UniCredit plan signals shift in European IB landscape

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UniCredit plan signals shift in European IB landscape

European investment banking could be finally heading towards the seismic shift that senior bankers have predicted almost since the start of the subprime crisis — the division of the industry into two very traditional arms, one comprising the huge commercial lending and trading firms, and the other being specialist merchant banks.

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