Barclays investors back ABN bid
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Barclays Bank wins the backing of most of its investors to go ahead with its takeover of Dutch rival ABN Amro.
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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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Barclays PLC , attempting to wrest ABN Amro Holding NV from a competing offer by Royal Bank of Scotland Group, raised its bid to $93.4 billion after lining up investments from China and Singapore.
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Shares in UK banking group Barclays rise on Monday after a weekend press report said it had held merger talks with Wells Fargo.
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Business & money: Stakes raised in battle for control of ABN Amro as Royal Bank of Scotland-led consortium trumps Barclays' offer for Dutch bank.
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Dutch bank ABN AMRO  can proceed with its sale of U.S. unit LaSalle, the Dutch Supreme Court said, boosting the prospect that Barclays  will succeed in its near $90 billion takeover bid for ABN.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Barclays will raise its offer for ABN Amro to $93.2 billion, with help from two Asian financial partners, in the face of a rival bid led by the Royal Bank of Scotland, the British bank said Monday.
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Dutch bank ABN AMRO can go ahead with its $21 billion sale of U.S. subsidiary LaSalle Bank to Bank of America, the Dutch Supreme Court said on Friday, boosting the chance that Barclays could succeed in its all-share bid to buy ABN for 64 billion euros ($88 billion).
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Barclays&#39; share price rose on Friday after Britain&#39;s third biggest bank denied it is facing liquidity problems despite being forced to borrow 1.6 billion pounds (2.4 billion euros, 3.2 billion dollars) from the Bank of England.
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Barclays called in two state-backed Asian financial powerhouses on Monday to strengthen its offer for ABN Amro amid a European bidding battle for the Dutch bank worth nearly 100 billion dollars.
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ABN AMRO stuck to its neutral stance on Sunday on competing takeover bids for the Dutch bank, saying it could not support a break-up under the financially superior RBS-led consortium's bid.
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The Dutch government&#39;s legal representative to the supreme court issued an opinion Tuesday potentially favorable to a bid by British bank Barclays for ABN Amro, a Dutch banking giant also courted by the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - British bank Barclays's hopes of taking over Dutch rival ABN AMRO won a boost on Tuesday when a court adviser said ABN could sell its U.S. arm without a shareholder vote.
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British bank Barclays says it will table a formal Â£45bn offer for Dutch bank ABN Amro within six weeks.
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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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Britain's Barclays will press ahead with its recommended 63bn euro offer for ABN Amro despite pressure from dissenting investors.
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ABN AMRO  stuck to its  neutral stance on Sunday on competing takeover bids for the  Dutch bank, saying it could not support a break-up under the  financially superior RBS-led  consortium&#39;s bid.