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SINGAPORE - TEMASEK Holdings said Malaysia's largest bank, Maybank , did not complete a plan to buy the Singapore sovereign fund's 55.5 per cent stake in Bank Internasional Indonesia (BII).
The statement on Friday did not make clear if Maybank had drawn the final curtain on the US$2.7 billion (S$3.7 billion) deal, which drew rebuke from analysts who said Malaysian lender was overpaying.
Shares of Maybank have risen after the Malaysian central bank blocked its plan to buy the controlling stake in BII.
Maybank told analysts on Wednesday that it will lose a deposit of about RM480 million (S$201.4 million) if the regulatory issue is not resolved by September.
Temasek said the deadline for completion of the deal expired on Thursday.
'The BII transaction had been scheduled for completion on July 31. Unfortunately, completion did not take place because, according to Maybank, there was no Bank Negara's approval for the transaction,' Temasek said.
Maybank in March said it would buy 55.5 per cent stake in Indonesia's sixth-biggest lender BII for US$1.5 billion from Temasek and South Korea's Kookim and will make a tender offer for the rest, valuing the deal at US$2.7 billion.
The acquisitions was priced at about 4.6 times book value, double Maybank's 2.3 and compared with Indonesian No. 1 Bank Mandiri's 1.98. -- REUTERS
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