NAB keen to offload Irish banks
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NATIONAL Australia Bank is testing the water for interest in its two Irish banks but is yet to commit to selling them. NAB chief executive John Stewart said yesterday that there had been several expressions
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MARIO Monti has thrown his support behind Banco Santander Centrale Hispanoâs Â£8.75 billion bid for Abbey National, after he said that the offer contributes to European Union single market goals.
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National Australia Bank is looking at selling its scandal-hit Irish operations after receiving several offers for the businesses, just a day after the bank's chief executive said such a move was unlikely.
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Banking group HBoS has been given access to Abbey National&#39;s books it emerged yesterday as the owner of the Halifax said it would complain to the European Commission about Banco Santander&#39;s bid for Abbey.
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Danske Bank A/S, the Nordic region&#39;s second-largest lender, agreed to buy two Irish units from National Australia Bank Ltd. for 967 million pounds ($1.86 billion) in its first major purchase outside of Scandinavia.
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A bank in Northern Ireland hit by a massive robbery this week is considering a drastic method of preventing the criminals enjoying their haul by taking all the types of notes seized out of circulation, it said.
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The chairman of Santander Central Hispano, the Spanish bank which is bidding for Abbey National, will tell unions today that a successful acquisition by his company will result in less than
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Business & money: Bank could step in to tackle fresh inflation fears.
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Things are looking up for National Australia Bank, which could be a good foreign investment.
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Embattled British bank Northern Rock  is preparing for a sell-off that could see its 100 billion pound ($200 billion) mortgage portfolio divided between the country's other major banks, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper said.
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Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has repaid business friends more than $100,000 in hopes of defusing a scandal that is threatening to force him from power, officials said Sunday.Comment
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Although they've committed the world's biggest all-cash robbery in peacetime, the audacious raiders of a Belfast bank face an uphill struggle to use most of their &#36;42 million haul &#151; because their Northern Ireland-produced bills are easy to track and hard to spend.
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Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn pledged Sunday to work with state lawmakers next year to attempt to force banks that do business with state government to roll back &quot;double-dip&quot; ATM fees.
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Pizza chain Domino's is planning to add to its handful of stores in Northern Ireland.
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National Australia Bank Ltd., the nation&#39;s largest lender, will bear any losses arising from the theft of about 20 million pounds ($38.5 million) from its Northern Bank unit in Northern Ireland.
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SYDNEY: National Australia Bank Ltd., the country&#39;s biggest bank, said yesterday it had received several &quot;expressions of interest&quot; in its two Irish banks but no decision has been made to sell the assets.
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A bank in Northern Ireland hit by a massive robbery said it was considering the drastic measure of taking several denominations of notes out of circulation as a means of preventing the criminals enjoying their haul.