The Italian lender Banca Popolare di Sondrio SpA has effectively rejected a takeover offer from rival BPER Banca as too low.

By Andrea Mandala and Valentina Za MILAN (Reuters) -BPER Banca's CEO on Friday said its 4.3 billion euro ($4.5 billion) ...

Banca Popolare di Sondrio is moving forward alone, convinced that it has better "growth prospects" in a stand-alone path ...

A relatively small Italian bank is considering selling its first significant risk transfer, demonstrating how the deals are ...

The latest unsolicited bid in Italian banking follows similar moves by UniCredit on Banco BPM and state-backed Monte dei ...

Another day, another chunky Italian bank merger. On the face of it, Thursday’s decision by $9 billion BPER to lob in a $4.5 ...

Italy's fourth-largest bank BPER on Thursday joined in a raft of takeover bids rocking the country's financial sector, with a ...

The logic for consolidation is straightforward: Europe doesn’t have enough banks with the scale to compete with the US and facilitate investment in essential projects such as the climate transition.

New twist in the game of risk that is animating the Italian banking panorama. Modena-based Bper has launched a voluntary ...

BPER Banca launched an all-share bid of roughly 4.3 billion euros ($4.47 billion) to take over smaller rival Banca Popolare di Sondrio, the latest twist in a wave of consolidation that is sweeping ...

BPER unveils 4.3 bln euro all-share offer for Pop Sondrio Unipol is main shareholder in BPER and Pop Sondrio Move prompted by round of M&A in sector, BPER says MILAN, Feb 7 (Reuters) - BPER Banca ...

MILAN (Reuters) -BPER Banca's CEO on Friday said its 4.3 billion euro ($4.5 billion) all-share takeover bid for smaller peer Banca Popolare di Sondrio was a defensive move prompted by a raft of ...