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Close buys Zurich deposit book
Financial group Close Brothers is buying a £300m deposit book from Zurich Financial’s Dunbar Bank unit, helping improve Close Brothers’ short-term funding needs. Close Brothers said it was paying a premium of £1.5m for the assets. It added that the acquisition would have a neutral effect on its earnings for 2011 but would have a small, positive impact on 2012 earnings.