Italy’s UniCredit beats profit forecasts and drops Russian deal
Italian bank UniCredit (CRDI.MI) posted better than expected 2021 results on Friday as the push by new Chief Executive Andrea Orcel to lift revenue began to bear fruit while costs remained in check despite rising pay and one-off charges.
Column: Like Tortoise vs Hare, ECB may ‘normalize’ before Fed
If the world’s big central banks are convinced the economic emergency is over and policy should start to return to pre-pandemic settings, the ECB is likely to beat the Fed to it.
UniCredit chairman says banking M&A needs European focus -La Stampa
Banking mergers should be aimed at European expansion, UniCredit (CRDI.MI) Chairman Pier Carlo Padoan said in a newspaper interview on Monday, warning against deals that make lenders more domestically focused.
Decline and near fall of Italy’s Monte dei Paschi, the world’s oldest bank
Four years after spending 5.4 billion euros ($6.3 billion) to rescue it, Rome is in talks to sell Monte dei Paschi (BMPS.MI) to UniCredit (CRDI.MI) and cut its 64% stake in the Tuscan bank.
Italy’s Treasury under siege over Monte dei Paschi deal
Italy’s Treasury is under fire from ruling parties seeking guarantees for Monte dei Paschi’s employees and Siena’s local economy, after the ministry entered exclusive talks to sell the ailing Tuscan bank to UniCredit.
More changes from Orcel’s shake-up of UniCredit due in coming weeks -sources
MILAN, June 29 (Reuters) – UniCredit (CRDI.MI) is set for further senior management changes in the coming weeks as part of new CEO Andrea Orcel’s reorganisation of Italy’s second biggest bank, two people close to the matter said. In May, less than a month after taking the job, Orcel announced an overhaul of top management, streamlining a […]
A $9 million boss? UniCredit investors to decide how much Orcel is worth
MILAN (Reuters) – Investors are due to approve Andrea Orcel’s appointment as chief executive of UniCredit on Thursday, but the issue that scuppered his first attempt to run a major bank is overshadowing his second: pay.
