The UK's Lloyds Bank is to buy credit card company MBNA from Bank of America, in a deal expected to be completed in the first half of 2017.
Lloyds is 7% owned by the British government and this would be its first acquisition since the 2008 financial crisis.
Our Correspondent in London Natalie Powell reports…
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