Swiss Bank Buys Schwab Unit
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Swiss banking giant UBS AG announced Tuesday that it is buying the capital markets division of discount brokerage Charles Schwab Corp. in a &#36;265 million bid to become one of the top traders on the NASDAQ exchange.
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Bank of Montreal, Canada&#39;s fifth- biggest bank, agreed to buy Mercantile Bancorp Inc., which has branches in northwestern Indiana, for $156.
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Swiss banking group UBS, the world's largest wealth manager, said on Monday it had strengthened its position in the United States by buying local rival Julius Baer's U.S. wealth-management business.
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ZURICH/NEW YORK  - Swiss banking group UBS, the  world's largest wealth manager, said on Monday it had  strengthened its position in the United States by buying local  rival Julius Baer's U.S. wealth-management business.
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Charles Schwab Corp. (NYSE: SCH) became a powerhouse because of its innovation. Then again, the company had a laser focus: providing low-cost, quality services for retail investors.
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Asia-focused bank Standard Chartered Plc said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy American Express Bank for around $860 million in cash to boost its private banking and correspondent banking services.
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Charles Schwab announced early Tuesday it has reached a deal, as expected, to sell its Soundview Capital Markets unit to Swiss bank UBS for $265 million in cash.
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LONDON/SEOUL  - HSBC  has agreed to buy a 51 percent stake in Korea Exchange Bank (KEB)  from U.S. private equity firm Lone Star for about $6.3 billion in cash to boost its profile in Asia's third-largest banking market.
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HSBC Holdings said Friday it will acquire The Chinese Bank in Taiwan after winning a government auction here, substantially boosting its operations on the island.
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Credit Suisse Group, Switzerland's second-largest bank, said Tuesday it will combine its U.S.-based Credit Suisse First Boston investment unit with its retail and private banking business within two years.
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SAP AG has agreed to acquire the Swiss and U.S. business units of SAP Systems Integration AG (SAP SI), bringing its absorption of the company nearer to completion.
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UBS said Tuesday that it would buy Charles Schwab&#39;s market making, research and institutional trading unit for $265 million in cash.
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Global banking giant HSBC said Monday it had agreed to buy a majority stake in South Korea&#39;s Korea Exchange Bank from US private equity fund Lone Star for about 6.3 billion dollars (4.6 billion euros) in cash.
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NEW YORK, and BALTIMORE, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Deutsche Bank and Legg Mason, Inc. (NYSE:LM) announced today that they have signed a definitive asset purchase agreement whereby Legg Mason will acquire
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Swiss banking group UBS said that it had paid 265 million dollars (219 million euros) to buy SoundView, the capital markets division of online broker Charles Schwab to strengthen its position on the US Nasdaq market.
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Enriched from the sale of its wealth management subsidiary, Charles Schwab will buy back more than 100 million of its shares and paying a one-time dividend.
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Charles Schwab Corp. , the  largest U.S. online brokerage, posted a 16 percent increase in  second-quarter profit on Tuesday as client assets rose 23  percent.