UniCredit Group is ranked among the top European banking groups in terms of market capitalisation.

Its Markets & Investment Banking Division (MIB) is the competence centre for all financial markets and investment banking activities across UniCredit Group's legal entities. It is an integral part of UniCredit Group, leveraging off the existing Group platform and client franchises serving as the Group's access to the capital markets. The combination of the investment banking businesses of Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG and former Capitalia S.A. results in a highly complementary international investment banking platform.

UniCredit Group offers the combination of one of the oldest investment banking networks in Emerging Europe (with local investment banking offices in the major centres) and an outstanding expertise. As a regional specialist, the Markets & Investment Banking Division offers fully-fledged investment banking services in UniCredit Group's 22 core countries supported by an international platform of core competence products including Acquisition & Leveraged Finance, Project & Commodity Finance, Capital Markets, M&A, Principal Investments, Structured Derivatives, Fixed Income, Currencies, Equities, and Research.

Aiming to further enhance the quality of customer service in Austria and Emerging Europe, UniCredit Group will bundle and integrate the major markets and investment banking activities of Bank Austria within UniCredit CAIB AG (UniCredit CAIB) by 1 October 2008. Based in Vienna, the 100-percent subsidiary of Bank Austria runs the institutional equity business, research, as well as merchant banking and trading activities with institutional counterparties. With its wide-spread network across Emerging Europe, UniCredit CAIB is one of the leading players in the M&A advisory and equity capital markets business in the region.