The FINANCIAL -- Further to the Shareholders’ Meeting which took place on May 11, 2012, the Board of Directors of UniCredit convened and appointed as Chairman of the Board Mr. Giuseppe Vita and confirmed Mr. Federico Ghizzoni as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and General Manager of the Company with all the powers and authorizations previously given to him.

The FINANCIAL -- Wells Fargo & Company, announced that the NeighborhoodLIFTSM program, a major effort to help stabilize neighborhoods deeply affected by the foreclosure crisis, is coming to Florida.

The FINANCIAL -- The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a loan of US$80 million to the People’s Republic of China to help improve agriculture water management and to increase agriculture water productivity and incomes for 1.3 million farmers in Ningxia.

The FINANCIAL -- The World Bank ’s Board of Executive Directors today approved an innovative project designed to protect over 130,000 Senegalese citizens from recurrent floods and storm surges that have caused economic losses worth US$82 million and pushed poor people deeper into poverty.

The FINANCIAL -- The Western Union Company announced that the company will present at the J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference on May 16, 2012 in Boston.