And Italy's treasury ministry has hung a for-sale sign on Banca Nazionale del Lavoro.
Banca Intesa is helping Granarolo to explore the option of a highly leveraged bid.
Banca Monte plans to report on its internal investigation into the trades by mid-February.
The Banca d'Italia would love to see its rates fall to converge with German ones.
According to Banca di Roma, however, the examiners gave it a clean bill of health.
BBV's stake in Banca Nazionale del Lavoro has triggered speculation about a Spanish-Italian merger.
Banca, an upmarket Italian restaurant in Mayfair, is one of the most recent places to join the trend.
The key to the success of Bipop-Carire and Banca Fideuram appears to be an emphasis on face-to-face advice.
The Bank of Italy, which last examined Banca di Roma in 1995, declines to comment on individual banks.
Under pressure from analysts, Swiss Life may sell its subsidiary Banca del Gottardo.
UBS, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Nextra, the asset-management arm of Banca Intesa, and 13 individuals connected to these banks.
Italy's Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena and regulators are investigating the trades.
It also owns 60% of Juventus, perhaps Italy's best-known football club, and 9.8% of Banca Leonardo, a boutique investment bank.
One possible suitor is Granarolo, a much smaller northern Italian dairy group in which Banca Intesa owns a 20% stake.
Much the same story applies at Banca Commerciale Italiana, which was privatised in February 1994 after a valuation by J.
Italian banks posted losses, with Banco Popolare down 4.7%, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena off 3.4%, and UniCredit shedding 2.1%.
Some 20m euros was destined for JP Morgan in Frankfurt, with the remainder going to another Italian bank, Banca del Fucino.
Last year, two local investment-adviser networks, Bipop-Carire and Banca Fideuram, accounted for 42% of new money going into Italian mutual funds.
IMI's hostile bid for Banca di Roma, apparently because it did not fit its own plans for consolidation in the industry.
That appears to be the logic behind the merger of Banca di Roma, Italy's fourth-biggest bank, and Bipop-Carire, once a stockmarket darling.
None of this has dented the pretensions of the Banca d'Italia, or its 9, 000 staff (a number unchanged from ten years ago).
In a poll of staff at the treasury ministry in the early 1990s, most would have preferred working at the Banca d'Italia.
What Bipop-Carire will not solve, however, is Banca di Roma's bad-loan problem.
The recent takeover by Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena of Banca Agricola Mantovana has created a precedent for change among its fellow co-operatives.
Both deals were hustled forward by the creation of Banca Intesa last year when Cariplo and Banco Ambrosiano Veneto, two largish northern banks, joined forces.
Banca Intesa's likely allies own more than 30% of Parmalat's shares.
"It is noted that none of the transactions in question appears to have been submitted to the bank's board of directors for approval, " Banca Monte said.
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena's shares tumbled further amid fears that years-old structured-product contracts could leave the bank with larger losses than expected for 2012.
Banca Rasini, one of the little-known banks used by Mr Berlusconi and once his father's employer, cropped up in trials of several money-launderers in the 1980s.
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