Probably no significance was intended in the date chosen by the board of Caisse d’Epargne to give the green light for the merger of its investment banking and asset management businesses with those of Banque Populaire. But the superstitious among its rivals can only have had their anxieties intensified by the date, 06/06/06 – also chosen as the release date for a remake of horror classic The Omen.
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