Unions meet Barclays over ABN
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Unions seek assurances on jobs in the event of a Barclays' takeover of Dutch bank ABN Amro.
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AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - British bank Barclays's hopes of taking over Dutch rival ABN AMRO  won a boost on Tuesday when a court adviser said ABN could sell its U.S. arm without a shareholder vote.
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Barclays would make a better merger  candidate with ABN AMRO than a bid by a group led by Royal Bank  of Scotland aimed at breaking up the Dutch bank, a Dutch  newspaper quoted ABN&#39;s chief executive as saying on Saturday.
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Barclays PLC , attempting to wrest ABN Amro Holding NV from a competing offer by Royal Bank of Scotland Group, raised its bid to $93.4 billion after lining up investments from China and Singapore.
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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 &quot;a fair and  transparent manner.&quot;
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After a group led by the Royal Bank of Scotland raised the cash portion of its offer for ABN, Barclays said it might add cash to its all-share offer.
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LONDON/ZURICH  - Barclays  has not ruled out adding cash to the terms its ABN AMRO offer should it need to boost its bid to fight off a rival offer from a consortium of banks led by Royal Bank of Scotland, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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Dutch bank ABN AMRO can go ahead with its $21 billion sale of U.S. subsidiary LaSalle Bank to Bank of America, the Dutch Supreme Court said on Friday, boosting the chance that Barclays could succeed in its all-share bid to buy ABN for 64 billion euros ($88 billion).
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NYSE Euronext   is  looking into trading of ABN AMRO Holding NV  securities  that took place around the time of the bank&#39;s March  announcement of talks to be sold to Barclays PLC , The  Wall Street Journal reported.
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UK lender Barclays says it is in talks with South Africa's Absa about buying a majority stake in the bank.
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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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Absa Group Ltd., South Africa&#39;s fourth- biggest bank, said talks to sell a controlling stake to Barclays Plc, the UK&#39;s No.
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Transatlantic stock market operator NYSE Euronext has begun an investigation into the trading in shares in Dutch bank ABN Amro that surrounded an announcement that ABN was a takeover target of British bank Barclays, ABN said Tuesday.
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Barclays PLC, which is competing with Royal Bank of Scotland PLC to buy ABN Amro Holding NV in the largest takeover fight in the financial industry's history, said Monday it received approval from Dutch regulators to delay its proposed takeover.
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UK lender Barclays is in talks with South Africa&#39;s Absa about buying a majority stake in the bank. The move would &quot;immediately&quot; boost earnings and profit, and &quot;enhance the bank&#39;s existing successful African operations&quot;, Barclays said.
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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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A trio of banks led by Royal Bank of Scotland  will on Tuesday provide an update on its plans to bid for Dutch bank ABN AMRO , with a formal offer seen as a strong possibility.