Munich, Germany - Leave it to the French to give this World Cup a sense of deja vu. Zinedine Zidane had been there before, standing behind the penalty spot, with a chance to gain glory for himself and ...

LISBON (Reuters) -U.S. private equity fund Lone Star has decided to sell its 75% stake in Novo Banco to French banking group BPCE in a deal that would value Portugal's fourth-largest lender at around ...

In the latest of a series of cross-border merger dramas, France’s BPCE is acquiring a 75% stake in Portugal’s Novo Banco from US private equity firm Lone Star. The offer values the lender at €6.4bn, ...

Groupe BPCE agreed to buy Novo Banco from majority owner Lone Star in the latest cross-border European banking deal, which values the Portuguese lender at 6.4 billion euros ($7.41 billion). The French ...