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...Another, the UDC for Teesside was eventually investigated by the UK’s public spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, in 2002....
...The ruling party still secured more than double the seats of the UDC. The case implicating Mr Khama and Ms Motsepe was launched within days of the vote....
...The UDC’s leader, Duma Boko, had promised to take a tougher stance with the company if he had won....
...ANZ New Zealand chief executive David Hisco said the bank will “continue to assess our strategic options regarding the future of UDC, although there is no immediate requirement to do anything”....
...ANZ New Zealand chief executive David Hisco said the bank has been looking at strategic options for UDC, including an IPO....
...HNA subsidiaries connected to TIP-HNA, itself a unit of the conglomerate that was previously designated as the buyer of UDC, made extensive use of share pledging that was not disclosed to the regulator until...
...Concerns over share pledging, high levels of debt and a complicated holding structure led regulators to block HNA Group's acquisition of New Zealand's UDC Finance for NZ$660m ($462m)....
...However, ANZ’s agreement to sell its UDC Finance unit to China’s HNA Group for NZ$660m ($462m) was terminated in January after the deal was blocked by New Zealand regulators....
...If the sale does not proceed, we’ll assess our strategic options regarding the future of UDC....
...ANZ’s sale of UDC was announced in January as part of the bank’s effort to complete A$3bn ($2.3bn) of disposals, mostly in Asia....
...ANZ was off 0.5 per cent after New Zealand declined Chinese conglomerate HNA’s proposed $460m takeover of its UDC Finance unit....
...In a ratings report on New Zealand asset finance group UDC – which HNA is in the process of buying – the ratings agency said that it had cut this credit profile from B+ to B....
...However, the announcement came just after New Zealand’s Overseas Investment Office on Thursday declined HNA’s proposed NZ$660m ($462m) acquisition of UDC Finance, a unit of ANZ Bank, because it could not...
...In December, New Zealand’s Overseas Investment Office blocked HNA’s proposed NZ$660m ($462m) takeover of UDC Finance, a unit of ANZ Bank, because it said it could not verify who controlled the Chinese company...
...On Thursday, the New Zealand’s Overseas Investment Office blocked HNA Group from taking over UDC Finance, a unit of ANZ Bank, because it could not verify who controlled HNA....
...UDC is the asset finance business of the lender’s wholly owned subsidiary ANZ Bank New Zealand....
...In May it bought New Zealand’s biggest finance company, UDC....
...An Ipsos poll this week gave Mr Berlusconi’s coalition a first-round victory with 37.9 per cent, boosted by a decision by Pier Ferdinando Casini to take his small Catholic UDC party out of a centrist alliance...
...Co-operation between the two institutions commenced in 2010, with the launch of a microfinance centre on the UDC campus....
...Pier Ferdinando Casini, leader of the centrist Catholic UDC party who broke with Mr Berlusconi five years ago, claims to have foreseen the retreat. “He is old but not completely gaga,” he commented....
...Some, like the UDC, are resorting to advance payments from banks to meet their daily expenses....
...Pier Ferdinando Casini, whose small centrist UDC party is the direct heir of the Christian Democrats, said: “I think that history will have to give a serene and profound judgment of this man....
...Nevertheless, his deputies provide support in Sicily’s legislature for a minority administration comprised of traditional political parties – the centre-left Democrats and the centrist UDC....
...His main partner, the Catholic UDC party of Pier Ferdinando Casini, has had a chequered past, particularly in Sicily where Salvatore Cuffaro, the island’s former UDC governor, is serving a jail sentence...
...centre-left Democrats and the centrist UDC – that backed Italian logistical intervention....
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