China to buy huge Barclays stake
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Barclays is close to raising some Â£10bn from China and Singapore to back its takeover of a Dutch bank.
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LONDON/BEIJING  - British bank Barclays  has raised its bid for Dutch group ABN AMRO  to 67.5 billion euros ($93 billion), helped by some of the biggest ever overseas investments by China and Singapore.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- UK bank Barclays said Wednesday it has agreed to buy credit-card issuer Juniper Financial from Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for $293 million in cash.
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Barclays said Thursday that it was in &quot;early stage&quot; talks about buying control of South Africa&#39;s Absa Group for at least $3 billion in what would be its largest purchase outside Britain.
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China and a US company buy a $14bn stake in mining giant Rio Tinto, in China's largest foreign investment.
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Shares in Barclays  raced to a record high as speculation mounted that Bank of America  could bid for the UK bank, even though its outgoing chairman sold shares to signal no approach had been made.
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Citigroup will buy Taiwan's Bank of Overseas Chinese (BOOC) "very soon", an executive of the Taiwan lender said on Thursday, in a deal media said would be worth US$425 million.
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HSBC, the UK's largest bank, agrees to buy 51% of Korea Exchange Bank for $6.3bn.
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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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HSBC Holdings , Europe's biggest bank, is acquiring The Chinese Bank Co. in Taiwan and will provide it with additional capital of between $300 million and $400 million, it said on Friday.
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China Construction Bank  said on Tuesday it was launching an initial public offer of shares that is expected to be China's biggest, raising more than $7 billion.
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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.
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Singapore&#39;s state-linked investment firm Temasek Holdings said Monday it is investing 975 million pounds in Barclays, fighting to take over Dutch lender ABN Amro.
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The bid by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and two other European banks topped an offer by Barclays.
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China's securities regulator has approved a plan by Shanghai conglomerate Bailian Group to acquire major stakes in five retailers in a step toward creating a massive retail chain group.
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Barclays, the third-biggest British bank, said that talks to buy a majority stake in South African banking group Absa were progressing well, and forecast an 18-percent rise in annual profits.
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By Julia Kollewe in London and Renee Bonorchis in Johannesburg. Barclays, the bank that pulled out of South Africa in 1986 after protests during the apartheid era, said yesterday it was in talks to buy a majority