(Alliance News) - The board of directors of MPS is expected to approve the 2026 calendar on Thursday the 22nd, a pivotal year for the bank, La Repubblica reported on Friday.
By mid-March, both the industrial plan for the group with Mediobanca—requested by the European Central Bank—and the list of candidates that the outgoing board will propose to the shareholders' meeting on April 16 for the renewal of the top management must be presented.
This phase is marked by intense discussions between CEO Luigi Lovaglio, the board, and major shareholders, with Delfin joined by Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone, who holds 10.26% of the capital. Tensions also surfaced at the latest meeting of the MPS nominations committee, when a passage was included in the draft regulating the "board list" process, prohibiting individuals under criminal investigation from engaging with shareholders during the candidate selection process.
According to financial sources, the rule aims to protect the bank from future issues by preventing governance contacts between individuals under investigation in Milan for alleged concerted action in the Mediobanca takeover, including Lovaglio himself and shareholders Milleri and Caltagirone. In listed companies that adopt the board list, it is usually the chairman who consults shareholders about nominations, and in Siena, if the board on the 22nd approves the text, this task should fall to Nicola Maione. The same meeting is also expected to select the headhunters for the list’s composition.
This move is seen as a sign of weakening for Lovaglio, while the integration plan to be presented by March remains in the background. Certainties are few and, according to sources close to the matter, the only one so far is that Mediobanca will remain independent and listed, contrary to what Lovaglio indicated to the market and Consob on January 24, when he launched the OPS promising EUR700 million in merger synergies.
By Antonio Di Giorgio, Alliance News reporter
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