A consortium of public banks has made a bid with the Land of Berlin for partial acquisition of the semi-public bank in difficulty, BGB - BANKGESELLSCHAFT BERLIN. The consortium includes, above all, the State-owned bank NORDLB, which is already a shareholder of BANKGESELLSCHAFT and the HASPA savings bank. The partners have also proposed that the town-State of Berlin, the main BANKGESELLSCHAFT shareholder with 57% of the capital, should join the project. The town, however, is also negotiating with American FLOWERS, which has made a competing bid for partial entry into the bank's capital. We recall that BANKGESELLSCHAFT BERLIN, which is confronted by serious financial difficulties, had announced at the end of August that it would resort to a capital increase in order to come out of the impasse.