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...For US Bancorp, the deal creates a group with combined assets of $665bn and gives it access to MUFG Union Bank’s 300 branches in the US....
...But the market is changing and a lot of the smaller ones like the credit unions are going digital....
...It's great:If you too are fed up with this I N N O V A T I O N, we encourage you to stop buying ICOs and IEOs (as well as donating to crypto ““non-profits””) put forth on behalf of a myriad of young idiots...
...Pilot union BALPA says it’ll be “fighting for every single job”, saying IAG hasn’t made a strong case for the job losses and calling the news “a bolt out of the blue”....
...EU v Poland latest Brussels has opened a new front in its battle with Warsaw, launching infringement proceedings related to the country's contested supreme court overhaul (FT)....
...union in the eurozone....
...(Financial Times) Sweden’s Hakon Invest is acquiring the 60 per cent of shares it doesn’t own in Nordic food retailer ICA AB for 20 billion Swedish kronor ($3.1 billion) from Royal Ahold N.V....
...MUFG this week acquired a small US bank, Pacific Capital, which will bulk out its existing Californian subsidiary Union Bank of California, in a $1.5bn deal struck with US billionaire Gerald J Ford....
...), the magazine n+1 has come of age....
...The gates are barricaded to prevent a dispute over workers’ union representation from getting violent. India has the highest inflation in any major emerging market....
..., the German chemicals group (20 per cent), E.ON Ruhrgas, the Germany utility, (20 per cent) and N.V.Nederlandse Gasunie, the Dutch energy group (9 per cent)....
...Fitch has also affirmed the Long- and Short-term IDRs of the five Fortis holding companies: Fortis SA/NV, Fortis N.V., Fortis Brussels, Fortis Utrecht and Fortis Insurance NV., at ‘BBB+’ and ‘F2′ respectively...
...The sharp drop in profitability came after MUFG bought a 21% stake in Morgan Stanley for $9bn and spent $3.6bn to take full control of Union Bank of California....
...MUFG said it had won the approval of the Union Bank board after it sweetened its offer by about 17% to $73.50 a share from an initial $58 a share, valuing the 25th-largest US bank at about $10.1bn....
...Mitsubishi UFJ Group on Tuesday offered $3bn to buy the remaining 35% in Union Bank of California it does not already own, in a move aimed at giving Japan’s largest lender a greater presence in the US....
...investment to take full control of Union Bank of California....
...MUFG recently paid $3.5bn to take 100 per cent control of Union Bank of California, in which it already had a 65 per cent holding....
...MUFG, for example, spent $3.5bn to raise its stake in Union Bank of California from 65 to 100 per cent....
...Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group suffered a setback in its $3bn bid to take 100 per cent control of Union Bank of California after a committee set up to advise minority shareholders on the offer rejected the...
...The new offer, which is a 26 per cent premium to Union Bank’s closing price the day before MUFG’s initial offer, values Union Bank at 2.3 times book value....
...Mitsubishi UFJ Group yesterday offered $3bn to buy the remaining 35 per cent in Union Bank of California it does not already own, in a move aimed at giving Japan’s largest lender a greater presence in the...
...In Polaris, to the north of the city, a defunct Linens ’n Things store has been occupied by Big Lots, a retailer of remaindered lines, rather than standing empty. Certainly, some still struggle....
...Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank agreed to provide funding for the deal....
...MUFG has a 65 per cent stake in Union Bank of California, a retail bank, which generates more than half of the Japanese bank’s overseas revenues....
...Given the high likelihood that global growth remains weak throughout 2008 and into 2009 with little chance of a “V” shaped recovery, spreads could remain under pressure....
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