German savings bank buys regional bank LBB
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The German savings bank federation DSGV on Friday bought the regional Landesbank Berlin (LBB) for 4.62 billion euros (6.1 billion dollars), ending years of uncertainty over its future.
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Citigroup agreed to buy Egg Banking, a British online bank, for $1.13 billion, the latest in a series of small deals to expand its retail presence abroad.
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EU regulators gave the green light on Monday to Deutsche Bank&#39;s purchase of Lloyds TSB&#39;s life insurance arm, Abbey Life, after finding the deal would not stifle competition.
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German bank WestLB sells its 43.4% percent stake in the UK's Odeon cinema chain to a private equity firm.
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FRANKFURT: Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau (KfW), the state owned bank that the German government uses as a vehicle for privatisation, is selling via the open market a stake of around seven percent in telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom.
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The eastern German state of Saxony sold a troubled state-run bank as the global liquidity crisis claimed its first major European victim.
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German banks and the regional government have agreed how they will cover some 17.5 billion euros ($25.70 billion) worth of troubled state lender SachsenLB's risks as part of a deal to rescue the bank, several sources familiar with the situation said on Thursday.
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The German state of Saxony said Sunday it would sell the Landesbank Sachsen (SachsenLB), which has been hard hit by the US subprime crisis, to the Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg (LBBW).
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Belgian drugmaker UCB UCBBt.BR has   agreed to buy Germany's Schwarz Pharma SRZG.DE for around 4.4   billion euros ($5.6 billion) in stock and cash in the third   major drug sector transaction in Germany in five days.
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HypoVereinsbank, Germany's second biggest bank, said it had agreed to buy a portfolio of loans to mid-size corporate customers from ING BHF-Bank, the German arm of Dutch financial services group ING.
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Germany's Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg will take over SachsenLB, a smaller public-sector bank that has been buffeted by its exposure to the U.S. subprime credit crisis, a German state governor said Sunday.
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BBVA bank, the second-biggest Spanish bank, said it has reached an agreement to buy Texas-based US bank Compass Bancshares for 9.6 billion US dollars (7.4 billion euros).
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Lone Star Funds, which tried and failed to acquire Bankgesellchaft Berlin AG last year, agreed to buy 3.6 billion euros ($4.4 billion) in mostly defaulted German loans, the biggest such purchase in the country.
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Deustche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, said it finalised the sale of a portfolio of 109 business properties to British investment fund Eurocastle Investment for 300 million euros (211 million pounds).
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HSBC Holdings PLC, Europe's biggest bank, agreed to buy a 51 percent stake in Korea Exchange Bank for $6.3 billion as it attempts to boost its presence in the fast-growing Asian market.
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Danske Bank on Tuesday said it agreed to buy two Irish banks from the National Australia Bank for 967 million pounds ($1.93 billion) in cash.
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Toronto-Dominion Bank of Toronto said Thursday it agreed to acquire a 51 percent stake in New England regional bank Banknorth Group Inc.