据克劳迪娅·科恩和索尼亚·西尔莱蒂报道，法国农业信贷银行首席执行官奥利维耶·加瓦尔达表示，该行拒绝了蒙特帕斯基银行对班科BPM的收购提议。
Agricole SA Chief Executive Officer Olivier Gavalda said the firm rejected Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA’s bid for Banco BPM SpA.
加瓦尔达在周四于法兰克福举行的新闻发布会上称：“我们决定不参与此次收购竞标。”
“We decided” not to offer its shares into the bid, Gavalda said Thursday at a press conference in Frankfurt.
此前，蒙特帕斯基银行首席执行官路易吉·洛瓦利奥计划分别发起对班科BPM和班科杰内拉利银行的收购。然而周四早些时候，重要投资者弗朗西斯科·盖塔诺·卡尔塔吉罗内公开表示反对该计划。此外，蒙特帕斯基的两大股东——德尔芬和埃迪齐奥内控股公司也持类似立场，这使得反对洛瓦利奥计划的股东持股比例已接近三分之一。
The plan of Monte Paschi CEO Luigi Lovaglio to pursue separate bids for Banco BPM and Banca Generali SpA suffered a heavy blow earlier on Thursday when a top investor, Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone, said he’s opposed. Two other important Monte Paschi shareholders, the holding companies Delfin and Edizione, have made similar statements, bringing the total share capital opposed to Lovaglio’s proposals to almost one-third.
这一情况将极大增加洛瓦利奥在10月29日的股东大会上获得三分之二多数支持以推进收购计划的难度。
That will make it very difficult for the Monte Paschi CEO to achieve the two-thirds majority he needs at an Oct. 29 shareholder meeting to go ahead with his deals.
目前法国农业信贷银行持有班科BPM近30%的股份，是其最大股东。该法国银行一直倾向于与这家意大利银行实施合并。
Credit Agricole owns just under 30% in Banco BPM, making it the largest shareholder. The French bank has said it would prefer a merger with the Italian lender with its own operations in the country.
据知情人士透露，法国农业信贷银行此前一直在研究包括收购在内的多种方案。加瓦尔达当时表示，他将在10月29日股东大会结果出炉后再作最终决定。
Credit Agricole has been weighing a range of options for Banco BPM including a potential acquisition, people familiar with the matter said previously. Gavalda was waiting for the outcome of the Oct. 29 meeting before making a decision on the matter, they said at the time.