(EU) Banks: CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON (net revenue of USD 1.26 billion in 1999 with 16,000 employees), business bank of CREDIT SUISSE GROUP, second largest Swiss bank, announced the acquisition of the American business bank DLJ - DONALDSON, LUFKIN, JENRETTE (profits of USD 407.4 million in the first quarter 2000 with 120,000 employees), for USD 11.5 billion. The assets managed by the Swiss bank will thus rise from 722 billion to 842 billion dollars. The French insurer AXA, which controls the American bank through its American subsidiary AXA FINANCIAL, will sell its share for a total of USD 8.1 billion. Then, CREDIT SUISSE GROUP will launch in the United States a public tender offering for some 29% of the shares in DLJ that will be in the public domain. At the same time, AXA announced that it was launching a take-over on the minority interests of AXA FINANCIAL that it present controls at 60,3%, an offer placing a value on each AXA FINANCIAL share at 53.5 dollars.