Tuesday, July 17, 2007

UPDATE 1-Barclays 'confident' of winning ABN bid battle

(Reuters) - Seegers declined to comment on a revised bid from a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland announced on Monday, which includes more cash.




Earlier on Tuesday, the Financial Times said that Barclays is planning to sweeten its offer for ABN after the consortium of RBS, Spain's Santander and Belgian-Dutch group Fortis raised the cash portion of its bid to 93 percent from 79 percent, valuing ABN at 71.1 billion euros.


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