Commerzbank AG Chief Executive Officer Bettina Orlopp announced a new share buyback and vowed to keep increasing payouts as ...

This development comes at a crucial time for Commerzbank, as reports indicate that Italian banking giant Unicredit is preparing a potential takeover bid in the coming months. The German bank ...

One of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s most senior bankers has a message for his rivals across Europe: they’ll have to get bigger if ...

There was Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA’s (BBVA) takeover ... Instead, Commerzbank CEO Bettina Orlopp ratcheted up her rhetoric against UniCredit — labeling the lender’s recent overtures “hostile ...

Germany’s Commerzbank AG is building a defense strategy amid a potential takeover approach by UniCredit SpA. The Italian lender is also making a bid for its domestic competitor Banco BPM SpA.

Milan-based UniCredit, the country’s second ... is that it would expose Commerzbank’s customers in Germany to potential instability in Italy. Weidmann told Handelsblatt a takeover would represent ...

and labor unions maintaining a critical view of potential takeover scenarios. Since UniCredit's initial involvement, Commerzbank's stock has experienced a remarkable appreciation of nearly 50% ...

Earlier on Friday, the Financial Times newspaper reported that Commerzbank CEO Bettina Orlopp had rejected an invitation from UniCredit CEO Andrea Orcel to hold informal talks about a potential ...

Germany's Commerzbank has demanded a formal written proposal amid a potential takeover by Italian bank UniCredit. "We have ...

MILAN, Feb 1 (Reuters) - UniCredit (CRDI.MI), opens new tab remains focused on its takeover bid for Banco BPM (BAMI.MI), opens new tab and its stake in Commerzbank ... as it prepares to renew ...

UniCredit’s strategy of buying and expanding a stake in the lender while considering a takeover ... were.” Commerzbank said in the statement on Wednesday that “there were no talks between UniCredit ...