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Lone Star rides in to rescue IKB

By James Wilson in Frankfurt

Published: August 21 2008 08:27 | Last updated: August 21 2008 22:19

Germany drew a line under one of its biggest banking crises on Thursday as it revealed a deal to sell IKB, the lender stricken by subprime investments, to a US investment group.

Lone Star is acquiring more than 90 per cent of IKB from KfW, the German state-owned development bank, for an undisclosed “low three-figure” sum.

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