank Antonveneta and the sale of parts of its business, and announced a share buyback.
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AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - A consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland unveiled a 71.1 billion euro ($95.6 billion) bid for ABN AMRO that included its disputed U.S. bank and a higher cash component than indicated.
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Business & money: UK-based bank confirms Â£9bn from the governments of China and Singapore will help it finance an improved takeover offer for Dutch rival ABN Amro.
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Barclays called in two state-backed Asian financial powerhouses on Monday to strengthen its offer for ABN Amro amid a European bidding battle for the Dutch bank worth nearly 100 billion dollars.