UBI rights issue teeters but it’s no HBOS re-run

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UBI rights issue teeters but it’s no HBOS re-run

European equity markets this week faced the prospect of the first failed bank rights issue since the HBOS disaster in 2008. Short-sellers turned on UBI Banca’s Eu1bn stock offering amid the periphery’s latest week of woe, sending the stock perilously close to the rights price.

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