Agricultural, discussions with Bpm with determination, strong potential

"Crédit Agricole faces these discussions with enthusiasm and determination, convinced of the strategic interest and strong value creation potential of the project, for the benefit of customers, collaborators, shareholders and the Italian economy". Banque Verte underlines this in a note after the opening of Piazza Meda.

"This new phase is part of the natural continuity of numerous exchanges and long-standing fruitful cooperation, based on mutual trust and common values", adds the French institute.

"This merger project aims to combine the complementary strengths of Banco Bpm and Crédit Agricole Italia, to build together a more solid, more diversified and more innovative Italian banking and financial group, which combines closeness and strength, Italian identity and European dimension, territorial roots and investment capacity", recalls Agricole who in announcing the proposal indicated that the objective is to create "a new national banking champion".