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AIG Buys Popular’s Equity One for $1.5 Billion 

Jan 23, 2008By

AIG unit American General Finance, Inc. will purchase Equity One, the U.S. consumer finance operations of Puerto Rico-based Popular, Inc., in a deal worth $1.5 billion. The sale includes “a signficant portion” of Equity One’s mortgage loan and consumer loan portfolio, Popular said in a press statement Wednesday morning. “We are doing the things we have to do in the U.S. mainland as we focus on our core banking franchise,” said Richard L. Carrion, CEO at Popular.

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