Spain&#39;s BBVA Acquires Laredo National Bancshares for $850 Million
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Spanish banking giant Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) said in a filing with securities regulators Tuesday it was acquiring US-based Laredo National Bancshares (LNB) for $850 million.
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LONDON/MADRID  - Spanish bank Santander claimed  victory for its 8.7 billion pound ($15.6 billion) agreed  takeover of Britain's Abbey National after its most likely  rival, UK bank HBOS, pulled out of the race.
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TXU Corp.  said it agreed to be acquired  by a group led by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts  & Co.  and Texas Pacific Group  for about $45  billion including debt.
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Royal Ahold NV, the food retailer that owns the US Giant chain, agreed to sell its Spanish business to Permira funds for 685 million euros ($851 million).
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Bank of America Corp  on Friday said it has won approval from the U.S. Federal Reserve for its $21 billion acquisition of LaSalle Bank Corp from Dutch bank ABN AMRO Holding NV .
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NetManage (Quote, Chart) agreed to acquire privately held Librados for an undisclosed sum. The deal would give NetManage application adapters to help its Host Services Platform server applications via service
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Bank of America Corp  on Friday said it agreed to acquire struggling mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp  for about $4 billion in stock, a move that could help avert one of the biggest collapses in the U.S. housing crisis.
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SANTANDER Central Hispano, the Spanish bank that last year bought Britain - s Abbey National, yesterday sold its last shares in Royal Bank of Scotland, its partner of 16 years.
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Spanish infrastructure group Ferrovial  is in no rush to refinance the 10 billion pounds ($20.05 billion) of debt taken on to buy British airports operator BAA, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
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Spanish bank Banco Santander Central   Hispano SAN.MC will pay $651 million to buy a 90 percent   stake in U.S. auto financing company Drive Financial Services,   it said on Monday.
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BBVA has agreed to buy U.S. bank Compass Bancshares Inc. for $9.6 billion, the Spanish bank said on Friday, realizing a long-held ambition to gain a firm footing in the United States.
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Shareholders of Spain's largest bank, Banco Santander Central (SCH), overwhelmingly approved the 8.5-billion-pound (12.3-billion-euro, 15.3-billion-dollar) takeover of British mortgage bank Abbey National.
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Bank of America Corp  on Friday  said it has won approval from the U.S. Federal Reserve for its  $21 billion acquisition of LaSalle Bank Corp from Dutch bank  ABN AMRO Holding NV .
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NEW YORK/AMSTERDAM  - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc , in its second acquisition this week, agreed to buy the NRG NV reinsurance unit of ING Group NV  for about 300 million euros ($441 million).
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Bank of America Corp said on Friday it agreed to acquire battered mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp in a $4 billion transaction that could help avert one of the biggest collapses from the U.S. housing crisis.
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Banco Santander Central Hispano, Spain's leading bank, said it had raised its stake in Auna, the country's second-largest telecommunications group, to 32.08 percent from 27.34 percent.
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Banco Santander Central Hispano, SpainÂs biggest bank, agreed to buy 90 percent of Drive Financial Services of Dallas for $651 million, gaining a presence in 35 states with what is its first consumer finance move into the United States. The bank will buy the unit from HBOS, a British mortgage lender, and the management of Drive Financial. Santander will also pay as much as $175 million to some of Drive FinancialÂs management if the company meets goals in the next two years. Drive Financial offers financial services through 10,000 car dealers and had $2.4 billion of loans in August.