Carige fights to rescue rights issue after underwriting fails

Banca Carige, the Genoese bank, is struggling to save its recapitalisation plan, after failing on Thursday to launch its expected €560m rights issue, leaving its future in doubt. With several Italian and Spanish banks having collapsed in the past few years, market participants will be watching this latest test of Europe’s systems for dealing with faltering banks, write Jon Hay, Sam Kerr and Tyler Davies.