Bloomberg Before an elite financial and business audience, Italy’s prime minister and finance minister strove to project optimism that their drive to overhaul the country’s troubled banks will succeed. But a fellow guest from the European Central Bank damped expectations with a warning the market could have the last word. The restructuring of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena ...

  Bloomberg John Cryan is going back to the drawing board after Deutsche Bank AG lost more than half its market value since he unveiled his overhaul last year. The chief executive officer and his top managers will meet this weekend to assess progress on the reorganization, said a person familiar with the matter. Deutsche Bank held talks over a ...

  Bloomberg Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane (ICBPI) SpA, the Italian banking-services provider owned by private-equity firms, hired Bernardo Mingrone from UniCredit SpA as chief financial officer, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Mingrone will reorganize and develop ICBPI to prepare for a direct sale or a listing in the next three years, said one of the ...