Rome is concerned that Italian banks, which are saddled with 360 billion euros ($400 billion) of bad loans, a third of the euro zone's total, risk attacks by hedge funds betting that Brexit turmoil could tip them into full-blown crisis.
(Reporting by Robert-Jan Bartunek; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)EU Commission will do everything to prevent bank run: EU's Juncker
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