Blackstone and Wellcome team up for RBS branches
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US private equity firm Blackstone and charity Wellcome Trust could bid for the 318 branches being sold by Royal Bank of Scotland.
According to a report in the Financial Times over the weekend, Blackstone and Wellcome teamed up to submit a bid for the branches before last Tuesday’s deadline.
Other suitors for the branches, which are understood to be valued at around £2bn, are believed to have come from Santander, National Australia Bank and Virgin Money.
The charity, Britain’s biggest, is also the UK’s largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research.
In January it was reported that Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin and Virgin Money, had approached Blackstone with a view to buying Northern Rock’s “good bank”.
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