Italy Races To Arrange €5 Billion Bailout For Monte Paschi Before Friday’s Stress Test

Italy Races To Arrange €5 Billion Bailout For Monte Paschi Before Friday’s Stress Test:

Italy is scrambling to secure a privately-backed bailout of Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the most exposed of the country’s troubled lenders, including a plan to raise €5bn of fresh capital so as to avert nationalisation, the FT reports. The bank needs to obtain some €5 bilion in capital ahead of Friday’s stress test, or else a dire “contagion” scenario could unfold that could impair not only all Italian banks, but promptly spread first to France and then to Germany…

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