Mediobanca

Greetings! The old folks used to say, “a village with few houses is a bad village,” and that phrase came to mind with SYRIZA, who, after pulling each other’s hair out all weekend in the second basement of a hotel in Metaxourgeio, suddenly they remembered the Novartis scandal. So, it seems that journalist Lianis claimed someone apologized on behalf of Tsipras to Loverdos.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is supporting the production of a range of next generation all-electric and plug-in hybrid variants of one-ton commercial vehicles for the European market by arranging a 650 million-euro loan to Ford Otosan, US automaker Ford's joint venture with Turkey's Koç Holding, according to a statement from the bank on July 14.

The board of Greek lender Eurobank will meet on Thursday to approve a deal to sell a majority stake in the bank's loan servicing unit FPS to Italy's biggest loan recovery firm doValue, banking sources told Reuters.

The Italian firm has secured an 80 percent stake in Financial Planning Services (FPS), the sources said.

Greece's third-largest lender, Eurobank, said on Friday that its Bulgarian subsidiary Postbank had concluded the acquisition of Piraeus Bank's Bulgarian unit after obtaining regulatory approvals.
The acquisition boosts Postbank's share in Bulgaria's banking market to more than 10 percent, ranking it third in terms of total loans, Eurobank said.

Eurobank has hired HSBC and Mediobanca to help it find a "strategic partner" for its Romanian subsidiary, a source at the Greek bank said on Monday.

Major Greek banks are looking to reduce their exposure abroad and strengthen their capital base under the terms of the country's latest multi-billion euro financial bailout.

Despite hopes of a new dawn for Iran's economy after nuclear-related sanctions were lifted, major Western banks are reluctant to do business with the Islamic republic for fear of U.S. retribution.

Greece's Eurobank is marketing a 500m euro four-year bond at an initial yield of 4.375 percent area, according to a source. The size of the transaction will not grow.

The senior unsecured Eurobond is being issued by ERB Hellas, with Eurobank Ergasias acting as guarantor.

The National Bank of Greece has priced its share offer at 2.00-2.60 euros a share, in a placing worth up to 2.5 billion euros, two sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

“There has been incredibly broad-based demand,” one of the sources said.