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Isabel dos Santos proposes merger of BCP and BPI
3 hours ago
Millennium BCP, Portugal's largest listed bank, confirmed on Tuesday that it had received a letter from Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the president of Angola, "promoting a merger" between BCP and Banco BPI, already the target of a full takeover bid by Spain's Caixabank.
Ms dos Santos, one of Africa's richest women and the second largest shareholder in BPI, is also understood to have written to the chief executives of Caixabank and BPI proposing that the boards of BCP and BPI jointly consider a merger to create what would be Portugal's dominant lender,
writes Peter Wise.
BCP said it was prepared to consider such a merger if BPI was also ready examine the proposal.
Sonangol, Angola's state oil company, is by far the biggest shareholder in BCP with 20 per cent. If a BCP-BPI merger were to go ahead, Angolan investors would probably be the biggest shareholders in the new entity.
However, a potential merger between BCP and BPI would have to clear massive regulatory hurdles, given that both BCP and BPI received state aid during Portugal's recent bailout and that BPI is seen as a leading contender to buy Novo Banco, the "good bank" created out of the ruins of Banco Espírito Santo, which collapsed last year
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