Mps could close an agreement today to sell 60% of Biverbanca, the Piedmontese bank put on the market in recent months. Milano Finanza writes it, arguing that the majority package should go to the Asti savings bank, with the consent of the bank's current minorities. It would be a shot in the arm for Montepaschi, which still has to find a billion euros by June 30 to adapt to the EBA parameters.
Meanwhile, the Mps share on the stock market earns almost three and a half points in the middle, leading the rises of the Ftse Mib.
The managing director Fabrizio Viola has also put a package of 150-200 Antonveneta branches on the market, but longer times are expected for this match. In addition to the sales, MPS is allegedly considering the issue of CoCo bonds for at least 700 million, while the hypothesis of an intervention by the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti or the Treasury, which someone in Rome has also begun to probe, seems decidedly more remote.
Furthermore, according to Il Mondo, among the hypotheses under study there would also be the possibility that Bankitalia buys back the 2,5% that Monte dei Paschi owns in the capital of the institution.
