Date: 31st May 2017
Author: BETTER FINANCE, BETTER FINANCE

Azione MPS, the Association of Small Individual Shareholders and member of CONAPA, sent out a letter today addressed to the Public Authorities of the European Union and of the Italian Republic. The letter points to the main contradictions at the heart of the forced state intervention in the listed company Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (precautionary recapitalisation with burden sharing) that goes against the rules and principles of Commercial Law as well as the policies pursued by the European Commission towards the creation of the Single Capital Market and which will mainly cause detriment to over 150,000 Small Shareholders who collectively own more than 55% of the Company.