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AB InBev awash with offers for Czech lager

17.06.09
A bevy of private-equity firms are jostling to buy the Czech brewer Staropramen and the rest of the central and eastern European beer interests of the Budweiser and Stella Artois brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev... more

Debenhams raises £323m to tackle its debt mountain

04.06.09
Debt-laden Debenhams today moved to pay off about a third of its £950 million borrowing mountain, raising £323 million from the City ... more

Rio plunges £2 on talk it is about to ditch China deal

04.06.09
It has been a day to remember for two of the Square Mile’s big-hitters, Citigroup and JPMorgan Cazenove, which were busily placing the rump of two recent rights issues ... more

Hamleys' Icelandic owner on brink of going bust

04.02.09
The future of Hamleys, Britain's biggest toy shop and a major London tourist attraction, was thrown into doubt after its owner collapsed into administration ... more

Sovereign funds bid for AIG aircraft unit

27.01.09
Aviation: Embattled insurer American International Group is understood to have found potential buyers for its aircraft leasing unit ... more

JPMorgan in new tilt

16.09.08
Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan Chase is expected to make a new bid for Washington Mutual, the biggest building society in the US, after its credit rating was cut to junk by Standard & Poor’s... more

B&B's backers left holding big stakes after issue flop

22.08.08
Bradford & Bingley came under fresh pressure after the underwriters in its disastrous £400million rights issue were left holding millions of shares... more

Texas Pacific fights for reputation as City rages

04.07.08
Texas Pacific Group was fighting to save its reputation in the City after its boss David Bonderman intervened personally to pull the plug on the deal designed to save Bradford & Bingley... more

Shares in Bradford & Bingley dive as TPG walks away

04.07.08
Shares in Bradford & Bingley plunged 9 per cent after a US private-equity house walked away from a deal to bail out the troubled bank... more

In the lifeboat, but wait for all-clear

04.07.08
There was an audible sigh of relief across the City this morning: at last the authorities seem to have got their act together and quickly and efficiently saved a bank... more

Angry Debenhams hits back at 'going bust' talk

24.06.08
Debenhams has moved to reassure investors it is not going bust, angrily rejecting what chief executive Rob Templeman called "recent inaccurate market rumours and speculation".... more

RBS chiefs 'expect 95% to take up rights issue'

06.06.08
"Solid" show of support from institutional investors means some analysts think figure could be even higher... more

We have every right to be angry with our banks

03.06.08
There is something deeply unsettling about reading of banks in trouble. Other businesses can go under and we don't care - but not banks... more

Banking crisis deepens as B&B struggles

02.06.08
Bradford & Bingley lost money in the first four months of this year, and will miss City profit forecasts by a mile... more

Major banks in new crisis

02.06.08
Britain's banks faced another black Monday as a £4 billion shares sell-off was prompted by a major lender warning of plunging profits... more
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