US private equity group Lone Star plans to buy German bank IKB, which was one of the country's major casualties in the US subprime mortgage crisis.
Germany's state development bank KfW, the government and private investors rescued the Düsseldorf-based bank from bankruptcy, pumping billions into IKB, which specialises in loans to small- and medium-sized business. KfW sold its 91 percent stake in IKB for an undisclosed sum, believed to No assault charge for Batman Bale ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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