Politics in and out of the boardroom
Monte dei Paschi looks to the future
ON JULY 12 2006, Mario Draghi, the governor of the Banca d’Italia, gave a speech at the annual meeting of the Associazione Bancaria Italiana in which he urged the chairmen and managing directors of Italy’s banks to consolidate for their own good or look on as foreign players took an even greater share of the market.
After the takeovers of Antonveneta by ABN Amro and Banca Nazionale de Lavoro by BNP Paribas, completed earlier in the year, Italian bankers hardly needed reminding of the problem by the central bank governor.
Clearly, though, his audience must have been paying close attention.
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