Santander to sell up to 79 million RBS shares
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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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The French bank offered millions of new shares to investors at a fire-sale price Monday, seeking to replace the more than $7 billion it lost in a trading scandal.
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SPAIN&#39;S Banco Santander Central Hispano yesterday revealed plans to speed up its Â£8.4bn bid for Abbey in an apparent effort to thwart interest from other possible bidders.
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Santander Central Hispano SA, Spain&#39;s largest bank, said Francisco Gomez-Roldan will replace Luqman Arnold as chief executive officer of Abbey National Plc, the UK mortgage lender it&#39;s buying for 9.1 billion pounds ($16.
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Santander Central Hispano SA aims to complete its 8.3 billion pounds ($15 billion) purchase of Abbey National Plc by November, the Financial Times said, citing Juan Inciarte, Santander&#39;s director for Europe and consumer finance.
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Spain&#39;s Santander Central Hispano plans to raise an initial 1 billion pounds from the sale of closed-life books owned by Abbey National, the Sunday Times says.
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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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Santander, Spain's biggest bank, said Friday it had agreed to sell its headquarters in Madrid to a consortium led by British real estate firm Propinvest for 1.9 billion euros (2.8 billion US dollars).
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Santander Central Hispano SA, the largest bank in Spain and Latin America, almost doubled third- quarter profit on gains at its European consumer lending business and from selling a stake in Royal Bank of ...
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Santander Central Hispano SAN.MC is expected to announce that headcount at Abbey National ANL.L will drop by no more than 4,500 if it succeeds with its takeover, a source familiar with the situation says.
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The consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland raised the cash component of its offer to 93 percent from 79 percent.
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A European banking consortium under Royal Bank of Scotland, locked in a takeover battle for Dutch group ABN Amro, said Monday it was raising the cash portion of its 71.1-billion-euro bid from 79 to 93 percent.
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LONDON/AMSTERDAM  - A consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland on Monday kept its offer to buy Dutch bank ABM AMRO at 71.1 billion euros ($97.9 billion) but raised the amount of cash it is offering after having to exclude ABN's U.S. arm from the purchase.
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British banking giant Royal Bank of Scotland is in talks to buy 19.9 percent of Suzhou Trust in China, its latest attempt to ramp up its position in the Chinese market, state media said Wednesday.
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Spanish Bank Santander Central Hispano intends to cut about 3,000 jobs at Britain&#39;s Abbey National if its proposed acquisition of the British bank is completed.
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Santander, the Spanish bank bidding Â£8bn for the UK's Abbey, is selling half its stake in rival Royal Bank of Scotland.
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Embattled British bank Northern Rock  is preparing for a sell-off that could see its 100 billion pound ($200.6 billion) mortgage portfolio divided between the country's other major banks, the Sunday Telegraph said.