HBoS fires broadside at Spanish galleon
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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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HBOS&#39;s decision not to bid for rival Abbey Nationalleaves just smaller targets for large British banks to buy in the UK, bankers and analysts say.
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Banking group HBOS yesterday criticised European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti for appearing to welcome the Â£8.8 billion takeover of Abbey National
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A bidding war involving Europeâs three major exchanges was on the cards today after Paris-based Euronext made an approach to rival Deutsche Boerseâs Â£1.35 billion offer for the London Stock Exchange.
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Home Office gives dunce-bombers a victory after all British terror-plods will be given real-time access to the massive camera network operated in London to support the Congestion Charge, it has been reported.â¦
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LONDON -- Cell phone giant Vodafone Group PLC, which has spent years struggling to recoup billions spent on 3G licences, finally launched the cutting-edge service Wednesday in much of Europe and introduced or beefed up its operation in a dozen other
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European shares traded sideways on  Wednesday but banks were a bright spot as Britain's HBOS  rallied on relief it would not be wading into a bidding war for  domestic peer Abbey.
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A lost CD-ROM with information on 62,000 mortgage customers of the UK's HBOS banking group shouldn't have been sent through the standard mail system, and it definitely should have been encrypted. But it was and it wasn't.
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UK bank HBOS says it will not proceed with an offer for Abbey.
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UK bank HBOS steps up its international drive with plans to open 160 new branches on Australia's east coast.
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Britain&#39;s biggest mortgage lender, HBOS  Plc , is in the early stages of planning a 1.2 billion  pound ($2.44 billion) takeover bid for property group Quintain  Estates & Development Plc , The Sunday Times reported.
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HBOS walked away from a possible bid for Abbey National yesterday, shortening the odds sharply on a Â£8.7 billion recommended offer from Spanish bank Santander Central Hispano being successful.
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HBOS, based in Edinburgh, said last month it was considering making an offer for Abbey after Santander, Spain s biggest lender, agreed to buy the London-based bank in Europe s biggest-ever cross- border bank ...
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HBOS , Britain's biggest mortgage lender, said profits are on track to rise 4 percent this year but it will take a 180 million pound ($367.7 million) hit on the value of assets due to the credit crunch, which will also hurt margins.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- British bank HBOS (UK:HBOS) on Monday was added to Deutsche Bank&#39;s pan-European focus list. It was added &quot;ahead of potential bid for Abbey National (UK:ANL) on basis of very little downside
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HBOS, the fourth-biggest British bank, has reported a 13.6-percent rise in first-half net profit to 1.759 billion pounds (2.577 billion euros, 3.281 billion dollars) but was also marked by bad debts.
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Vodafone Group, the world&#39;s largest mobile phone operator, fired the first salvo in the pre-Christmas marketing war today when it announced the full launch of third-generation wireless services.