The French retail bank will buy the Portuguese lender from its majority owner Lone Star in the latest cross-border deal in European banking.

France’s BPCE has agreed a 6.4 billion euros ($7.39 billion) deal to acquire Portugal's Novo Banco, including a 75% stake held by U.S. private equity firm Lone Star, BPCE and Lone Star said on Friday.

French banking group BPCE has agreed to buy US private equity fund Lone Star's 75% stake in Novo Banco in a deal that values Portugal's fourth-largest bank at €6.4 billion, following a wave of consolidation in European banking.