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Now playing Next Business Italy's UniCredit selling 13 billion euros of new shares Italy's biggest bank UniCredit is selling 13 billion euros of new shares to rebuild its capital reserves following writedowns on bad loans. 07/02/2017
Now playing Next Business ECB's Draghi warns against US relaxing bank rules European Central Bank head Mario Draghi has called the US administration's idea of relaxing bank rules "very worrisome". 06/02/2017
