By Anna Ferrari ( September 16, 2026, 16:16 GMT | Insight) -- Italian banking group Intesa Sanpaolo’s proposed takeover of rival MPS could significantly impede competition in deposit-taking, lending, savings-management and insurance markets, Italy’s watchdog said in opening an in-depth investigation. The fate of 190 MPS bank branches that Intesa has offered to divest has yet to be decided, while it will examine whether Intesa’s prospective indirect links with Assicurazioni Generali could weaken competition.Italian banking group Intesa Sanpaolo’s proposed takeover of rival Monte dei Paschi, or MPS, could significantly impede competition in deposit-taking, lending, savings-management and insurance markets, Italy’s competition authority has said in its decision opening an in-depth investigation (see here)....
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