April 13 (Reuters) - Britain's Legal & General Group PLC and Swiss Re AG are among firms said to beweighing bids for Deutsche Bank AG's Abbey LifeAssurance Co, sources familiar with the matter said.
In September, Reuters reported that the German lender wasweighing the possible sale of its British insurance unit AbbeyLife, citing people familiar with the situation.
China's Anbang Insurance Group is also said to beconsidering a bid for the insurance unit, a source familiar withthe matter said.
Anbang declined to comment.
Phoenix Group Holdings, Britain's largestconsolidator of closed life funds, was set to bid for AbbeyLife, Sky News reported last month, citing sources familiar withthe matter.
Deutsche Bank has been considering options for Abbey Life, aperson familiar with the matter told Reuters last month, addingthat a new regulation was making the business unattractive.
Abbey Life, which closed to new business in 2000, iscomposed mainly of unit-linked life and pensions policies andannuities.
Deutsche Bank, which bought Abbey Life from Lloyds TSB for 977 million pounds in 2007, at the time around 1.5billion euros ($1.6 billion), was not reachable for comment.
Spokesmen for Swiss Re, Legal & General Group and PhoenixGroup Holdings were not immediately available for comment. (Reporting by Sneha Teresa Johny in Bengaluru, Pamela Barbagliaand Carolyn Cohn in London; editing by Grant McCool)