As Barclays slugs it out with Royal Bank of Scotland for ABN Amro, the focus of consolidation in the continental European banking sector switched to Italy yesterday.
The Milan-headquartered UniCredit will acquire the smaller rival Capitalia for more than euro 21.33 bn after the board of directors of both banks met yesterday to approve a deal to create the Europe's second-biggest bank by market value.
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