Banco Bpm and Amco they would be ready to get their hands on Bff Bank. He reveals it Mf, according to which Piazza Meda and the Treasury servicer are about to present a expression of interest for the institute specialized in factoring and once again in the sights of the Bank of Italy, which at the end of March sent two commissioners, Francesco Fioretto and Raffaele Lener, to join the board led by CEO Giuseppe Sica.
Stew hypothesis
After the proposal for a marriage between equals sent to MPS, which was then quickly overtaken by Intesa Sanpaolo's massive offer of over €30 billion, also for Siena, Banco BPM has no intention of sitting idly by. And while awaiting possible developments regarding the future, which could include a marriage with Crédit Agricole Italia or a possible rekindling of relations with Unicredit, Piazza Meda is once again a predator.
The bank led by Giuseppe Castagna would be ready to take over Bff's payment services and custodian bank, which in the first quarter achieved a gross profit of 14 million euros (+25%). Amco would instead be in charge of factoring, which in the first three months of the year recorded adjusted pre-tax profits of €37 million (+2%). It is precisely this latter division that the Supervisory Authority on Via Nazionale has turned its attention to after a lengthy inspection that led BFF to rewrite its 2025 accounts and reclassify €1,36 billion in loans to comply with the EU definition of default.
Banco BPM launches new €1,5 billion credit line for businesses
Meanwhile, Banco Bpm has announced the launch of a new ceiling of 1,5 billion intended to "finance investments in new tangible and intangible capital goods, functional to the digital and ecological transformation, which benefit from the recent measure introduced by the government to promote the competitiveness of the production system". The initiative, explains a note, "is aimed at companies of all economic sectors and sizes, with particular attention to small and medium-sized enterprises, which represent the heart of the national productive fabric and constitute a strategic component of the bank's clientele."
