UniCredit invites 10 banks for cash call consortium: sources

Reuters

Published Nov 29, 2016 07:36AM ET

UniCredit invites 10 banks for cash call consortium: sources

MILAN (Reuters) - Italian lender UniCredit (MI:CRDI) has sent invitation letters to 10 banks to form the consortium for its planned multi-billion euro capital increase that should be launched in February, two sources closed to the matter said on Tuesday.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (N:BAC), JP Morgan (N:JPM), Mediobanca (MI:MDBI), Morgan Stanley (N:MS) and UBS (S:UBSG) are tipped as joint global coordinators, the sources added, confirming an earlier report by Italian daily Il Messaggero.

The people added that Citibank (N:C), Credit Suisse (S:CSGN), Deutsche Bank (DE:DBKGn) , Goldman Sachs (N:GS) and HSBC (L:HSBA) were contacted to become the cash call's co-global coordinators.

Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and HSBC could not immediately be reached for comment, while the others declined to comment.