Mediobanca Shareholders Seem to Be Warming Up to Prospect of MPS Tie-Up -- Market Talk

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Aug 21, 2025

1527 GMT - The tide has now turned in the favor of Monte dei Paschi, Mergermarket's head of analytics for EMEA says. The Italian bank is pursuing a takeover of its peer Mediobanca, which itself wanted to buy Banca Generali to bolster its wealth-management activities and fend off the approach. However, Mediobanca's shareholders rejected the board's proposal at a meeting on Thursday. "The vote on Banca Generali was a referendum on Mediobanca's standalone strategy and shareholders have now made their views clear on that point," William Cain says. Mediobanca investors seem to be warming up to the idea of a combination with MPS, an outcome which looked like a long shot when it was first announced late January. This is despite the fact that Mediobanca's shares are currently trading above MPS's offer price, he adds. (elena.vardon@wsj.com)

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