Crédit Agricole boosted its stake in BPM — borrowing a strategy UniCredit used on Commerzbank. The French bank insists it doesn’t aim to buy BPM. The Italian government seems OK with that.
In a letter to the Financial Times, Unicredit CEO Andrea Orcel explains the reasons for the Commerz and Banco Bpm operations: "They are tests that will make us understand if we are serious about integ ...