CSOB - CESKOSLOVENSKA OBOCHODNI BANKA, the Czech subsidiary of the Belgian Flemish financial group KBC, has acquired the third largest Czech bank (including assets and liabilities) IPB - INVESTICNI A POSTOVNI BANKA, which is on the brink of bankruptcy. IPB (180 agencies, 3 million clients and a 20% market share in the deposit field), of which about 46% has belonged since March 1998 to the Japanese group NOMURA, was placed under the guardianship of the Czech national bank at the end of last...