2 Big British Insurers in Merger Talks
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Resolution and Friends Provident are in discussions to create a company with a market value of about $17 billion.
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HBOS is said to be in talks with potential financial backers over how to fund an Â£8bn takeover bid for Abbey National in a move to break up a takeover plan from Spain&#39;s Banco Santander Central Hispano.
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Aviva Plc, Britain&#039;s  biggest insurer, is expected to announce a deal to buy U.S.  insurer AmerUs Group Co.  for about &#36;2.9 billion in cash  as early as Thursday, a source close to the situation said.
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Shares in British bank Barclays PLC pushed higher Monday on media reports that it has held merger talks with U.S. banking giant Wells Fargo &amp; Co.
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The British Broadcasting Corp (BBC) has invited three of the world's largest media companies to discuss possible bids for its commercial sales and publishing arm, the Financial Times said.
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Capital Radio Plc and GWR Group Plc&#39;s merger discussions may enlarge the UK&#39;s largest commercial radio broadcaster and create a bigger competitor for Chrysalis Group Plc and Emap Plc.
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British life insurers Resolution  and Friends Provident  confirmed on Monday that they are in advanced merger discussions that could lead to the creation of a group worth over 8 billion pounds ($16.4 billion).
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British insurer Resolution  remained locked in talks with suitor Standard Life  on Friday over a possible 4.9 billion pound ($10.05 billion) takeover as a key midday bid deadline looms.
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Waterford Wedgwood and Royal Doulton - two of the grandest but most troubled names in the ceramics world - revealed yesterday they were engaged in merger talks.
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LONDON, England -- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has invited media giants Time Warner, Bertelsmann and Walt Disney to discuss possible bids for its commercial sales and publishing arm, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
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Falling milk prices, evaporating European Union subsidies and tougher demands by supermarket chains yesterday nudged two of Europe&#39;s leading dairy companies into the biggest merger in the continent&#39;s dairy industry.
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German banking and insurance giant Allianz said Wednesday it has sold its the life insurance activities of its British unit Allianz Cornhill to rival group Britannic for 110 million pounds (about 159 million ...
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Nationwide, Britain's biggest mutually-owned bank, is to merge with smaller rival Portman, to create a new financial services group with more than 150 billion pounds (221 billion euros, 281 billion dollars) in assets.
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Telecommunications companies Swisscom AG and Telekom Austria AG are in talks over a possible merger, Swisscom said.
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An American and a British law firm, both of which have expanded rapidly, announced a merger yesterday to form one of the largest corporate law firms.
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British insurance group Resolution faced a bidding war on Friday as Pearl Assurance trumped an agreed bid from Standard Life.
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Slow sales and slashed workforces have reportedly prompted executives from the two ailing auto giants to talk about an alliance - or even a merger