The poor performance of UniCredit’s shares this year, even versus peers, has given his opponents on the board a reason to turn against Jean Pierre Mustier’s strategy.
However, for many of the bank’s international shareholders, his presence at the helm remained the biggest, if not only, reason to own the bank.
The fact that Mustier is now unexpectedly leaving at the end of his current term in April – amid widespread speculation that the board wanted him to consider buying one of Europe’s weakest banks – makes things much worse.
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