Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Investec Agrees to Buy U.K.'s Subprime Bank Kensington for $560 Million

(Bloomberg) -- Investec, a South African private and
investment bank with units in the U.K. and Australia, agreed to buy
Kensington Group Plc for 283 million pounds ($560 million) to
expand its mortgage-backed securities business in Britain.

The offer values each Kensington share at 519.5 pence, a
premium of 6 percent over the London-based bank's closing stock
price yesterday, Johannesburg-based Investec said. Investec offered
0.7 new shares for each Kensington share and a special dividend
from Kensington of 26 pence, based on the value of Investec's
closing stock price of 705 pence yesterday.


Read more at Bloomberg Emerging Markets News

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