ABN Amro receives 71.14-billion euro offer from RBS-led group
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A three-bank consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland on Tuesday launched an official rival bid of 71.14 billion euros (95.64 billion dollars) for Dutch bank ABN Amro, already the target of a friendly takeover by British bank Barclays.
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AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - A consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland  said on Friday it has formally launched its 71.1 billion euro ($98.2 billion) bid for Dutch bank ABN AMRO  as it attempts to beat rival suitor Barclays  to the biggest-ever bank takeover.
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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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AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - ABN AMRO  said on Wednesday it would discuss with Barclays  the implications of a bid proposal this week by the consortium seeking to dislodge Barclays as ABN's preferred merger partner.
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A consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland  said on Friday it had formally launched its 71.1 billion euro ($98.2 billion) bid for Dutch bank ABN AMRO  as it attempts to beat rival suitor Barclays  to the biggest ever bank takeover.
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A 98-billion dollar (71 billion euro) bid for Dutch bank ABN Amro from a three-member consortium led by the Royal Bank of Scotland won the approval Monday of Dutch Finance Minister Wouter Bos.
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A three-bank consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland on Tuesday launched an rival bid for Dutch bank ABN Amro, already the target of a friendly takeover bid by Barclays.
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A trio of banks led by Royal Bank of  Scotland Group  plans to present a new, nearly all cash  bid for Dutch bank ABN AMRO Holding NV  as early as  Monday, according to two media reports on Sunday.
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Shares in Dutch investment bank ABN Amro surged on the Amsterdam stock exchange on Wednesday as investors reacted to a proposal to break up the group.
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British bank Barclays sweetened its takeover bid for Dutch rival ABN Amro on Monday by including a cash element as part of a revised informal offer worth 67.5 billion euros (93.3 billion dollars).
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Dutch bank ABN Amro, at the centre of the biggest takeover in the banking industry, on Sunday confirmed its neutral stance on the rival bids of Barclays and the three-bank consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland.
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ABN Amro, at the centre of the world&#39;s biggest banking takeover bid, said Sunday that a three-bank consortium led by the Royal Bank of Scotland would likely beat a rival offer by Barclays.
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After a group led by the Royal Bank of Scotland raised the cash portion of its offer for ABN, Barclays said it might add cash to its all-share offer.
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Britain's Barclays  has raised its offer for ABN AMRO  to 67.5 billion euros ($93 billion) and included a cash element as it seeks to regain the initiative in the world's biggest bank takeover battle.
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A group led by Royal Bank of Scotland  has doubled its stake in ABN AMRO  to more than 8 percent, cutting the cost of its takeover bid for the bank by about 1 percent, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
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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/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.