Andrea Orcel is tactically very skilled. In his bid to take over Commerzbank, the CEO of Unicredit is also bringing the German subsidiary HypoVereinsbank (HVB) into play. According to him, this would ...

HVB’s share price has more than doubled since the end of March. So is the troubled German bank out of the woods? Earlier this year, HVB set itself a hugely ambitious reconstruction plan, pledging to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. HVB on Tuesday became the first bank to reach a settlement with prosecutors over its role in helping KPMG ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The supervisory board of HVB, Germany's second biggest listed bank, is on Monday expected to eject the head of ...

Michael Diederich, chief executive of HypoVereinsbank (HVB), is UniCredit’s second big country head to exit in the space of a few months, after the departure of its head of Italy, Niccolò Ubertalli, ...

A German man committed to a high-security psychiatric hospital after being accused of fabricating a story of money-laundering activities at a major bank is to have his case reviewed after evidence has ...

HVB previously used Front Capital Systems' legacy products Optas for equity trading and Intas for interest rate trading. Following a competitive tender on the equity trading side, HVB selected Front ...

Germany’s HVB Group agreed Sunday to be acquired by Italy’s Unicredito SpA for 15.4 billion euros ($18.7 billion), opening the way for Europe’s biggest ever cross-border banking deal and the creation ...

Against the background of Unicredit's advances towards Commerzbank, a corporate anniversary is moving into the spotlight. In June, it will be 20 years since the takeover of HypoVereinsbank (HVB) by ...

Europe's biggest cross-border banking takeover, a €15.4bn deal between Italy's UniCredito and Germany's HVB, was sealed last night. Union anger over as many as 10,000 job cuts under the terms of the ...