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...de la Empresa Familiar and the Family Business Clubs of prestigious global MBA programmes, such as Harvard Business School, Insead and LBS....
...It will be tricky to generate hype for, say, Spain’s Bankia or Banca Civica....
...privatisation of the lottery company Loterías y Apuestas del Estado....
...In December, it emerged that JC Flowers, the private equity vehicle of US financier Christopher Flowers, had backed away from a tentative deal to buy €450m of convertible bonds in Banca Cívica, the combined...
...As the wire stated (emphasis FT Alphaville’s): Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) — Instituto de Credito Oficial, a Spanish government agency that lends to businesses, increased the yield on its 1 billion-euro ($1.4 billion...
...A defensive alliance with Gaz de France , up 9 per cent to €29.80, against Enel is being considered by the two French companies....
...Banca Intesa gained 1.5 per cent to €4.155 after Citigroup raised its price target to €4.70 from €4.60 on hopes that the Italian bank would hit its earnings targets earlier than expected....
...Acciona fell 2 per cent to €77.35 while Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas dropped 3 per cent to €45.71 on analyst reports that the sector may have peaked....
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