UniCredit: Common Bad Bank with Intesa Sanpaolo?

Businessn.a. ♦ Published: April 22, 2014; 09:12 ♦ (Vindobona)

The parent company of Bank Austria may create a common bad bank with its Italian competitor Intesa Sanpaolo. The bad bank may be sold later on.

UniCredit Has To Prepare for the Stress Tests / Picture: © Vindobona.org

In order to prepare its balance sheet for the stress test, UniCredit and Intesa Sanpaolo try to reduce its bad loan portfolio. In total, the bad loan portfolio has a size of € 60bn, insiders say.

At the beginning of this year, UniCredit´s CEO Federico Ghizzoni stressed that the debate about the reduction of non-performing loans has begun to intensify. “UniCredit is…