Lloyds TSB has agreed the sale of the business and assets of Lloyds TSB Registrars to Advent International for a total cash consideration of £550m. ... [more]

Support services provider Serco Group have announced an unconditionalagreement on the terms its offer for consultancy business Cornwell Management Consultants. The offer will be 40 pence in cash for ... [more]

Financial advisers Bestinvest, one of the UK's largest independent advisers and brokers, is set for a sale or flotation in a move that could see it valued at up to £150m.... [more]

Prudential plc has completed the sale of Egg Banking plc, Prudential’s UK banking business, to Citigroup for £546m, after agreeing a price of £575m in January. A slide in the bank's net asset value du... [more]

Barclays has agreed to buy Dutch bank ABN AMRO for around £45.5bn, in what will be the financial services sector’s largest takeover. ... [more]

Waterman Group announced that it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire Boreham, the consultancy specialising in transport planning, development control and transport studies, for a maxim... [more]

Irish Nationwide building society has started the process of demutualisation, and is expected to be on the market in the next couple of months. The society, which is viewing a trade sale to another in... [more]

Clayton Holdings, the US-listed financial services company, has announced that it is to acquire Bristol-based credit risk consultancy Euro Risk Management Limited. The terms of the deal have not been ... [more]

A significant proportion of Cordea Savills, the fund management operation of Savills estate agency, could soon be put up for sale according to a report. ... [more]

AIM-listed financial intermediary company Prestbury holdings has announced that it is considering a sale following a number of approaches interested in “facilitating the consolidation process”, or ma... [more]

Instant Access Properties, the UK-based property investment company, could be put up for sale for the second time in two years, according to a report.... [more]

British Insurance, the online retailer of payment protection insurance (PPI) policies, is up for sale. Husband and wife team Simon and Sara Burgess said they decided to sell the company in the light o... [more]

Kensington Group Plc, the specialist mortgage lender, has said it is continuing to review its strategic options amid increasing speculation that the business may be sold. Rothschild, the company's adv... [more]

Aviva is to acquire Erasmus, the Dutch insurance company with gross assets of about £650m, from Wustenrot & Wurttembergische.... [more]

Experian has acquired Economic Research Services, the data research company with offices in Newcastle upon Tyne, Leicester, Carlisle and Bristol, for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Debt collectors Equidebt have appointed investment bank NM Rothschild to consider strategic options, it was reported yesterday by the Daily Telegraph. According to the article, this could lead to Equi... [more]

IAF Group is to acquire JP Jenkins, the stockbroker, and the Jenkins business will relocate to IAF's offices in St James, London.... [more]

Begbies Traynor is to acquire Quantum Corporate Finance of Newcastle upon Tyne for undisclosed terms.... [more]

Think Money is being put up for sale by ECI Partners, the mid market buyout group. Think money which includes Gregory Pennington debt management and Freeman Jones is expected to fetch between £100m a... [more]

Marston's is to acquire Sovereign Inns, the Leicester-based chain of 33 tenanted pubs, for £19m.... [more]