The apex bank increased the new minimum capital for commercial banks with international affiliations, otherwise known as mega banks, to N500 billion; commercial banks with national authorisation ...

Two weeks ago, Abbey National rejected the bid, saying it would not be in shareholders' best interests. News of Bank of Ireland's retreat came hours after Abbey National said it had appointed former ...

Shares in the UK's sixth largest bank, Abbey National, have soared on the news that it has received a takeover approach from the Bank of Ireland. A merger between the two companies would create Europe ...

The apex bank increased the new minimum capital for commercial banks with international affiliations, otherwise known as mega banks, to N500 billion; commercial banks with national authorisation ...

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Santander Central Hispano, the largest bank in Spain and Latin America, is near an agreement to buy Abbey National of Britain for about $15 billion, people familiar with the matter said. A ...

Earlier, the Bank of Ireland revealed details of the informal takeover offer it made last week. The deal offered shareholders £1.30 sterling (€2.03) a share and valued Abbey National at €16.3 ...

ABBEY National, Britain's sixth-biggest bank, has once again rebuffed Bank of Ireland, which yesterday published details of its (pounds) 10.3bn cash-and- shares offer that would almost certainly ...

LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Banks gained in London Friday after Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano confirmed it made an approach for Abbey National. Abbey National (ANL), the U.K.'s sixth-largest bank ...

U.K. bank Abbey National on Wednesday confirmed plans for "a radical shift in strategy" to separate out its U.K. personal finance business from the rest of its loss-making businesses. It said the ...

Abbey National, the high street bank seeking to take over Bank of Scotland (BoS), has launched a charm offensive to try to convince the City that Ian Harley, Abbey's chief executive, should run ...