Spain&#39;s SCH Wins British Bank for $16 Bln
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Spanish bank Santander claimed victory for its 8.7 billion pound ($15.6 billion) agreed takeover of Britain&#39;s Abbey National after its most likely rival, UK bank HBOS, pulled out of the race.
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The Spanish bank which is buying Abbey made a Â£2.2bn profit (3.1bn euros)in the first nine months of 2004. Banco Santander Central Hispano, which is acquiring the UK lender in a Â£8.
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Spain's biggest bank Santander Central Hispano has completed its takeover of Abbey Nationalin a deal with a current market value of almost $18 billion (9.7 billion pounds). Santander's share price has risen ...
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Santander Central Hispano SA, the biggest bank in Spain and Latin America, may drop its 8.2 billion ($14.9 billion) offer to buy Abbey National Plc if rival bids lead to a long competition
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SPAINâS Santander Central Hispano is to sell up to 79 million shares in Royal Bank of Scotland, and said it will end cross-directorships with RBS if its bid for Abbey National is successful.
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FRANKFURT  - Deustche Bank, Germany&#39;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 (405 million dollars).
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The UK&#39;s Financial Services Authority approved Santander Central Hispano SA&#39;s 9.4 billion-pound ($17.4 billion) takeover of Abbey National Plc, paving the way for Europe&#39;s biggest cross-border bank merger.
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The Financial Services Authority has cleared Spanish bank Santander Central Hispano's Â£9bn takeover of Abbey National.
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A Spanish judicial body said Tuesday it will investigate how Barclays bank received a court order to pay 1.1 quadrillion euros ($1.4 quadrillion US) in compensation to the former owner of a Spanish bank it ...
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LONDON/AMSTERDAM  - Royal Bank of Scotland  and its partners have sweetened their 71.1 billion-euro ($98 billion) bid for Dutch bank ABN AMRO , putting in more cash in an attempt to beat rival suitor Barclays .
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HSBC Holdings , Europe's biggest  bank, is acquiring The Chinese Bank Co. in Taiwan and will  provide it with additional capital of between $300 million and  $400 million, it said on Friday.
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Global bank HSBC Holdings  has won a government auction for Taiwan's The Chinese Bank Co Ltd, which had gross assets of approximately US$3.1 billion at September 30, it said in a statement on Friday.
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AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - A consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland  has launched a 71.1 billion euro ($95.9 billion) bid for Dutch group ABN AMRO, trumping Britain's Barclays in a battle for the world's biggest bank takeover.
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Santander Central Hispano has won permission from the European Commission to press ahead with its agreed 8.7 billion pound takeover of Abbey National.
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Banco Santander Central Hispano, which is buying UK lender Abbey for Â£8.5bn, makes a Â£2.2bn profit in the first nine months of 2004.
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Santander, Spain - Shareholders of Spain&#39;s largest bank, Banco Santander Central, on Thursday approved the Â£8,5-billion takeover of British mortgage bank Abbey National.
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Spain's biggest bank Banco Santander Central Hispano (SCH) said it was finalising its acquisition of Britain's Abbey National to create the world's tenth-largest bank.