Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Italian banking group Unicredit has announced the hiring of 200 senior bankers.
The group intends to strengthen its private banking operations with the goal of exceeding 100 EUR billion of assets under management by 2018 from the current 90 EUR billion, thus consolidating its position in the domestic market. The strategy also entails the creation of a new subsidiary company in charge of managing operations of customers with financial assets valuable more than 5 EUR million. The new company, Cordusio, is expected to appoint further 100 senior bankers through internal relocation and new hirings.
The new employees will be initially enrolled on fixed-term contracts, to be possibly switched to open-ended ones.
Unicredit is currently implementing a large-scale restructuring plan at its Italian facilities (for more details, see UnicreditIT-2014).
Eurofound (2015), Unicredit, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 84045, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/84045.
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