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Commerzbank open to negotiating its takeover by UniCredit

The growing shareholder support secured by the Italian bank makes it necessary to initiate a “constructive and transparent” dialogue. Reported by the Consejeros Editorial Team After months of trying to resist, Commerzbank has agreed to open talks with UniCredit regarding a potential takeover. The growing shareholder support secured by the Italian bank makes it necessary to initiate a “constructive and transparent” dialogue to protect the interests of shareholders, employees and…


mergers and acquisitions

European banks: Countdown to the M&A ballet

It is only a question of time and the markets are waiting: there will be more consolidation operations in the European banking sector in the next few years, some of them cross-border.


NPLs BIG

Spanish banks: less Tier1, no skeletons in the closet

Spanish banks are last in Eurozone in Tier 1 and penultimate in regulatory capital. But they have an unquestionable competitive advantage: they are the only transparent ones in the Eurozone for the ECB and for the other investors being the only audited ones. There are no skeletons in the closet even if there is less capital to compensate.