VENTURE CAPITAL POST

The chief executive of Deutsche Bank's (DBKGn.DE) retail arm Postbank (DPBGn.DE) strongly advocates having Deutsche sell a large portion of Postbank's shares on the stock market rather than to another bank, a German magazine reported on Saturday.

Spain's Santander (SAN.MC) said it was not considering buying out the 28 percent of its U.S. auto finance business that is currently listed on the stock market after Bloomberg reported earlier on Tuesday the Spanish bank was mulling such a move.

Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS.MI) will tap investors for up to 2.5 billion euros next year to fill a capital deficit laid bare by recent stress tests and pay back state aid in a move bankers said would prepare the Italian lender for a likely takeover.

The Financial Times reported two banks divested trade finance assets amounting to $1 billion in a securitization that would get these assets to institutional investors from bank balance sheets.

Spain's bank restructuring fund FROB on Monday announced that it had received six binding offers for a majority stake in bailed-out bank NCG Banco. Banks and private equity firms from Spain, Venezuela and US reportedly eye the NCG stake.

Belfast-based scientific camera maker Andor Technology has finally agreed to a GBP176 million takeover bid from Oxford Instruments after five months of stalemate between the two firms.

On Monday, Spain’s Santander said that it had agreed to buy a 51% stake in the largest consumer finance business from El Corte Ingles.

Bank Zachodni posted a record high on its quarterly profit that beat predictions from six analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.

Bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies.