Market Chatter -- Corporate finance press digest

BANGALORE Oct 19 (Reuters) - The following corporate finance-related stories were reported by media on Monday:

* CME Group Inc (CME.O), the world's largest derivatives exchange, is in talks to take over the Chicago Board Options Exchange in a deal that would value the largest U.S. options market at up to $5 billion, according to Crain's Chicago Business. [ID:nN18347506]

* General Electric Co (GE.N) and Vivendi SA (VIV.PA) are about $500 million apart in talks over what Vivendi should be paid for its NBC Universal stake, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. [ID:nN18335151]

* Kazakh miner Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) (ENRC.L) is planning to buy out its founders' African assets, in exchange for increasing their ownership in the company, The Independent on Sunday reported. [ID:nLI608603]

* Citigroup Inc (C.N) is considering listing its Brazilian or Latin American units to raise cash for expansion, Valor Economico newspaper said on Friday. [ID:nN16340851]

* Telco, the holding company that owns 24.5 percent of Telecom Italia (TLIT.MI), is mulling a 2.6 billion euro ($3.88 billion) bond as its shareholders agree a renewal of their pact for three years, newspaper reports said on Saturday. [ID:nLH480868]

* Swiss bank UBS AG (UBSN.VX) (UBS.N) warned U.S. customers by registered mail their account details may be given to U.S. tax authorities, a method that could itself breach secrecy laws, a Swiss paper said on Sunday. [ID:nLI319952]

* Dutch bank DSB is seeking a state capital injection of 100 million euros as part of a rescue plan also involving the conversion of savings deposits into stock, after talks with a potential U.S. buyer broke down.

In a statement, DSB said on Sunday the company could continue operations if it secured a conversion of a "large amount" of savings deposits and a capital injection from the Dutch state of 100 million euros, news agency ANP reported. [ID:nLI712300]

* German industrial group ThyssenKrupp (TKAG.DE) will shed as many as 20,000 more jobs in its current fiscal year as it cuts costs amid what could be a long economic slump, its chief executive was quoted as saying in an interview published by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Saturday. [ID:nLG396788]

* British banks could face "regulatory arbitrage" if UK regulators impose tougher bonus and capital requirements than regulators in other countries, the chairman of Barclays (BARC.L) told the Financial Times. [ID:nLI398625]

* Kraft Foods Inc (KFT.N) is in talks to sell its Maxwell House coffee business to Sara Lee Corp (SLE.N) in a move that would give it more money to increase its bid for Cadbury Plc CBRY.L, the New York Post reported on Friday, citing one source. [ID:nN16131202] (Compiled by Tresa Sherin Morera; Editing by Lincoln Feast)