Germany, France Eye Citigroup Bond Trades
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The German and French financial  watchdogs said on Thursday they were looking into recent  trading by U.S. financial services group Citigroup C.N in  European government bond and derivative markets.
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Germany's financial watchdog said on Thursday it was looking into recent trading by U.S. financial services group Citigroup (C.N) in European government bond and derivative markets, but had not started a formal probe.
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Citigroup Inc. is under investigation by German financial regulators for possibly manipulating euro-zone bond markets, the government said Wednesday.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) - Failed efforts to merge stock exchanges have littered the trading landscape in recent years, but the German stock exchange isn&#39;t giving up on creating a pan-European and British market for trading stocks and derivatives.
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France and Germany's market watchdogs say they are looking into Citigroup bond trades already under scrutiny in the UK.
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Citigroup was poised on Tuesday to launch a takeover bid for scandal-hit Japanese brokerage Nikko Cordial Corp. in a deal worth more than $5 billion that would mark the U.S. bank's resurgence in Japan.
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Citigroup  flagged its interest in  buying a bank in Germany on Tuesday but played down recent talk  that it was about to swoop on Commerzbank .
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will host German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy for a meeting in the first half of January on financial market stability.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc., the world&#39;s biggest bank, is being investigated by the UK market regulator over ``unusual trading activity&#39;&#39; in European government bonds earlier this month.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings  Inc. , parent of the largest U.S. futures exchange, and  Germany's Deutsche Boerse (DB1Gn.DE) may explore a possible  combination, according to a report in Saturday's Wall Street  Journal.
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Citigroup's  involvement in most transactions announced on the latest "Merger Monday" helped it edge ahead of rivals in the M&A advisory league tables for announced global deals.
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Citigroup is set to launch a tender offer for scandal-hit Japanese brokerage Nikko Cordial Corp., a Nikko spokesman said on Tuesday, a potential $5 billion deal that would mark Citigroup's resurgence in Japan.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a joint call here on Monday for greater regulation of international financial markets.
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Finance ministers from Britain, Germany, France and Italy are meeting later Thursday in Paris to agree on a common European strategy to confront turbulence on the financial markets.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel called here on Monday for more transparency on international finance markets.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and  French President Jacques Chirac will discuss the situation at  Airbus  on Friday but Germany insisted management and  not politicians should decide on a restructuring of the firm.
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The recent woes of Citigroup   have encouraged some investment bankers to talk up the chances  that the biggest U.S. bank might feel pressure to buy a major  U.S. rival, with Wells Fargo & Co.  and even Goldman  Sachs Group  touted as potential merger partners.