Banking
Germany Approves UniCredit Stake In Commerzbank
Last month, Germany’s Federal Cartel Office approved Italy’s second-largest lender’s plan to purchase a major stake in state-backed Commerzbank.
Italy
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
US Investors Swarm Italy’s Football Clubs And Stadiums
Serie A, B, and C teams are all in play as private equity firms join the “mad rush” to buy...
Italy
Includes historical data for Italy’s Gross Domestic Product growth, debt-to-GDP ratio and more, as well as information on trade, banking...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CFO Corner: Prysmian’s Facchini Appreciates Investor Insights
Pier Francesco Facchini has served as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Prysmian since 2007. Prysmian is a company specializing...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CFO Corner: Massimo Ferrari, Webuild
Massimo Ferrari is General Manager and Group Chief Financial Officer at Webuild, an infrastructure group since 1906 that went through...
Banking
Unicredit Teams Up With Greece’s Alpha Bank
At the end of October, Italy’s UniCredit announced a two-part deal with Greek bank Alpha under which it will merge...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CFO Corner: Amplifon’s Gabriele Galli
Gabriele Galli is chief financial officer (CFO) of Amplifon, an Italian hearing-care company that operates in 25 countries. The following is an edited transcript of his conversation with Global Finance.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CFO Corner: Q&A With Lamborghini’s Paolo Poma
Automobili Lamborghini's CFO Paolo Poma explains to Global Finance how his unusual career path from engineering to the C-suite prepared him to lead the company in an era of tighter credit conditions.
Technology
Italy Temporarily Bans ChatGPT
French, German and Irish regulators contacted their Italian colleagues to better understand the basis of the temporary ban.
News
Arriverderci Prime Minister Draghi
On Italian Prime Minister MarioDraghi's last day in office,the European Council in Brussels sent him off with a long applause and a celebratory video entitled “Arrivederci Mario.”
News
Italy: A Fine Day For Big Tech
Amazon gets hit with a $1 billion fine by the Italian government for anti-competitive practices.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
KKR Flirts With Italian Telecom Acquisition
KKR currently holds a 37.5% stake in TIM’s “last mile” network, and is reportedly mulling a breakup of the group if the deal goes through.