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Posted on September 22, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Add as preferred source on GoogleMonte dei Paschi acquires 86.3% of Mediobanca in a unique bid, potentially leading to full control and delisting.
MILAN (Reuters) -Monte dei Paschi di Siena has secured 86.3% of Mediobanca, bourse data showed, as a bid dubbed by a top Italian financial executive as "the most exotic" in the current round of dealmaking ended on Monday.
The high take-up, which sharply reduces the size of Mediobanca's floating capital, makes it more likely that the state-backed Tuscan bank will opt to take full control of the newly acquired rival and delist its shares from the stock exchange.
(Reporting by Valentina Za; Editing by Crispian Balmer)
Monte dei Paschi di Siena has secured 86.3% of Mediobanca.
The high take-up sharply reduces the size of Mediobanca's floating capital.
It makes it more likely that the state-backed Tuscan bank will opt to take full control of the newly acquired rival.
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