Aviva has confirmed it is to buy rival insurer Friends Life in a deal worth £5.6bn which will create a combined business with 16 million customers.
Aviva said it had reached agreement on key financial terms, adding the combined businesses would create the "UK's leading insurance, savings and asset management business". It also said the deal...
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