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.

The deal is anticipated to have a “non significant” effect on Crédit Agricole's Common Equity Tier 1 (CET 1) capital ratio.

Europe-based commercial bank UniCredit Group revealed a $10.5 billion all-share bid for Banco BPM S.p.A., a large bank in ...

Banco BPM shares spiked on Monday after the French lender Crédit Agricole announced it was boosting its stake in the Italian ...

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

France’s Crédit Agricole has said it will boost its stake in Banco BPM in a move that will complicate UniCredit’s approach ...

Italy has limited scope to intervene in UniCredit's swoop for smaller rival Banco BPM through its "golden powers", which some ...

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

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

Banco BPM SpA said the takeover bid it has received from UniCredit SpA wasn’t agreed in advance and isn’t in line with its ...

Ruling out a full takeover bid, Credit Agricole said on Friday it had entered derivative contracts to raise its holding in ...