HBOS in talks to fund Â£8bn Abbey bid
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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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Santander Central Hispano SA, the biggest bank in Spain and Latin America, may drop its 8.2 billion ($14.9 billion) offer to buy Abbey National Plc if rival bids lead to a long competition
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Santander Central Hispano's Â£8.6bn bid for UK lender Abbey will help create a single regional financial market, the European Union's Mario Monti says.
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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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Santander Central Hispano&#39;s Â£8.6bn ($15.3bn) bid for UK lender Abbey will help create a single regional financial market, the European Union (EU) said.
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A trio of media tycoons are plotting a possible takeover bid for the ITV television network.
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British bank HBOS  said profits should rise 4 percent this year but flagged a 180 million-pound ($368 million) hit on the value of assets due to the credit crunch and a squeeze on margins, knocking its shares.
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Private equity group Carlyle is poised to launch an $8 billion bid for Britain's Virgin Media , the cable company whose largest shareholder is Richard Branson, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper said, citing City sources.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- British bank HBOS (UK:HBOS) on Monday was added to Deutsche Bank&#39;s pan-European focus list. It was added &quot;ahead of potential bid for Abbey National (UK:ANL) on basis of very little downside
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The Spanish bank poised to take over Abbey National will walk away if the Â£8.2 billion deal is stalled by competition concerns, it was reported today.
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Banking group HBOS today stayed silent on claims that its bosses will meet this week to finalise plans for a Â£10bn (â¬14.7bn) bid for Abbey National.
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Spanish bank Santander Central Hispano would drop an eight billion pound-plus offer for Abbey National if rival bids result in a drawn-out competition investigation, the Sunday Telegraph reports.
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The UK's largest mortgage lender HBOS says profits will "comfortably exceed" expectations and announces plans to buy back up to Â£750m of shares.
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SPAINâs Banco Santander Central Hispano is conducting a beauty parade of investment banks to sell the life businesses it will acquire as part of its Â£8 billion takeover of Abbey.
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HBOS, based in Edinburgh, said last month it was considering making an offer for Abbey after Santander, Spain s biggest lender, agreed to buy the London-based bank in Europe s biggest-ever cross- border bank ...
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Business & money: Deal could trigger takeover bid for seller Whitbread.
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HBOS has been granted access to sensitive financial information about Abbey National, indicating the seriousness of the UK bank&#39;s intentions towards its rival.