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

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

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 ...

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

Crédit Agricole boosted its stake in BPM — borrowing a strategy UniCredit used on Commerzbank. The French bank insists it doesn’t aim to buy BPM. The Italian government seems OK with that.

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

UniCredit's bid for its smaller peer prompted Credit Agricole to say on Friday it had entered derivatives that would raise its stake in BPM to 15% from 9.9% once the European Central Bank gives ...

UniCredit CEO Andrea Orcel has revealed a crucial deadline in the ongoing pursuit of Banco BPM: March. Speaking during a ...

UniCredit's bid risks scuppering the government's plans to form a third strong banking player alongside Intesa Sanpaolo and ...

UniCredit SpA has hired Deloitte LLP to advise Italy’s second-biggest bank on its takeover bid for Banco BPM SpA, people ...