Carlo Cimbri, chairman of Unipol, Bper's majority shareholder with a stake of nearly 20 percent, said this.
"Bper has its own growth path, has recently changed top management and has a delineated future ahead of it," Cimbri said at an event, responding to a question about a possible interest in Mps.
"There is nothing in Bper's immediate future; then the market is made of discontinuities and opportunities are created," he added.
(Elvira Pollina, reporting Andrea Mandalà, editing Gianluca Semeraro)