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UniCredit CEO says taking control of Commerzbank ‘not the expected scenario’

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Andrea Orcel, chief executive officer of Unicredit, in London, UK, on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images UniCredit CEO Andrea Orcel told CNBC Tuesday that he does not foresee a future where the Italian lender fully controls Commerzbank . Orcel's comments came as the Italian lender's tender offer to raise its stake in the German bank kicks off. "If we get to control, which is not the expected scenario at the moment, what we would do is very clear, and the returns on that would be … very positive for our shareholders, and also for the shareholders of Commerzbank, but it's up to them," he told CNBC's Carolin Roth . "We're not really fretting it. We are just focusing on delivering, and we've done all we could to engage, and now we are just looking at what shareholders will do." Last month, UniCredit announced an offer to build more shares in Commerzbank, structured as a share exchange.…

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