Court advice boosts Barclays ABN takeover hopes
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AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - British bank Barclays's hopes of taking over Dutch rival ABN AMRO  won a boost on Tuesday when a court adviser said ABN could sell its U.S. arm without a shareholder vote.
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UK lender Barclays says it is in talks with South Africa's Absa about buying a majority stake in the bank.
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Dutch bank ABN AMRO  can proceed with its $21 billion sale of U.S. subsidiary LaSalle to Bank of America , the Dutch Supreme Court said on Friday, boosting the prospect Barclays  will succeed in its takeover of ABN.
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Shares in British bank Barclays PLC pushed higher Monday on media reports that it has held merger talks with U.S. banking giant Wells Fargo &amp; Co.
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Barclays  is planning to sweeten its offer for ABN AMRO  after a consortium of rivals led by Royal Bank of Scotland  revised its bid for the Dutch bank, the Financial Times said on Tuesday.
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Barclays Bank  is confident of winning the bid battle for Dutch bank ABN AMRO NV , a senior Barclays executive said on Tuesday.
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LONDON -- Barclays PLC , which is competing with Royal Bank of Scotland PLC to buy ABN Amro Holding NV in the largest takeover fight in financial industry history, said yesterday it received approval from Dutch regulators to delay its proposed takeover.
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ABN Amro does not need shareholder approval to sell its U S arm, a Dutch government lawyer said yesterday in an advisory opinion that increases the chances that ABN will ultimately be bought by Barclays.
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An RBS-led group sweetens its bid for Dutch lender ABN Amro, boosting the amount of cash it has offered.
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LONDON/BEIJING  - British bank Barclays  has raised its bid for Dutch group ABN AMRO  to 67.5 billion euros ($93 billion), helped by some of the biggest ever overseas investments by China and Singapore.
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Barclays  has drawn up contingency plans for a big cash sweetener to strengthen its all-share offer for Dutch bank ABN AMRO , the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Shares of Barclays PLC rose more than 4 percent yesterday after an investment analyst advised clients that Bank of America Corp. may be interested in bidding for the London-based banking company.
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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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NYSE Euronext has joined Dutch and British financial authorities in examining trading patterns of ABN Amroâs shares and American depositary receipts just before the multibillion-dollar bidding war over ABN became public, the bank said. âWe have received a request from the NYSE regarding transactions ahead of the announcement of our merger talks with Barclays,â a spokesman, Neil Moorhouse, said, reading a statement. He said ABN was cooperating with the investigation, but could not comment on whether there was any reason to suspect insider trading. The Supreme Court in the Netherlands is expected to make a ruling Friday in the fight between Barclays and a consortium of banks led by the Royal Bank of Scotland to buy ABN Amro for about 71 billion euros ($97.6 billion).
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LONDON, September 24  - Barclays Plc (BCY.FSE) witnessed a robust rally in its share price this morning, after the company disclosed its plans to buy a controlling stake the South African retail banking company, Absa, yesterday.
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Barclays, the third-biggest British bank, said that talks to buy a majority stake in South African banking group Absa were progressing well and it hoped to make an announcement soon.
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China Development Bank and Temasek help with Barclays' bid for ABN.