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    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Intesa Sanpaolo SpA
      Italian watchdog orders Intesa to halt customers’ transfer to digital-only bank

      Rome-based regulator says clients should be able to choose whether their accounts are moved

      An Intesa bank branch
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      LexBanca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA
      Italian banks: remedy to MPS’s ills was Lovaglio, actually Premium content

      Economic conditions have worked in CEO’s favour — but MPS remains a medium-sized regional lender

      Chief executive and turnaround expert Luigi Lovaglio has taken an axe to headcount
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Special ReportDiversity Leaders
      FinecoBank takes on Italy’s women-in-workforce challenge

      Part-time work option and hybrid model assist in supporting female participation in labour market

    • Tuesday, 24 October, 2023
      UniCredit SpA
      UniCredit to set aside €1.1bn to avoid paying one-off windfall tax

      Analysts say move by Italy’s second-largest bank may be followed by other lenders

      A high-level image showing the UniCredit sign on top of the company’s Milan headquarters. The rest of the city can be seen stretching into the distance
    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      Italian politics
      Meloni takes ‘full responsibility’ for controversial bank tax

      Italy’s prime minister admits issues with levy announcement but says she would ‘do it again’

      Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni, pictured in Rome in December 2022
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Italian politics
      Italy backtracks with cap on windfall tax after bank shares slide

      Rome cites ‘financial stability’ as it seeks to calm market jitters following unexpected measure

      Giorgia Meloni at a news conference
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Top investors attack Italy’s botched windfall tax on banks

      Alarm over levy and poor communication from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

      An Intesa SanPaolo bank branch in Brescia, Italy
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      News in-depthItalian politics
      Meloni’s first brush with markets undermines Italy’s credibility

      Rightwing government’s surprise windfall tax on banks is branded a ‘major miscalculation’

      Montage of Giorgia Meloni and Palazzo Montecitorio, the seat of the Chamber of Deputies
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      News in-depthEuropean banks
      Italy joins wave of windfall taxes on banks across Europe

      Governments in the region target lenders’ profits as interest rates increase

      Santander SEB, Intesa, Unicredit, Caixa Bank, BBVA and Swedbank logos
    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      Italy hits banks with surprise windfall tax

      Shares in lenders drop after government announces planned levy of 40%

      Milan’s skyline with the UniCredit Tower seen from the terrace of Duomo Cathedral in Milan
    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      LexBanks
      Italy bank tax: Giorgia’s blunt instrument evokes discord Premium content

      Governments that mount tax raids on a whim can expect higher risk premia on their financings

      Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni, left, and her deputy Matteo Salvini
    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      Markets InsightMoritz Kraemer
      Italy harms itself by blocking changes to crisis-fighting in eurozone

      The ECB can break the impasse by putting pressure on Rome to approve the European Stability Mechanism treaty

      Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni
    • Monday, 24 July, 2023
      Mediobanca SpA
      Mediobanca makes bet on London with start-up venture

      Italian bank is teaming up with Founders Factory in bid to increase its presence in UK and tech sector

      Alberto Nagel, chief executive of Mediobanca
    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      UniCredit SpA
      UniCredit’s Orcel plays down talk of BPM deal as profits hit a record

      CEO says bank better off returning money to shareholders but analysts expect lender to examine acquisitions

      Unicredit tower in Milan
    • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
      European banks
      Europe should support business as outlook darkens, says veteran banker

      Corrado Passera warns recent bank failures have increased risk of recession

      Corrado Passera, pictured in 2018
    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      LexItalian economy
      Italian equities: the rally may have further to run Premium content

      Italy’s winning streak is largely down to its banks, which make up a fifth of the index

      The Milan stock exchange:
    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      LexAndrew Whiffin
      The Lex Newsletter: European banking is having a time to shine Premium content

      Italy’s lenders in particular are in their sweetest spot since before the financial crisis

      Montage of a UniCredit logo on the side of a building and chief executive Andrea Orcel
    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      The Big Read
      Monte dei Paschi: how far did Italy go to draw a line under its troubled bank?

      After 15 years of scandal and state aid, Rome was prepared to bend the rules to ensure the world’s oldest lender could be safely sold off

    • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
      AXA SA
      Axa seeks better Monte dei Paschi deal after leading capital raise

      French insurer was biggest private contributor to rights issue and wants improved terms on joint venture

      Exterior of Palazzo Salimbeni, headquarters of the Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena
    • Monday, 31 October, 2022
      Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA
      Monte dei Paschi cash call 93% covered but shareholders shy away

      Retail investors took up just 10% of ailing bank’s €2.5bn capital raising

      he main offices of the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena
    • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
      Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA
      Monte dei Paschi di Siena set for €2.5bn rights issue

      Banks including Mediobanca, Credit Suisse, Citigroup and BofA to underwrite fundraising

      Piazza Salimbeni in Siena, home to Monte dei Paschi di Siena
    • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
      UniCredit SpA
      UniCredit’s Orcel pushes to repair damaged relations with Rome

      Collapsed takeover of Monte dei Paschi di Siena strained ties with Italian government

      Andrea Orcel
    • Monday, 13 December, 2021
      InterviewAndrea Orcel
      After Santander court victory, Andrea Orcel aims to win at UniCredit

      Italian banker says remuneration fight ‘was the right thing to do because there was no other way’

      Andrea Orcel in his office at UniCredit
    • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
      Lex
      Italian banks: bad loans are a good business for specialist investors Premium content

      Profitable work for specialists as Italy cleans up past mistakes in the banking sector

      The logo of Monte dei Paschi di Siena
    • Monday, 25 October, 2021
      LexUniCredit SpA
      UniCredit/MPS: Orcel switches from deal maker to deal breaker Premium content

      Chief executive deserves credit for holding out for a big dowry, but he may have made enemies along the way

      UniCredit’s chief executive Andrea Orcel
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