RBS-led trio bids $95.7 bln for ABN, tops rival offer
32102
AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - A consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland  has launched a 71.1 billion euro ($95.7 billion) bid for Dutch group ABN AMRO, trumping Britain's Barclays in a battle for the world's biggest bank takeover.
166136
AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - A consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland unveiled a 71.1 billion euro ($95.6 billion) bid for ABN AMRO that included its disputed U.S. bank and a higher cash component than indicated.
221524
LONDON/AMSTERDAM  - A consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland on Monday kept its offer to buy Dutch bank ABM AMRO at 71.1 billion euros ($97.9 billion) but raised the amount of cash it is offering after having to exclude ABN's U.S. arm from the purchase.
284015
A consortium led by Royal Bank  of Scotland unveiled a 71.1 billion euro ($95.6 billion) bid  for ABN AMRO that included its disputed U.S. bank and a higher  cash component than indicated.
411182
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Barclays will raise its offer for ABN Amro to $93.2 billion, with help from two Asian financial partners, in the face of a rival bid led by the Royal Bank of Scotland, the British bank said Monday.
554771
Britain&#39;s Barclays  has raised  its offer for ABN AMRO  to 67.5 billion euros ($93  billion) and included 37 percent in cash as it seeks to regain  the initiative in the world&#39;s biggest bank takeover battle.
430821
A 98-billion dollar (71 billion euro) bid for Dutch bank ABN Amro from a three-member consortium led by the Royal Bank of Scotland won the approval Monday of Dutch Finance Minister Wouter Bos.
592531
Barclays PLC , competing to buy ABN Amro Holding NV in the world's biggest banking takeover, may sweeten its $89.3 billion all-stock bid by adding cash.
67468
LONDON/AMSTERDAM  - The takeover battle for ABN AMRO  heated up on Monday with the Royal Bank of Scotland  consortium boosting the cash element of its 71.1 billion-euro ($98 billion) offer.
513023
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.
544993
The British bank bidding for ABN Amro, won an endorsement from a Dutch Supreme Court adviser that could help decide in its favor the next step in the banking takeover battle.
34048
The bid by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and two other European banks topped an offer by Barclays.
540071
Shareholders in ABN AMRO   will weigh three key events in the coming week to decide which  of two rival bidders will clinch control of the Dutch bank  after a six-month takeover battle.
313091
A trio of banks led by Royal Bank of Scotland  will probably on Tuesday make a formal takeover offer for Dutch bank ABN AMRO , said sources familiar with the matter on Friday.
162085
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.
649019
A consortium of banks led by the Royal Bank of Scotland increased the cash portion of its bid for ABN Amro to 93 percent from 79 percent.
221054
The move by the consortium of banks, which is led by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, is intended to help it prevail in a bidding war with Barclays.