Big bank and broker in merger
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LONDON JP Morgan Chase and Cazenove Group, a 181-year-old brokerage firm with close ties to some of Britain&#39;s most powerful executives, announced a long-awaited joint venture Friday that puts Cazenove in charge of all of JP Morgan&#39;s British investment
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The NASD and NYSE Group yesterday said they plan to merge their regulatory operations in a move designed to reduce costly duplications.
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Piper Rudnick and the British law firm DLA have agreed to combine in the largest merger of law firms to date. The combined firm, which is to be known as DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, will have
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BlackRock Inc. BLK.N, one of the  largest U.S. fixed income managers, on Thursday said it will  buy its far smaller competitor State Street Research &  Management Co. in the biggest takeover in the asset management  industry this year.
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The British banking group Barclays has held talks with US rival Wells Fargo about a possible merger that would create the world's fourth largest bank.
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TOKYO - In the old days in Japan, a merger between two banks would have been quietly brokered behind closed doors. But the current clash between two major Japanese banks over competing bids for a smaller rival is turning into a boisterous public brawl.
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The transaction, between the company and a group of private investors, would be one of the biggest deals to take a company private
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Bavarian savings banks want to see a merger get underway this year of regional bank LBBW with BayernLB, which has been hit by subprime related losses, a press report said Tuesday.
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Two investment companies that for years have catered to the Washington-Baltimore region's wealthiest families and individuals are merging, according to executives for the firms.
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Banknorth Group's largest shareholder, Private Capital Management, said it plans to vote in favor of the merger with Canada's TD Bank Financial Group after expressing reservations several months ago. The change increases the likelihood the merger will go through. Several of Banknorth's major shareholders had reservations because of the deal's structure. TD plans to acquire a majority stake in the ...
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Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc.  on  Monday said it agreed to buy Summit Bancshares Inc.   for &#36;363.5 million of cash and stock in a merger of two Texas  banks.
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NEW YORK : Citigroup, the world&#39;s biggest financial firm, said it has agreed to buy Texas-based First American Bank for an undisclosed sum.
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BusinessWeek Online - It sounds like a tale of woe for Europe's investment banks. One of the biggest takeover attempts in British retail history -- retail tycoon Philip Green's &#36;17 billion bid for iconic Marks &amp; Spencer Group PLC -- came to naught. A much-anticipated boom in initial public offerings has fizzled. And after a drought that started in 2001, merger-and-acquisition activity remains in a funk. But bankers in Europe's financial capital, the City of London, and its auxiliary, Canary Wharf, aren't crying in their pints. ...
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Danversbank is headed to Wall Street. The $1.2 billion-asset bank has applied to the state Division of Banks to become a publicly traded company. The bank filed an application last week to convert from a mutual bank, owned by its depositors, to stock ownership. Sandler O'Neil and Partners LP, an investment bank, will handle the stock sale, which must be ...
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The merger of the U.S. brokerage industryâs two major watchdogs finally has a name: the Securities Industry Regulatory Authority, or SIRA.
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With a major trading-fraud case finally settled yesterday, the Boston-based mutual fund operations of Bank of America are at work on a major restructuring over the coming months that will result in a smaller, more coherent lineup of funds, officials said.
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The biggest takeover battle in banking history gets even bigger as Asia enters the fight for ABN Amro