Lloyds Banking Rejects Barclay Family GBP1 Billion Offer for The Telegraph, FT Reports
-- Lloyds Banking Group rejected a 1 billion-pound ($1.22 billion) offer for British newspaper The Telegraph from the Barclay family, which was backed by Middle Eastern investors, the Financial Times reports citing unnamed sources.
-- The U.K. lender placed the paper--which owes it GBP1.1 billion in debt--into receivership in June. Lloyds told the Barclay family to repay the debt with a transparently-funded offer or bid in a continuing auction, the FT reports.
-- Lloyds Banking Group didn't respond to a request for comment by Dow Jones Newswires.
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