Latest Italy Headlines
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JP Morgan Chase To Buy 22% Stake in Italy’s Fondiaria
Feb 4 2002 // U.S. investment bank JP Morgan Chase will enter the convoluted world of Italian finance with its agreement to acquire a 22 percent interest in Italian insurer Fondiaria along with two other investors for € 812 million...
Fondiaria Chief Favors a ‘Ménage à Trois’
Jan 15 2002 // Roberto Gavazzi, the CEO of Italian insurance group Fondiaria, which is being sought as a merger partner by both SAI, another Italian insurer, and Fiat’s insurance subsidiary Toro (See IJ Website Jan. 11) reportedly...
ING Launches One-Stop Banking Operation in Italy
Apr 3 2001 // After the U.S., Canada, France, Spain and Australia, ING, Holland’s giant banking and insurance group, has brought its one-stop bank, ING Direct, to Italy. The opening is the latest in ING’s efforts to build a...
EU Demands Italy Lift Auto Rate Freeze
Oct 27 2000 // The European Commission, the European Union’s administrative arm, has given the Italian government three weeks in which to end its price freeze on automobile insurance premiums, in effect since the beginning of the...
Floods, Landslides Cause Heavy Damage in Switzerland, Italy
Oct 16 2000 // The week-long rains which caused heavy damages in Southern England have subsided there, but new storms over the weekend in the Alps caused swollen rivers to overflow and produced a number of mudslides destroying buildings...
