Sunday, April 22, 2007

UPDATE 1-LaSalle would plug Chicago gap for Bank of America

(Reuters) - NEW YORK, April 22 - If Bank of America pulls off a deal to buy Chicago-based retail bank LaSalle, it will fill in one of the last remaining gaps in nationwide coverage for the second-largest U.S. bank.

Plans to sell LaSalle to Bank of America will be announced as early as Monday as part of a wider deal which would see Barclays Plc take over Dutch bank ABN AMRO , sources familiar with the situation said.


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