Singapore's OCBC to buy Indonesia's Bank Commonwealth

Above $140m deal to bring lender deeper into Southeast Asia's largest economy

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Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. subsidiary OCBC Indonesia will acquire 99% of the issued ordinary shares in PTBC; it also intends to pursue the remaining 1% from other shareholders. (Source photos by Reuters and AP)

DYLAN LOH, Nikkei staff writer

SINGAPORE -- A subsidiary of Singapore's Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. has entered into a deal to buy Indonesia's PT Bank Commonwealth from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, it was announced on Thursday.

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