Bloomberg:

Barclays Plc, the U.K.’s third- biggest bank, will acquire the North American investment-banking business of bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. for $1.75 billion, two days after abandoning plans to buy the entire firm.

The London-based bank is paying $250 million in cash for the Lehman businesses and $1.5 billion for the securities firm’s New York headquarters and two data centers, it said in a statement on its Web site today. The operations employ about 10,000 people, almost two-fifths of Lehman’s total.

Barclays President Robert Diamond seized on what he called a “once in a lifetime opportunity” to buy a business that ranks seventh in advising on U.S. mergers.

Quanto à AIG e também via Bloomberg, haveria seguradoras alemãs interessadas em adquirir parte dos seus negócios.
Numa notícia de ontem:

Munich Re Chief Executive Officer Nikolaus von Bomhard said he is interested in acquiring parts of New York-based American International Group Inc., Handelsblatt reported.

Munich Re may want to buy AIG’s primary-insurance operations in eastern Europe and its industrial insurance business, von Bomhard told the newspaper.

Numa notícia de hoje, já depois de conhecida a intervenção do FED no valor de 85 mil milhões de dólares:

Allianz SE, Europe’s largest insurer, made an offer to invest in American International Group Inc. that was rejected by the U.S. insurer two days before it accepted a government takeover, said two people with knowledge of the bid.