{"id":34826,"date":"2013-04-09T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T12:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=34826"},"modified":"2013-04-09T08:38:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T12:38:27","slug":"hedge-funds-that-shorted-banks-in-talks-to-back-1bn-rbs-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2013\/hedge-funds-that-shorted-banks-in-talks-to-back-1bn-rbs-bid.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds that shorted banks &#8216;in talks to back \u00a31bn RBS bid&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph &#8211; Two hedge funds that made millions of pounds shorting UK bank shares during the financial crisis are in talks to back a \u00a31bn bid for more than 300 RBS branches, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>GLG, part of Man Group, and Lansdowne are believed to be among more than 20 companies interested in making an offer for the 316-strong network.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/newsbysector\/banksandfinance\/9980514\/Hedge-funds-that-shorted-banks-in-talks-to-back-1bn-RBS-bid.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph &#8211; Two hedge funds that made millions of pounds shorting UK bank shares during the financial crisis are in talks to back a \u00a31bn bid for more than 300 RBS branches, according to reports. GLG, part of Man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34828,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34826\/revisions\/34828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}