Michael Mauritz News
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Alpine Holding GmbH’s bonds tumbled as the construction company said it’s proving hard to sell assets, undermining restructuring plans.
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Erste Group Bank AG may have to abandon using affiliated savings banks to bolster its reserves under the European Union’s proposed implementation of global capital rules.
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The Institute of International Finance, which lobbies on behalf of banks, is pressing members that hold Greek government debt to support a rescue package amid concern it may not reach its 90 percent participation target.
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Erste Group Bank AG still aims to pay back 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion) of state capital as soon as talks with supervisors about the refund are concluded and will update on the status at the end of next month.
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Erste Group Bank AG, UniCredit Bank Austria AG and Raiffeisen Bank International AG were downgraded by Moody’s Investors Service on their eastern Europe business and as Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis weighs on Austria’s biggest lenders.
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The Canadian government has given the country’s Wheat Board four years to come up with a plan to become a private company or cooperative under legislation that would end the board’s monopoly on marketing wheat and barley.
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Erste Stiftung, the foundation that owns 24.8 percent of Erste Group Bank AG, may sell 150 million euros ($183 million) of shares this year to pay off debt, Erste Stiftung said in its annual report.
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Alior Bank SA’s main shareholder, Carlo Tassara SpA, is working with UBS AG to sell at least 30 percent of the bank that held Poland’s biggest initial public offering last year, three people familiar with the matter said.
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Commerzbank AG, Germany’s second- largest bank, had its credit rating cut one level as Europe’s deepening debt crisis prompted Moody’s Investors Service to downgrade seven lenders in the nation and three in Austria.
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Global regulators may expand the definition of a too-big-to-fail financial firm, signing up domestic lenders, clearing houses and insurers to capital rules designed for the world’s biggest banks.
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