Santander Aims to Complete Abbey Purchase by November, FT Says
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Santander Central Hispano SA aims to complete its 8.3 billion pounds ($15 billion) purchase of Abbey National Plc by November, the Financial Times said, citing Juan Inciarte, Santander&#39;s director for Europe and consumer finance.
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The Spanish bank which is buying Abbey made a Â£2.2bn profit (3.1bn euros)in the first nine months of 2004. Banco Santander Central Hispano, which is acquiring the UK lender in a Â£8.
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SPAINâS Santander Central Hispano is to sell up to 79 million shares in Royal Bank of Scotland, and said it will end cross-directorships with RBS if its bid for Abbey National is successful.
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SANTANDER, the new owner of Abbey National, yesterday unveiled Francisco Gomez-Roldan, the Spanish bank&#39;s chief financial officer, as Abbey&#39;s chief executive as it took another step towards finalising the Â£9bn all-share acquisition.
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Santander Central Hispano&#39;s Chairman Emilio Botin pledged a year ago to propel the Spanish bank into the world&#39;s top 10 by market capitalisation, an ambition which could now be realised with a bid for Abbey National.
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Spanish bank Santander Central Hispano says the referral of any competing offer for Abbey National to regulators need not mean Santander would pull out of the fray.
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Santander Central Hispano has won permission from the European Commission to press ahead with its agreed 8.7 billion pound takeover of Abbey National.
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Santander Central Hispano&#39;s Â£8.6bn ($15.3bn) bid for UK lender Abbey will help create a single regional financial market, the European Union (EU) said.
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Spain's biggest bank Banco Santander Central Hispano (SCH) said it was finalising its acquisition of Britain's Abbey National to create the world's tenth-largest bank.
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European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti has given the green light to the UKÂ£8.75bn takeover bid by Spain&#39;s Santander for the UK&#39;s Abbey National.
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Santander Central Hispano's Â£8.6bn bid for UK lender Abbey will help create a single regional financial market, the European Union's Mario Monti says.
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Santander Central Hispano has said it aims to complete its takeover of High Street bank Abbey one month sooner than originally planned.
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SPANISH bank Santander has offered to cut back its ties with Royal Bank of Scotland in an attempt to avoid a competition inquiry into its bid for Abbey.
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Santander, Spain's biggest bank, said Friday it had agreed to sell its headquarters in Madrid to a consortium led by British real estate firm Propinvest for 1.9 billion euros (2.8 billion US dollars).
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Santander, the Spanish bank bidding Â£8bn for the UK's Abbey, is selling half its stake in rival Royal Bank of Scotland.
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The takeover of Abbey has cleared a major hurdle after shareholders in Spain&#39;s largest bank voted to approve the deal. At a meeting in Spain, Santander Central Hispano (SCH) investors backed all resolutions
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Spanish bank Santander Central Hispano would drop an eight billion pound-plus offer for Abbey National if rival bids result in a drawn-out competition investigation, the Sunday Telegraph reports.