Chinese cash fuels Barclays bid
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Barclays raises its offer for the Dutch bank ABN Amro, after getting Chinese and Singaporean loans.
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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 forecast an 18-percent rise in annual profits.
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LONDON   British bank Barclays PLC gained its first toehold in the US consumer banking market Wednesday, saying it would buy credit-card company Juniper Financial Corp. from Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for $293 million in cash.
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Barclays&#39; share price rose on Friday after Britain&#39;s third biggest bank denied it was facing liquidity problems amid a collapse of the US subprime mortgage market.
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Johannesburg - Britain&#39;s Barclays yesterday signalled a return to retail banking in South Africa after an absence of 18 years, saying it was in talks to buy a controlling stake in Absa, the country&#39;s biggest retail lender.
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Goldman Sachs , hired to help arrange financing to rescue Northern Rock , is now seeking investors in China and the Middle East to help fund a takeover, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters.
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Britain's Barclays  has raised its offer for ABN AMRO  to 67.5 billion euros ($93 billion) and included a cash element as it seeks to regain the initiative in the world's biggest bank takeover battle.
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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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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China  plans to raise as much as US$19 billion in what would be the world's largest share sale, valuing the country's top lender at a discount to its largest rivals, a source familiar with the deal said on Sunday.
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The UK's third biggest bank Barclays sees annual pre-tax profits rise to record levels boosted by a sharp rise in business at its investment division.
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Shares in Barclays Plc  raced to a new high as speculation mounted that Bank of America Corp.  could bid for the UK bank, even though a sale of shares by Barclays' outgoing chairman signaled no approach had been made.
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Barclays called in two state-backed Asian financial powerhouses on Monday to strengthen its offer for ABN Amro amid a European bidding battle for the Dutch bank worth nearly 100 billion dollars.
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SHANGHAI/BEIJING  - Barclays  has won regulatory approval to buy into a Chinese trust company, securing a foothold in the country's fast-growing asset management sector, two sources familiar with the situation said on Monday.
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Chinese banks will be able to invest client money in British stocks and mutual funds, China said after a striking a deal with the European nation's regulators.
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China is to provide 4bn yuan of cheap loans to Chinese firms investing in the Caribbean, a report says.
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British bank Barclays Plc  has held merger talks with U.S. bank Wells Fargo  that could create a financial giant worth about &#36;180 billion, Britain's Sunday Express newspaper reported.
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Barclays, the nation's third-biggest bank, has said that net profit surged by 33 percent to a record 4.571 billion pounds in 2006, lifted by its investment banking arm.