Payments companies Nexi
, Stripe and Adyen have started offering
businesses in Italy a way to accept payments from customers that
relies on Apple s iPhones, they said on Wednesday. .
UniCredit faces
court hearings in Britain and Russia in the second quarter after
a Russian energy company sued the Italian bank for failing to
honour guarantee payments because of international.
A surge in trading of Banco
BPM shares is again drawing attention to Italy s
third-largest bank, which has long been at the centre of
speculation about potential consolidation in the sector. .
Record annual profits from
Italy s two biggest banks last week showed both Intesa Sanpaolo
and UniCredit benefiting from a drop in loan
losses, but also highlighted different policies.
Mid-sized Italian bank BPER
Banca said it had finalised a deal with Gardant, more
than a year after it first announced a partnership with the bad
loan specialist backed by U.S. investment fund.