UniCredit SpA converted its synthetic holding in Greek lender Alpha Bank SA into actual shares, bringing its direct stake and voting rights to around 29.8%, the Milan-based bank said in a statement ...

MILAN (Reuters) - UniCredit CEO Andrea Orcel has been drawing up plans to take over Banco BPM for years and was almost ready to pull the trigger, two sources close to the matter said. But instead of ...

MILAN (Reuters) - UniCredit chief Andrea Orcel attended a virtual meeting the Italian bank held on Friday with Commerzbank after becoming the German lender's biggest private investor, a source with ...

Having shrunk or exited from the more capital-intensive markets businesses half a decade ago, UBS’s right-sized model is one others have tried to follow. Its earlier move has afforded stability of ...

(Bloomberg) -- After seeing two unsolicited deals in a year stalled by unwilling targets and angry governments, UniCredit SpA Chief Executive Officer Andrea Orcel is finally getting a warmer reception ...

UniCredit CEO Andrea Orcel on Wednesday told CNBC that the share price of potential takeover target Commerzbank is currently too prohibitively expensive for a merger deal. UniCredit has built a ...

Divided between two takeover courtships, UniCredit's Andrea Orcel still has room to sweeten his bid for Italy's Banco BPM, analysts say, while political turmoil stalls a deal with Germany's ...

True to his reputation as a consummate dealmaker, Unicredit CEO Andrea Orcel is orchestrating one of the largest cross-border bank mergers ever in Europe. Last month, Unicredit swiftly and ...

UniCredit Chief Executive Andrea Orcel said a significant number of jobs would be eliminated if it took over German peer Commerzbank but the figure would be lower than what has been speculated. "I ...

UniCredit SpA Chief Executive Officer Andrea Orcel wants to decide at the end of this year whether he makes a takeover offer for Commerzbank AG, linking the decision to the next German government’s ...

Lots of people in the industry will tell you they always wanted to be an investment banker. Few mean it like Andrea Orcel does. His thesis at university was on investment banks and what they do for ...

The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. Sergio Ermotti is taking a gamble. The UBS chief executive is preparing to install his former colleague Andrea ...