EU deadline on UniCredit, Banco BPM deal extended after national request
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU antitrust regulators have extended their decision deadline on Italian bank UniCredit's takeover bid for its smaller rival Banco BPM after a national watchdog asked to take over the review, a European Commission filing showed. The EU competition enforcer's website showed a national agency had submitted a request on May 14 but did not name the country. The Commission, which had originally set a June 4 deadline for its decision, will now decide by June 19 whether to clear the deal, with or without conditions, open a full-scale investigation or hand it over to the national regulator.