EEMEA market round up: UniCredit makes €4 billion profit
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EEMEA market round up: UniCredit makes €4 billion profit

Italy’s UniCredit made a €4 billion net profit in 2008, down 38% on the previous year but not as bad as some analysts feared. However, the bank, which is the biggest lender in central and eastern Europe, also recorded an almost 50% jump in bad debt provisions to €3.7 billion. The bank plans to sell up to €4 billion of hybrid debt to the Italian and Austrian governments, as well as private investors, to lift its core tier 1 capital ratio to 7.2% from 6.5%.

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