HBOS weighs up Abbey bid
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Banking group HBOS today stayed silent on claims that its bosses will meet this week to finalise plans for a Â£10bn (â¬14.7bn) bid for Abbey National.
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HBOS questioned yesterday the impartiality of the European Union&#39;s competition commissioner, Mario Monti, after he made comments that appeared to be favourable to a bid for Abbey National by the Spanish bank Santander Central Hispano.
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HBOS has decided against bidding for Abbey National, dampening hopes of a challenge to Spanish bank Santander&#39;s agreed 8.8 billion pound takeover and hitting the target&#39;s shares.
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Britain-based HBOS says it will file a complaint to the European Commission against Spanish bank Santander Central Hispano (SCH) in connection with SCH&#39;s bid to acquire British bank Abbey National
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Spanish bank Santander SAN.MC would not necessarily drop its 8 billion pound plus bid for Abbey National if another bank entered the fray and sparked a competition probe, it says.
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Abbey National today looked set for Spanish ownership after banking group HBOS declared it was no longer considering a rival bid. Here are the key dates in the long-running saga over the troubled bankâs future.
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LONDON/ZURICH  - Barclays  has not ruled out adding cash to the terms its ABN AMRO offer should it need to boost its bid to fight off a rival offer from a consortium of banks led by Royal Bank of Scotland, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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Barclays said on Thursday that it was considering the introduction of a cash element to its all-shares offer for Dutch bank ABN Amro.
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Liverpool Football Club may receive its third offer of investment in six months after a Hollywood producer said he is considering a bid for English soccer&#39;s most successful team.
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Banco Santander is making an attempt to seize back the initiative in its Â£8.3bn takeover of Abbey National, speeding up its bid timetable while rival bidders continue to circle the UK bank.
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THE Halifax Bank of Scotland group, HBOS, has known since May that Spain&#39;s Banco Santander Central Hispano wished to buy Abbey National.
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Business & money: Cable company says it has received a takeover bid and is considering potential sale.
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The European Commission received a protest letter Tuesday from British bank HBOS about the proposed takeover of rival Abbey National by Spain&#39;s largest bank, Santander Central Hispano.
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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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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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Analysts at BNP Paribas said a Euronext bid for the London Stock Exchange would be &quot;difficult to justify&quot; despite the French bank negotiating to join Euronext&#39;s roster of advisers.
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Halifax-to-Bank of Scotland group HBOS today said it had pulled out of a potential takeover battle for Abbey National. The announcement that it will not be bidding clears