Italian lender’s purchase of 9% stake in German rival could signal start of long-awaited banking consolidation
Long-term investors should be looking for a clearer sense of the company’s next chapter
Labour’s legislation goes further than Tory proposals by committing to abolish no fault evictions
Berlin ‘naive’ to put key lender to Mittelstand companies on the line, says Verdi
Regulators and politicians should, this time, allow the race to run its course