Breakingviews - COMMENTARY: Italian saga may have French kingmaker, or pooper ↧ ↧ Breakingviews - COMMENTARY: Italian saga may have French kingmaker,... Crédit Agricole owns 30% of Banco BPM, which faces ​a takeover offer from €35 ​bln Monte dei Paschi. If the ⁠Gallic group resists, the ​latter may fall to Intesa ​Sanpaolo. CrédAg CEO Olivier Gavalda could extract a juicy premium, or even ​do some Milanese-style dealmaking of ​his own.