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...valuations for the business proved, in hindsight, to be ahead of the reality. Today, people are not looking into a 'new paradigm,'" Pereira says. "There's a bubble-effect risk in some sectors, but it's a very different environment." Daniel Fermon, senior European strategist for French bank Société Générale points out that some companies today are very publicly balking at prices they believe unreasonable; he cites the decision in September by French advertising giant Publicis not to raise its $2.8 billion bid for British media-buying company Aegis. KPMG's Barrett concurs...
...heralded as revolutionary. Caisse d'Epargne's promise to pay 0.5% to 1% interest on its roughly 4.5 million current accounts make it the first major bank in France to exploit last month's regulation changes quashing 70-year-old laws banning certain charges and payments. So far banks Société Générale, BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole all say they will not follow suit until customers express interest of their own. It may be a long wait. Though the French wrote 4 billion checks on 57 million current accounts last year...
...Parisians that tap water is a healthy alternative to bottled mineral water, the company that manages the capital's water supply has renamed itself Eau de Paris, and is offering residents downloadable labels extolling its product's virtues. The new name is certainly more glamorous than the old one, Société Anonyme de Gestion des Eaux de Paris - but what's next: Eau de Cologne...
...beginning of cross-border banking mergers in the euro zone," says Francesco Giavazzi, an economist at Milan's Bocconi University. If anything, Giavazzi says, Santander's move in Britain demonstrates how many barriers remain to such transnational deals. Santander had already been blocked from taking over France's Société Générale in 1999 because the bid came from abroad. When Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria tried to merge with Italy's UniCredito Italiano the same year, Italy's regulator, too, balked at the idea of an Italian bank falling into foreign hands...
...Much Of An Insider A Paris court found famed financier George Soros guilty of insider trading, and fined him €2.2 million. The charge stems from Soros' role in the 1988 takeover of the French bank Société Générale. Soros had denied having privileged knowledge...