<div>UPDATE 1-Italy's Cerved hires Mediobanca to study options for bad loan unit</div> <!-- no image --> <div>Italian credit data and information group Cerved has hired Mediobanca as an adviser to study options for its bad loan unit, as the market gears up for consolidation.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=4JzqZmG7kXE:PYSJj9XnLko:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=4JzqZmG7kXE:PYSJj9XnLko:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=4JzqZmG7kXE:PYSJj9XnLko:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=4JzqZmG7kXE:PYSJj9XnLko:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=4JzqZmG7kXE:PYSJj9XnLko:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/4JzqZmG7kXE" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters