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Korea move

3 September 2007 By Mike Verdin

The global bank s $6.3bn Korea Exchange Bank deal fills an important gap. But the price is higher than it hoped to pay. At 1.8 times book, HSBC is paying the same multiple it could have paid for a whole bank two years ago. This time it only gets a 51% stake.

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