Short shrift from bankers for FSA’s hostile takeover stance

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Short shrift from bankers for FSA’s hostile takeover stance

The suggestion by the UK’s Financial Services Authority that hostile bank takeovers should be banned in the light of the disastrous experience of RBS’s takeover of parts of ABN Amro in 2007 was met with scepticism by senior bankers this week.

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