Japan's SMFG Bids &#36;29 Billion for UFJ
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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. (8316.T) laid out a &#36;29 billion bid for UFJ Holdings (8307.T) on Tuesday, challenging a rival offer by Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (8306.T) to form the world's biggest bank.
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Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. was under pressure Wednesday to come up with a takeover offer for UFJ Holdings Inc. that would fend off an unexpectedly generous $29 billion rival bid by Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.
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Tokyo-based Shinsei Bank is wrapping up an agreement to buy a consumer credit company from UFJ Holdings, a Japanese banking group that is set to merge with another "Big Four" Japanese financial group.
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US investment banking giant Goldman Sachs has offered to buy stakes in Japan's biggest consumer finance firm Takefuji Corp. for more than 300 billion yen (2.8 billion dollars), a report said.
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A group led by U.S. investment firm Aetos  Capital LLC has outbid Morgan Stanley  and others by  offering 300 billion yen ($2.7 billion) for a roughly 30  percent stake in Japanese property developer Daito Trust  Construction Co (1878.T), a financial source said on Friday.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday said the United Nations will use &#36;30 million in revenue from the U.N. oil-for-food program for Iraq to pay the initial bill for the independent investigation of corruption allegations in the program.
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Tokyo - Japan&#39;s supreme court yesterday cleared the way for UFJ Holdings and Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group to merge by rejecting a bid to halt the deal by Sumitomo Trust &amp; Banking, a court spokesperson said.
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UFJ Holdings Inc. widened its loss forecast to 750 billion yen ($7.3 billion) as it bids to clear bad loans before merging with Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc.
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Japan's Supreme Court on Monday approved merger talks between troubled UFJ Holdings Inc. and Mitsubishi Tokyo Group Inc. that would create the world's largest bank, news reports said.
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Takefuji Corp., Japan&#39;s third-biggest consumer-finance company, may buy 100 billion yen ($945 million) of stock from founder Yasuo Takei in a bid to foil a takeover by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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The battle to form the world's biggest bank intensifies after Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group tables an offer to buy Japanese rival UFJ Holdings.
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The wireless content delivery company gets a third institutional round of funding, bringing total venture investment to &#36;46 million.
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The US Joint Forces Command has awarded a $29 million contract to design, establish and maintain a Joint Advanced Training Technology Laboratory to Anteon International Corp.
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TOKYO  -Japan pledged up to &#36;500 million US in grant aid for tsunami disaster relief on Saturday, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced, making the country the largest single donor to victims of the catastrophe.
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British telecommunications company Cable &amp; Wireless PLC is selling its Japanese business to Tokyo-based broadband services provider Softbank Corp. for 12.3 billion yen (&#36;115 million).
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Hoping to set the tone for this week&#39;s 50-nation Iraq reconstruction donors&#39; conference, Japan announced Tuesday three new projects worth a total of roughly US$14 million (euro 11.
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Japan is the world&#39;s second largest economic entity, after the United States. Its economic clout is felt worldwide. It is the second largest financial supporter of the United Nations.