Barclays May Acquire Control of South Africa&#39;s Absa
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Barclays Plc, the UK&#39;s third-biggest lender, may buy control of South African bank Absa Group Ltd. for at least $3 billion to boost its presence in Africa&#39;s biggest economy.
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Barclays, the British bank that left South Africa in 1986 after apartheid protests, may soon resume retail operations in the nation.
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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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The board of South African banking group Absa had accepted a bid for a takeover by Barclays, Britain's third largest bank, Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said.
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China Development Bank and Temasek help with Barclays' bid for ABN.
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Asia focused bank Standard Chartered is eyeing Absa, after Barclays said it was in talks with South Africa&#39;s biggest bank, the Times has reported.
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Transatlantic stock market operator NYSE Euronext has begun an investigation into the trading in shares in Dutch bank ABN Amro that surrounded an announcement that ABN was a takeover target of British bank Barclays, ABN said Tuesday.
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SHANGHAI/BEIJING  - Barclays  has won regulatory approval to buy into a Chinese trust company, securing a foothold in the country's fast-growing asset management sector, two sources familiar with the situation said on Monday.
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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/BEIJING  - British bank Barclays raised its bid for Dutch group ABN AMRO to 67.5 billion euros ($93 billion) on Monday, helped by some of the biggest ever overseas investments by China and Singapore.
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Barclays is close to raising enough  finance to carry out its attempted takeover of the Dutch bank, ABN.
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Apartheid protesters forced bank out 18 years ago. Now it is in talks about buying a Â£2bn stake. Barclays is planning a major return to South Africa by buying a Â£2bn stake in the country&#39;s largest retail
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South Africa&#39;s biggest retail lender Absa says tie-up talks with Barclays have progressed well. Absa ASAJ.J , South Africa&#39;s third-biggest bank in terms of assets, raised
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Britain&#39;s Barclays signaled a return to retail banking in South Africa after 18 years&#39; absence, saying it was in talks to buy a majority of the country&#39;s biggest retail lender Absa.
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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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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 said on Wednesday.
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Barclays will continue its move for ABN Amro despite a share price slump wiping billions off its bid, reports say.