{"id":70922,"date":"2025-05-03T10:36:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T10:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70922\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T10:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T10:36:27","slug":"eu-antitrust-regulators-to-rule-on-unicredits-banco-bpm-bid-by-june-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70922\/","title":{"rendered":"EU antitrust regulators to rule on Unicredit&#8217;s Banco BPM bid by June 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU antitrust regulators will rule on Italian bank UniCredit&#8217;s takeover bid for its smaller rival Banco BPM by June 4, according to a filing on the European Commission website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">UniCredit&#8217;s offer, which runs until June 23, has already been rejected by Banco BPM as too low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The EU competition watchdog can approve the bid with or without remedies at the end of its preliminary review or it can open a four-month-long investigation if it has serious concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Italian government has used its &#8216;golden power&#8217; to impose conditions on the deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU antitrust regulators will rule on Italian bank UniCredit&#8217;s takeover bid for its smaller rival Banco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[5237,35517,35518,2000,299,5187,2557,1699,23774],"class_list":{"0":"post-70922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-antitrust-regulators","9":"tag-banco-bpm","10":"tag-competition-watchdog","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-commission","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-unicredit"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114443464397397771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}