HSBC interested in KEB, contacted Lone Star: paper
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HSBC Holdings Plc has contacted Lone Star about buying Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) from the U.S. private equity fund, the UK's Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday.
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HSBC Holdings Plc&#39;s  U.S.  subprime unit scheduled a management conference call with its  staff on Friday amid concern about layoffs and even a winding  down of operations, two employees at the unit said.
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Private equity fund Sun Capital  Partners is considering a renewed bid to take over clothing  brand company Kellwood Co.  with a hostile conditional  tender offer, The New York Post reported on Thursday.
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U.S. private equity fund Lone Star   is in talks with several strategic investors to sell  Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) (004940.KS), Lone Star chairman John  Grayken said in an interview with a local newspaper on Monday.
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HSBC  is poised to put hundreds  of its French regional retail branches up for sale, a further  sign the bank is shifting its focus to emerging markets,  according to media reports on Sunday.
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HSBC Holdings is in talks to buy Korea First Bank from its controlling shareholder, Newbridge Capital.
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SEOUL: HSBC Holdings is expected to be named the preferred bidder to buy South Korea&#39;s eighth-largest lender Korea First Bank, a source at the Korean bank familiar with the deal said yesterday.
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The report claims that a consortium associated with Brand Synergy (which has close links with Nigel Mansell) has lodged interest with HSBC which is handling the sale of the F1 team and engine manufacturer Cosworth.
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Private equity house Lone Star sold a  larger-than-expected 13.6 percent stake in lender Korea  Exchange Bank, raising $1.28 billion, a source said, as the  U.S. firm begins to exit an investment burdened by legal  challenges.
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HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe&#39;s biggest bank by market value, and Standard Chartered Plc are vying for control of Korea First Bank after neither of the UK-based lenders could agree a price with its biggest shareholder.
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) said yesterday it was in talks with the Jinan City Commercial Bank (JNCCB) about buying a stake in the regional lender.
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U.S. investment firm Lone Star  has stopped talks with Singapore's DBS Group Holdings Ltd.  to sell Korea Exchange Bank (KEB), Yonhap news quoted Lone Star's chairman as saying on Sunday.
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Private equity fund Sun Capital Partners is considering a renewed bid to take over clothing brand company Kellwood Co.  with a hostile conditional tender offer, The New York Post reported on Thursday.
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U.S. buyout fund Lone Star said on Thursday it was ending an agreement to sell Korea Exchange Bank  to Kookmin Bank  in a $7.3 billion deal, which has been subject to a long-running prosecutor probe.
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HSBC  (0005.HK) is not  considering acquisitions in Japan and will instead focus on  growth by itself as it rolls out retail banking in the world&#39;s  second-largest economy, HSBC Chairman Stephen Green said on  Thursday.
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Activist investor Knight Vinke is calling for HSBC Holdings  Executive Chairman Stephen Green to be moved to non-executive chairman as part of a campaign to force change at the bank, the Sunday Times reported.
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HSBC agreed to buy 51 percent of  Korea Exchange Bank from private equity firm Lone Star for $6.3  billion, in a deal that could propel the UK-based bank into the  top ranks of Asia&#39;s third-largest banking market.