NCB Buying Samba Financial Group: Latest News on 2020 Big Takeover - Bloomberg:
National Commercial Bank, Saudi Arabia’s largest lender by assets, agreed to buy rival Samba Financial Group for $15 billion in the biggest banking takeover this year.
NCB will pay 28.45 riyals ($7.58) for each Samba share, based on Thurday’s close, valuing the smaller lender at about 55.7 billion riyals. The kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, the biggest single shareholder in the two banks, will have the largest stake in the combined entity with 37.2%.
The new bank will have total assets of more than $220 billion, creating the Gulf region’s third-largest lender. Its $46 billion market capitalization nearly matches that of Qatar National Bank QPSC, which is still the Middle East’s biggest lender with about $268 billion of assets.
NCB shares rose as much as 3.6% on Monday, the most in over three months, before trimming their increase to 1.3% as of 11:56 a.m. in Riyadh. Samba climbed as much as 3.1% to trade at the highest level since February, before paring its gain to 2.2%.
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