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...Just across the piazza you will also find the Gallerie d’Italia housed in the Palazzo Brentani, Palazzo Anguissola Antona Traversi and the former headquarters of the Banca Commerciale Italiana....
...The writer is director of Belgrave Capital Management and Banca del Ceresio The dollar has strengthened by about 20 per cent in the past year and pundits generally attribute this performance to rising interest...
...investor to push for governance reforms and has also put pressure on Nagel to reduce the bank’s reliance on the dividends it receives from Generali, where it is the biggest shareholder, and from Compass Banca...
...During a time of political turbulence in Italy during the 1970s, and fearing the possibility of kidnap, he moved to Lugano in Switzerland, where he and his brother had set up Banca del Ceresio years earlier...
...Banca Generali, Generali’s majority-held and well-regarded wealth manager, is often mooted. A share swap between Mediobanca and Generali might do the trick....
...While at Merrill Lynch in 2008, Mr Orcel advised MPS on the €9bn acquisition of Banca Antonveneta, a deal that overstretched MPS at the height of the financial crisis....
...Former UBI Banca chief executive Victor Massiah, Nexi CFO Bernardo Mingrone and Matteo Del Fante, the chief executive of Poste Italiane, are among the top external candidates, the people said....
...Pressure intensified this summer when rival Intesa Sanpaolo snapped up UBI Banca and replaced UniCredit as Italy’s largest bank by assets....
...The surprise decision came after Milan’s senior prosecutor Alessandra Del Corvo threw out a previous request by prosecutors in another court for Mr Profumo and Mr Viola to be acquitted of all charges, according...
...Only misery is recovering,” says Piero Sciarretta, the 49-year old owner of La Bottega del Colore, a paint and varnish store near the local railway station which he runs with his wife....
...It also bought a €385m portfolio from Italian bank Banca Mediocredito del Friuli Venezia Giulia....
...The portfolio, which was bought from Banca Mediocredito del Friuli Venezia Giulia, marks Bain Capital’s first standlone acquisition in the country since it bought a servicer, Aquileia Capital Services, in...
...Sir, The travails of the Veneto Banca and other people’s banks completes a full circle of banking history (“End of the embrace”, The Big Read, November 24)....
...Italian industry lobby Unioncamere del Veneto estimates at least a 3.4 per cent fall in regional gross domestic product for 2016....
...CDG Group was led by Robert Del Genio who joins FTI as a senior managing director. Abernathy MacGregor, a US corporate communications firm, has hired Carl Folta as senior counsellor....
...Sunlight is pouring into Marcello Clarich’s office from windows that give unequalled views over Siena’s Piazza del Campo....
...The suicide of a pensioner whose life savings were swallowed by the reorganisation of Banca Etruria, a troubled Italian lender, shows the stakes in what must be both a financial and political process....
...UBS, the biggest Swiss bank, joined a consortium bidding for BSI, which included Italian private equity group Investindustrial and several cantonal banks led by Banca dello Stato del Cantone Ticino....
...for private banking at Popular Banca Privada, which recently absorbed Citi’s Spanish operations....
...The Swiss bank, which was bought by Generali in 1998, slid to a net loss of SFr722m last year as it took a big writedown on goodwill relating to its acquisition of Banca del Gottardo six years ago....
...BNP Paribas bought Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) in Italy almost a decade ago and has been linked with a possible bid for Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the biggest failure of last year’s European banking...
...In a first sign of a predicted wave of consolidation among Italy’s regional banks, Banca Popolare di Vicenza on Thursday launched a takeover bid for Banca Popolare dell’Etruria e del Lazio....
...Cost of risk at its Italian subsidiary Banca Nazionale del Lavoro’s was still elevated at 185bp – a number to watch in Italian bank quarterlies – and in personal finance it is stubbornly high at 217bp, though...
...Chiquita, based in North Carolina, has a strong presence in North America, where it competes with large global rivals Del Monte and Dole....
...Moody’s changes reflect the “significant improvements in [BNP's] liquidity and funding profiles” and the reduced uncertainty surrounding its Italian exposure, through domestic unit Banca Nazionale del Lavoro...
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