The Bank of Italy and the ECB have given the go-ahead for the purchase of 99,3% of Interprovincial Bank by Spaxs. This was announced in a press release Special purpose acquisition company led by Corrado Passera.
" business combination with Banca Interprovinciale - we read - it represents the first important step in the project to create a specialized, fully digital bank with an innovative business model and a clear focus on specific, very dynamic and relatively still underserved segments of the Italian SME market". .
The ordinary and extraordinary shareholders' meeting of Spaxs for the approval of the operation of business combination is called for 8 August.
The terms of the operation had been specified by Spaxs last April.