Italian lessons in the perils of choosing power over profit
The risk that close business relationships turn rotten applies everywhere
Italian banks weighed down by overpaid directors
It is hard to find a lender with less than 15 board members
Italians kept guessing over Vincent Bolloré’s motives
Officials frustrated by industrialist’s creeping takeover of Telecom Italia
Italians say slow down to faster fashion
Luxury brands face greater pressure than ever in the race to get their goods to market. Italy has been far slower to get on board
Barclays to lose £200m on Italian retail bank sale
Mediobanca will buy network of 89 branches as part of UK bank’s refocusing on core assets
Mediobanca: exclamation explanation
Barclays’ strange Italian deal
Italy to launch biggest privatisation in more than a decade
Partial sale of Poste Italiane will raise about €4bn for government
Mediobanca takes control of London-based Cairn Capital
Italian investment bank makes first foreign acquisition in 70 years
Banca Ifis buys three bad loan portfolios
Deal by Milan-based bank signals thaw in Italy’s €330bn NPL market
Asset sales by Italy’s Mediobanca help it fight another day
The once secretive Milanese bank has been transformed
China bank funds buy stake in Mediobanca
Italy has been focal point of Beijing’s €5bn Europe investment push
Mediobanca and Intesa quit Telecom Italia shareholder group
Spain’s Telefónica is left with largest direct holding
Mediobanca hires former Barclays Capital executive Canzonieri
Lender seeks to reposition itself as a pan-European boutique
Italian finance: Time to modernise
‘Stress tests’ will count for little until the vast network of local banks is overhauled
