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CITIGROUP ACQUIRES KORAM BANK.

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SEOUL, May 3 Asia Pulse - Citigroup, the world's biggest financial service company, said Friday it has succeeded in its bid to take over KorAm Bank (KSE:016830), South Korea's seventh-largest lender.

The U.S. financial giant secured 97.5 per cent of the Korean bank, including a 36.6-percent stake acquired from the bank's largest shareholder, the Carlyle Group, and 60.9 per cent secured through a tender offer, it said.

With the success in obtaining over an 80-percent stake in KorAm Bank, Citigroup is to buy the stocks from Carlyle at 15,500 won (US$13.4) each, the same price designated in the ...

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