Monte Paschi Offers to Buy BPM, Banca Generali for €34 Billion
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA is seeking to buy two separate banks for a combined value of €34 billion ($40 billion) as it seeks to prevent being bought by rival Intesa Sanpaolo SpA.
We haven't written up this one. Bloomberg has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.