Bär's share price plummeted once the IWM deal became public; to alleviate shareholder concerns about dilution, on August 20th Bär reduced the size of a planned rights issue.
The most significant resolutions related to INM's planned rights issue to raise funds to complete the repayment of a €200m bond.
This raises lots of questions and problems, the chief one being that the Co-op Group may not want to take part in the planned rights issue.
Agricole's planned rights issue is the latest capital raising exercise from a global banking sector damaged by losses in the U.S. subprime mortgage market.
The official reason for the planned rights issue of 8 billion to 9 billion euros ($10 billion to $11 billion) will be to complete the acquisition of Postbank, the German retail bank.
Regulators and the Treasury soothed investors, saying they would not let Fannie and Freddie fail.Bradford & Bingley, a troubled British bank, saw its share price fall below the price of a planned rights issue.
