By Anna Ferrari ( October 23, 2026, 15:44 GMT | Insight) -- Italian banking group Intesa Sanpaolo may need behavioral remedies to keep its prospective indirect Generali stake purely financial under its proposed MPS takeover, the Italian competition authority's president said. Branch sales as structural remedies remain the required solution for major local overlaps, but behavioral measures can be appropriate in below-threshold deals where companies have few assets to divest, Saverio Valentino said.Italian banking group Intesa Sanpaolo may need behavioral remedies to ensure that a prospective indirect stake in Assicurazioni Generali, Italy’s largest ensurer, arising from its proposed acquisition of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena remains a “merely financial investment,” the president of the Italian competition authority has said....
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