Global Best equity-linked house: JPMorgan

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When Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the oldest bank in the world, wound up with unwanted treasury shares as an indirect result of its acquisition of Banca Agricola Mantovana, the Italian bank faced a dilemma: it wanted to get rid of the shares to avoid the negative impact on its tier 1 capital, but didn’t want to send the wrong message to investors by selling its own stock.