TMX would provide.
Maple said it has set aside C$310 million under its debtcommitment letter to help fund the Alpha and CDS acquisitions.
($1=$0.98 Canadian) (Reporting by Euan Rocha; editing by Peter Galloway)
(Adds items on RBS and France Telecom)
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* Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) is preparing to sell largeportfolios of real estate debt in Germany and America as itcontinues to dispose of non-core businesses, the Financial Timesreported on Monday. [ID:nLDE73H0DY]
* France Telecom (FTE.PA) will convert 4 billion euros ($5.8billion) of loans to its Orange unit in Spain into shares toimprove financial costs at the division, Expansion cited themercantile register as saying. [ID:nLDE73H053]
* China's regulators want commercial banks to replenishcapital by using retained profit or other methods beforeconsidering additional share sales
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* Samsung Electronics Co (005930.KS) may be looking to sellits hard disk drive business for $1.5 billion and SeagateTechnology (STX.O) is one potential buyer, the Wall StreetJournal reported on Sunday. [ID:nL3E7FH0IR]
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* British mortgage provider Paragon Group (PARA.L) isweighing a bid for a 6 billion pound ($9.8 billion) block ofhome loans being sold by an offshoot of Irish Life & Permanent(IPM.I), the Sunday Times reported. [ID:nLDE73G06Q]
* China Investment Corp, the sovereign wealth fund, is intalks to buy the European headquarters of Citigroup (C.N),Britain's third-tallest building, the Mail on Sunday newspaperreported. [ID:nLDE73G0A1]
* Tokyo Electric Power Co (9501.T) plans to sell its sharesin KDDI Corp (9433.T) to help pay for compensation costsstemming from the disaster at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclearpower plant, a newspaper reported. [ID:nL3E7FH002]
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