By Valentina Za and Giuseppe Fonte MILAN (Reuters) -UniCredit CEO Andrea Orcel has been drawing up plans to take over Banco ...

Italy's unfolding banking takeover tussles have been long in the making and are predicted to go on for several months.

Crédit Agricole boosted its stake in BPM — borrowing a strategy UniCredit used on Commerzbank. The French bank insists it ...

UniCredit is ready to sit down with Credit Agricole, a spokesperson for the Italian bank said in a LinkedIn post after the ...

Italian bank Banco BPM is preparing to give Citigroup and Lazard a mandate to advise over an unsolicited takeover bid by ...

Credit Agricole said it bought financial contracts that could raise its stake in Banco BPM to 15.1% at a time when the ...

Gupta MILAN/PARIS (Reuters) -Credit Agricole upped the stakes in a banking battle over Italy's Banco BPM on Friday, by using ...

In the possible wedding between Unicredit and Banco Bpm, the swing vote will be Crédit Agricole, but the top management of the Milanese bank is working to study a defensive strategy ...

While Crédit Agricole’s move to bulk up suggests UniCredit has a tougher negotiation on its hands, there may be a silver lining too ...

Banco BPM SpA rose in Milan trading after Credit Agricole SA raised its stake in Italy’s third-largest bank, a move aimed at ...

Philippe Brassac was nearing retirement when a flurry of banking deals in Italy risked throwing his legacy as chief executive ...