Barclays seeks China, Singapore funds in ABN buy: report
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SINGAPORE/BEIJING  - Britain's Barclays  is in talks with the governments of China and Singapore to raise 10 billion pounds ($20.6 billion) to help fund its planned purchase of Dutch bank ABN AMRO , the BBC reported on Monday.
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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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Barclays, the third-biggest British bank, said that talks to buy a majority stake in South African banking group Absa were progressing well and it hoped to make an announcement soon.
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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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Britain&#39;s Barclays  is in  talks with the governments of China and Singapore to raise 10  billion pounds ($20.6 billion) to help fund its planned  purchase of Dutch bank ABN AMRO , the BBC reported on  Monday.
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Barclays raises its offer for the Dutch bank ABN Amro, after getting Chinese and Singaporean loans.
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State-linked investment funds in Qatar and Singapore are interested in buying almost one third of the London Stock Exchange from the US Nasdaq market, media reported on Monday.
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As many as three European banks may have submitted bids to purchase National Australia Bank&#39;s two units in Ireland, newspapers reported Friday.
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New York activist hedge fund Atticus Capital LP has acquired shares of British bank Barclays Plc  and is pushing the bank to drop its 63 billion-euro ($84.6 billion) bid for Dutch bank ABN AMRO , the Financial Times reported on Monday.
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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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Britain&#39;s Barclays signaled a return to retail banking in South Africa after 18 years&#39; absence, saying it was in talks to buy a majority of the country&#39;s biggest retail lender Absa.
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AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - ABN AMRO  said on Wednesday it would discuss with Barclays  the implications of a bid proposal this week by the consortium seeking to dislodge Barclays as ABN's preferred merger partner.
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LONDON -- Barclays PLC , which is competing with Royal Bank of Scotland PLC to buy ABN Amro Holding NV in the largest takeover fight in financial industry history, said yesterday it received approval from Dutch regulators to delay its proposed takeover.
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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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AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - A consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland has launched a 71.1 billion euro ($95.6 billion) bid for Dutch group ABN AMRO, trumping Britain's Barclays in a battle for the world's biggest bank takeover.
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia said it may buy 11 percent of Jinan City Commercial Bank, the first such purchase by an Australian lender in China, the fastest- growing among the world&#39;s 20 biggest economies.
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Business & money: UK-based bank confirms Â£9bn from the governments of China and Singapore will help it finance an improved takeover offer for Dutch rival ABN Amro.