Sg/Unicredit Banque to Banca

Chuck Prince pretty much killed off rumours that Citigroup might buy Societe Generale when he said last week that a large mature European bank wasn’t on the US firm’s menu. But this idea always looked far-fetched. With a market capitalisation of about E60bn ($76bn), the French would be a huge mouthful for anyone - even the $250bn US bank - once you added in a premium. What’s more SocGen is itself on something of a roll. Its share price is up 42% in the past year. If anything it is looking to do...