2017-02-04reuters.com

UniCredit has heavily written down the value of its 700 million euro ($756 million) investment in Italy's bank rescue fund and other investors are likely to follow suit, sources told Reuters, complicating efforts to stabilize the nation's banking sector.

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By writing down the stake, UniCredit is indicating that it does not believe it will make money on the investment it made into the state-managed fund created to recapitalize a number of failing Italian banks and help the industry offload bad loans. A source at another bank estimated UniCredit's writedown could be closer to 70 percent.

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Atlante now owns the two Veneto banks it rescued last year, Banca Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca, but the lenders need more capital, estimated by banking analysts at 3 billion euros at least.

Well that didn't last long.



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