Bank of New York to buy Mellon
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Bank of New York Co.  said on Monday it will buy Mellon Financial Corp.  for $16.5 billion, combining two storied names in American finance to create a powerhouse in custody services for institutional investors and one of the biggest asset managers.
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NEW YORK : Citigroup, the world&#39;s biggest financial firm, said it has agreed to buy Texas-based First American Bank for an undisclosed sum.
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New York activist hedge fund Atticus  Capital LP has acquired shares of British bank Barclays Plc   and is pushing the bank to drop its 63 billion-euro  ($84.6 billion) bid for Dutch bank ABN AMRO , the  Financial Times reported on Monday.
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Citigroup Inc. (CN: Quote, Profile, Research) the world&#39;s largest financial services company, said on Tuesday it will acquire First American Bank in the quickly-growing Texas market.
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PITTSBURGH Mellon Financial Corporation has agreed to acquire The Providence Group Investment Advisory Company, a private investment firm.
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Bank of New York Mellon Corp   said on Thursday fourth-quarter profit fell, reflecting a  one-time gain a year earlier.
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Bank of America agrees to buy mortgage firm Countrywide Financial, which has been hit by the credit crisis.
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Bank of New York Mellon Corp  said on Thursday third-quarter profit rose 11 percent, topping analysts' forecasts, helped by growth in fees from asset management and providing back-office services to institutional clients.
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TORONTO - Bank of Montreal and its US subsidiary, Harris Bank, said Wednesday it will pay $197.4 million to purchase privately held Mercantile Bancorp Inc.
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Capital One Financial Corp.   said on Friday it completed its $13.2 billion purchase of North  Fork Bancorp Inc., becoming the 11th-largest U.S. banking  company and third-largest retail bank by deposits in the New  York metropolitan area.
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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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Financial services giant MBNA Corp. reported Monday it agreed to buy the $550 million credit card portfolio of regional bank holding company AmSouth Bancorp.
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Swiss-based banking giant UBS AG has agreed to buy Charles Schwab Corp.'s capital markets unit for &#36;265 million in cash, the companies said on Tuesday.
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IBM , the world's largest  information technology company, on Thursday said it agreed to  buy FileNet  for $1.6 billion, its third  software-related purchase announcement in a week.
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Morgan Stanley  said on Monday it has acquired Nan Tung Bank, a Zhuhai-based foreign funded bank formerly owned by a full subsidiary of Bank of China .
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Bank of New York Co. Inc.  on Monday announced plans to buy Mellon Financial Corp.  to create the world's largest securities servicing and asset management firm.
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Asset management company Federated Investors Inc. on Thursday said it will buy Alliance Capital Management Holding LP&#39;s cash management business.