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JPMorgan Group to Buy Southern Water from Royal Bank of Scotland

I found an interesting article from NewsVisual examining the corporate ties between JPMorgan and RBS that may have given them an added advantage in outbidding rival bidders www.newsvisual.com/new... . This could have been a possibility, they managed to outbid a consortium from Goldman Sachs.

RBS Consortium Doubles Stake in ABN Amro

This is not surprising given that RBS and ABN Amro share such strong corporate connections (see article and Knowledge Map from NewsVisual www.newsvisual.com/new... ). Although this deal seemed a bit shakey at times, due to the connections I always thought that in the end it would go through.