Danske buys two banks from NAB
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Denmark's largest bank is to buy a Belfast-based and Dublin-based bank from National Australian Bank for Â£967m.
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Swiss-based banking giant UBS AG has agreed to buy Charles Schwab Corp.&#39;s capital markets unit for $265 million in cash, making UBS a leading
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The Danske Bank Group has signed an agreement with National Australia Bank to purchase Northern Bank (www.nbonline.co.uk) in Northern Ireland and National Irish Bank (www.
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire  Hathaway Inc(BRKa.N)(BRKb.N), in its second acquisition this  week, agreed to buy the NRG NV reinsurance unit of ING Group NV   for about 300 million euros ($441 million).
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After a two-month search for a buyer, the National Australia Bank announced Tuesday that the Danske Bank Group of Denmark, one of Scandinavia&#39;s largest banks, would acquire
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The pound was firmer, hitting 1.9846 usd at one point -- its highest level this year, on news of a major stock market acquisition and as markets scaled back their interest rate cut expectations. Scottish & Newcastle, the UK's largest brewer, announced it has agreed to be bought by Carlsberg and Heineken, for around 7.6 billion pounds.
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UBS continued to sweep up private banking assets yesterday with the purchase of the North America wealth management business of Julius Baer, the Swiss private bank.
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Deutsche Bank, the biggest bank in Germany, is interested in buying Abbey Life -- the direct insurance unit of Lloyds TBS estimated to be worth 1.38 billion euros (1.9 billion dollars) -- the Financial Times Deutschland reported Monday.
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Shareholders of Deutsche Bank AG&#39;s three Australian real estate investment trusts approved aA$3.3 billion ($2.4 billion) merger of the funds and a plan to buy $1 billion of US industrial property assets.
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The owners of the Northern Bank have confirmed for the first time that it may be on the market. The National Australia Bank has said it will consider selling its operations on both sides of the Irish border.
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Continuing its assault on the European IT outsourcing market, IBM Corp. has signed agreements to buy two Danish IT services companies and another to provide IT services to one of the country's largest banks.
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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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GENEVA/NEW YORK  - Swiss-based banking giant UBS  AG has agreed to buy Charles Schwab Corp.'s capital markets  unit for $265 million in cash, making UBS a leading player on  the U.S. Nasdaq exchange, the companies said on Tuesday.
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International Business Machines said Tuesday it would buy two Danish competitors to add consulting services for shipping and logistics companies.
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SYDNEY: National Australia Bank Ltd (NAB), Australia&#39;s biggest bank, is gauging buyer interest for its struggling Irish banks, signalling that it is prepared to exit part of its European market.
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European stocks gained, paced by banks. HBOS Plc and Deutsche Bank AG rose. The Dow Jones Stoxx 50 Index rose 0.3 percent to 2694.
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ING, the Dutch bank which bought Baring in 1995 for Â£1 after rogue trader Nick Leeson ran up losses of more than Â£800m, ending its use of the Baring name.