Well, I have news for Unicredit's rather out of touch management, in that case: since I've been following the story since it started, I can confirm that Unicredit is definitely the bank in question. The former risk manager first shows up in comments on a story in The Guardian on 17 th November, then in a now-deleted comment to another Ireland story by the WSJ a couple of weeks later, which didn't name the bank, but included enough detail (from memory: Italian bank with German connections, US East coast asset management sub) to identify Unicredit Ireland, unambiguously. But that sleuthing, and much of my subsequent digging into Unicredit, is moot now, since I have been scooped. I was far too slow, so here I am, adorning Village's excellent piece. Go and read it; there is tons more on Unicredit and on the Irish financial services scene.